Ver. 12. ἀξίως in this connection (see references) was a familiar ethnic phrase. C. Michel (in his Recueil dinscriptions grecques, 1900, 266, 413) quotes two pre- Christian instances with τῶν 6edv.—eis τὸ, κ.τ.λ., grammatically meaning either the object or the content of the solemn charge (cf. Moulton, 218 f.). The ethic is dominated by the eschatology, as in 11. τον. 25. :
Vv. 13-16. Further thanksgiving for their endurance of trial.
Ver. 13. “' And for this we also render thanks, viz., that; the καί, by a loose but not unusual (cf. ΠΠ. 5; Rom. iii. 7, v. 3, etc.) construction, goes not with the pronoun but with the verb, or simply emphasises the former (e.g., Soph., Oed. Col., 53, 520, εἴς.).---τοῦ θεοῦ comes in so awk- wardly that one is tempted to regard it, with Baljon and some other Dutch critics, as a scribal gloss.
9- 17.
" ἐνεργεῖται ἐν ὑμῖν τοῖς πιστεύουσιν. ἐγενήθητε, ἀδελφοί, “ τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ τῶν οὐσῶν ἐν τῇ
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14. ὑμεῖς "γὰρ μιμηταὶ u “Is made opera-
tive’’ (cf.
Robin-
fol A A ~ a πα Ἰουδαίᾳ ἐν Χριστῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ, ὅτι τὰ αὐτὰ ἐπάθετε καὶ ὑμεῖς ὑπὸ τῶν son's
“ Ν ~ > , - + ἰδίων * συμφυλετῶν, 7 καθὼς καὶ αὐτοὶ ὑπὸ τῶν ᾿Ιουδαίων, 15. τῶν καὶ lol 4 A τὸν Κύριον ἀποκτεινάντων Ιησοῦν καὶ τοὺς * προφήτας } καὶ ἡμᾶς * ἐκ- , ‘ a Ne Ὁ 5 / κ a > θ ΄ > , διωξάντων καὶ Θεῷ μὴ " ἀρεσκόντων καὶ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἐναντίων, 16. “κωλυόντων ἡμᾶς τοῖς ἔθνεσι λαλῆσαι iva σωθῶσιν, “ εἰς τὸ
5 ἀναπληρῶσαι αὐτῶν τὰς ἁμαρτίας πάντοτε: ἐέἔφθασε δὲ ἐπ᾽ αὐτοὺς
ἡ © ὀργὴ ἢ εἰς τέλος].
17. Ἡμεῖς δέ, ἀδελφοί, ' ἀπορφανισθέντες ἀφ᾽ ὑμῶν πρὸς καιρὸν
ΠῚ k γι > δί 1 , > ὃ , Q / ωρας ( προσωπῳ ου καρ ia) περισσοτέρως εσπου ασαμεν TO προσ-
49 (Acts xvii. 5-14). Cf. 2 Cor. xi. 24, 26. Acts xvil. 5, xxii. 22. xii, 27 and Gen. xv. 16.
(Abbott, Joh. Gramm. 2322). 3; 2 Cor. v. 12. 1 Gal. i. 14; 2 Cor. i. 12.
b 1 Cor. x. 33.
d Cf. Burton, M.T. 411 and Moult. i. 219. f Cf. Phil. iii. 16, etc.
h “ Utterly, completely’ (Ps. Sol. i. 1, ii. 5; Joseph. B.
i Here only (N.T.): =“ bereft,” cf. Field 199 f.
Ephes. pp. 241 f.).
v Proof and result of ἐνεργεῖ- ται.
« w Gal. i. 22; 2 Cof.1. 1.
x Only here in N.T. = ‘*com- patriots”.
y = ἅπερ.
z Matt. v. 12, XXiii. 34, etc.
a So Lk. xi.
Cf. on Eph. ii. 12. Ὁ χι. 52;
e 2 Macc. vi. 14. Cf. Sap.
g Lk. xiv. 21, xxi. 23. Cf.on Rom. i. 18.
J. vii. 8, 1), alm. = ‘‘to the bitter end”
k 1 Cor. v.
10m. the Syrian interpolation ιδιους with ΑΒ ΟΡ (min.), sah., cop., arm., aeth., Orig., Euth., edd., as an insertion by Marcion (Tert., cf. Nestle’s Einf. 253)
before προφητας.
Ver. 14. μιμηταί, and soon helpers (Rom. xv. 26). The fact that they were exposed to persecution, and bore it manfully, proved that the gospel was α power in their lives, and also that they were in the legitimate succession of the churches. Such obstacles would as little thwart their course as they had thwarted that of Jesus or of his immediate followers. συμῷ. might in- clude Jews (Acts xvii. 6), but Gentiles predominate in the writer’s mind.—The καί after καθώς simply emphasises the comparison (as in iv. 5,13). As Calvin suggests, the Thessalonians may have wondered why, if this was the true re- ligion, it should be persecuted by the Jews, who had been God’s people. σ. is racial rather than local, but the local persecution may have still been due in part to Jews (cf. Zimmer, pp. 16 f.).
Ver. 15. ‘‘ The Lord, even Jesus” (cf. Acts ii. 36). προφ. may go either with ἀποκτ. or with ἐκδιωξάντων.
Ver. 16, κωλυόντων κ.τ.λ., defining (Luke xi. 52) from the Christian stand- point that general and familiar charge of hatred to the human race (ἐναντίων κ.τ.λ.) which was started by the exclu- siveness of the ghetto and the synagogue. --ἔφθασε κ.τ.λ., ‘the Wrath has come upon them,’’ apparently a reminiscence of Test. Levi. vi. 11. This curt and sharp verdict on the Jews sprang from Paul’s irritation at the moment. The apostle was in no mood to be concilia-