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διὰ τοῦτο ἠλεήθην, ἵνα ἐν ἐμοὶ πρώτῳ | ἐνδείξηται Χριστὸς Ἰησοῦς i (of God) i om. ix, Ιὑποτύπωσιν τῶν μελλόντων τ7, 22. a - ες Eph. ii. 7. 17. τῷ δὲ " βασιλεῖ " τῶν k 2 πιο 2, ο΄. Col. i, 11, see 2 Tim. iii. 10, m John iv. 14, 36, vi. 27, xii. 25, Acts xiii. 48, Rom. v. 21, 1 Tim. n Tob. xiii. 6, 10, Enoch ix. 4, Rev. xv. 3, cf. 1 Tim, vi. 15. ο Wisd. p Col. i. 15, Heb. xi. 27. q John v. 44, Jude 25.
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2 Tim. i. 13 only, not LXX. vi. 12, Tit i. 2, lil. 7, etc. xii. I, Xviil. 4, Rom. i. 23.
150 AD, 17, 47, 80, six others, d, f, τ, vg., go., sah.; "Ino. Χριστ. SKLP, 37, sytr., boh., arm.
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5.1π5. σοφῷ ΣΦΟΌΡΟΚΤΙ,Ρ, go., syrhcl (from Rom. xvi. 27); om. σοφῷ N*AD*FG, 17, 37, one other, Latt., sah., boh., syrpesh,
whether I could be saved or was worth saving. But Christ had a special object in view in extending to me His mercy.”
διὰ τοῦτο, followed by ἵνα and refer- ring to what follows, occurs in Rom. iv. 16, 2 Cor. xiii. το, Eph. vi. 13, 2 Thess. ii. Στ Philemon το. see) also) Roms. ΧΙ. 6: ἐν ἐμοί is used as in Gal. i. 16, 24, and as ἐν ἡμῖν in 1 Cor. iv. 6. I was an object lesson in which Christ displayed the extent of His longsuffering.
πρώτῳ: Alford correctly says that the foll. μελλόντων proves that St. Paul here combines the senses first (A.V.) and as chief (R.V.).
THY ἅπασαν μακροθυμίαν: the utmost longsuffering which he has (Blass, Grammar, p. 162). Here r renders μακροθ. longanimitatem. Chrys., fol- lowed by Alf. and Ell., explains, “" Greater longsuffering He could not show in any case than in mine, nor find a sinner-that so required all His longsuffering; not a part only’. If there had been only one soul of sinful man to save, it would have needed the Incarnation to save that soul. In St. Paul’s case, conversion had been preceded by a long internal struggle on his part, and patience on Christ’s part: “It is hard for thee to kick against the goad”’. ἅπας only occurs in the Pauline epistles again in Eph. vi. 13. Its use “is confined principally to literary docu- ments”? (Moulton and Milligan, Ελβοςί- tor, vii. vi. 88).
πρὸς ὑποτύπωσιν τῶν μελλόντων: The use of the genitive here is paralleled exactly in 2 Peter ii 6, ὑπόδειγμα ped- λόντων ἀσεβεῖν, “an example unto those that should live ungodly’’; and 1 Cor. x. 6, ταῦτα δὲ τύποι ἡμῶν ἐγενήθησαν ; also 1 Tim. iv. 12, where see reff. It does not mean as R.V. (an ensample of them), that St. Paul was the first speci-
men of Jesus’ work of grace, but rather as A.V. (a pattern to them), that no one who ever afterwards hears the gra- cious invitation of Christ need hang back from accepting it by reason of the great- ness of his sin, when he has the example of St. Paul before him (so Chrys.). The ὑποτύπωσις, of course, is the whole transaction of St. Paul’s conversion in all its bearings, ad informationem eorum qui credituri sunt illi (Vulg.). Bengel compares Ps. xxxii. 5, 6, ‘‘ Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. For this let every one that is godly pray unto thee,” etc.