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of the sufferings of the Messiah. He had witnessed but at the last test refused to share them.—é...Kkotv@vés. Peter will share the future glory which Christ already enjoys for it was said to him, Thou shalt follow afterward (John xiii. 36). St. Paul has the same idea in a gnomic form, εἴπερ συνπάσχοµεν ἵνα καὶ συνδοξασθῶμεν (Rom. viii. 17; cf. 2 Cor. iv. 10) which presupposes familiarity with the teaching of the risen Jesus rhat the Christ must suffer and so enter into His glory, Luke xxiv. 46; cf. i. 5, 13, iv. 13.
Ver. 2. The command laid upon St. Peter, shepherd my sheep (John xxi. 19) became the charge delivered to succeed- ing elders (v. Acts xx. 28) and a familiar description of the Christian pastor (e.g., 1 Cor. ix. 7) who must copy the good Shepherd who obeyed where His prede- cessors fell short (Ez. xxxiv.)—tT6 ἐν ὑμῖν ποίµνιον τοῦ θεοῦ. Chris- tendom is God’s flock among you—not yours but God’s.—_avaykaoT@s. As
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ἐκουσίως, willingly—not as pressed men but as volunteers. In times of persecu- tion lukewarm elders might well regret their prominence; hence the need for the aphorism if any aspire to oversight he desireth a noble work (ιτ Tim. iii. 1). So of gifts of money St. Paul requires that they be μὴ ἐξ ἀνάγκης (2 Cor. ix. 7). It is possible that St. Paul’s words, ἀνάγκη por ἐπικεῖται (1 Cor. ix. 16) had been Ψτεςίεά.--αἰσχροκερδῶς. If the work be voluntarily undertaken, the worker has a reward according to St. Paul (1 Cor. ix. 16 f.). Base gainers are those who wish to make gain whence they ought not (Aristotle, Nic. Eth., v. 1, 43).— προθύµως. The adverb occurs in 2 Chron. xxix. 34, LXX, where the Levites eagerly purified themselves; Heb. the Levites upright of heartto . . . The verb προθυμεῖν is used in Chron. to render
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Ver 3. Application of the saying, the reputed rulers of the nations lord tt (κατα- κυριεύουσιν) over them . « . not so among you ; but whosoever would be great among you he shall be your servant . . . for the Son of Man came... to serve (Mark x. 42 f.).—_tT@v κλήρων, the lots, {.ε., the portions of the new Israel who fall to
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