Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Corinthians 1:7 - 1:7

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Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Corinthians 1:7 - 1:7


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So that ye come behind in no gift (hōste humas mē hustereisthai en mēdeni charismati). Consecutive clause with hōste and the infinitive and the double negative. Come behind (hustereisthai) is to be late (husteros), old verb seen already in Mar 10:21; Mat 19:20. It is a wonderful record here recorded. But in 2Co 8:7-11; 2Co 9:1-7 Paul will have to complain that they have not paid their pledges for the collection, pledges made over a year before, a very modern complaint.

Waiting for the revelation (apekdechomenous tēn apokalupsin). This double compound is late and rare outside of Paul (1Co 1:7; Gal 5:5; Rom 8:19, Rom 8:23, Rom 8:25; Phi 3:20), 1Pe 3:20; Heb 9:28. It is an eager expectancy of the second coming of Christ here termed revelation like the eagerness in prosdechomenoi in Tit 2:13 for the same event. “As if that attitude of expectation were the highest posture that can be attained here by the Christian” (F.W. Robertson).