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Nay, already it is altogether a defect among you (ēdē men oun holōs hēttēma humin estin). “Indeed therefore there is to you already (to begin with, ēdē, before any question of courts) wholly defeat.” Hēttēma (from hēttaomai) is only here, Rom 11:12; Isa 31:8 and ecclesiastical writers. See hēttaomai (from hēttōn, less) in 2Co 12:13; 2Pe 2:19. Nikē was victory and hētta defeat with the Greeks. It is defeat for Christians to have lawsuits (krimata, usually decrees or judgments) with one another. This was proof of the failure of love and forgiveness (Col 3:13).
Take wrong (adikeisthe). Present middle indicative, of old verb adikeō (from adikos, not right). Better undergo wrong yourself than suffer defeat in the matter of love and forgiveness of a brother.
Be defrauded (apostereisthe). Permissive middle again like adikeisthe. Allow yourselves to be robbed (old verb to deprive, to rob) rather than have a lawsuit.