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That gratulation of yourselves (ho makarismos humōn). “Your felicitation.” Rare word from makarizō, to pronounce happy, in Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch. See also Rom 4:6, Rom 4:9. You no longer felicitate yourselves on my presence with you.
Ye would have plucked out your eves and given them to me (tous ophthalmous humōn exoruxantes edōkate moi). This is the conclusion of a condition of the second class without an expressed which would have made it clearer. But see Joh 16:22, Joh 16:24; Rom 7:7 for similar examples where the context makes it plain without an. It is strong language and is saved from hyperbole by “if possible” (ei dunaton). Did Paul not have at this time serious eye trouble?