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1Th 2:8. Οὕτως, ἱμειρόμενοι ὑμῶν, εὐδοκοῦμεν) and seeing that it was so, i.e. inasmuch as we felt the strongest affection for you, we were ready, etc. The text has been at once suited for (pronunciationem) correct delivery, whilst in the marks of punctuation a more careful stopping of the sentence is equivalent to a note. The same word, ἱμείρονται, is found in Job 3:21. Εὐδοκοῦμεν, even without the augment, may still be the imperfect tense: in the whole[6] of Paul’s statement all the facts proceed in the preterite, which the versions here also retain.-ΨΥΧᾺς, souls) Our soul desired as it were to enter into your soul.
[6] In the last Ed. of the Gnomon, published at Berlin, and in the Tubingen Ed., 1773, I find nota instead of tota: the translation in that case would be, in a well-known narrative. Tota seems to suit the sense here.-TR.
Tota is the reading of Ed. 2, quarto, A.D. 1752, and is doubtless the true reading.-ED.