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2Co 10:16. Εἰς, to) or in relation to. The antitheses are, in the places beyond you, and, as to the things (places) that are ready to our hand.-τὰ ὑπερέκεινα, those places, which are beyond) to which no person has yet come with the Gospel, towards the south and west; for he had come from Athens to Corinth, Act 18:1.-οὐκ ἐν ἀλλοτρίῳ, not in another man’s) The antithesis is, according to our rule [2Co 10:15].-εἰς) to intrude ourselves by boasting into [as to] those things (places) which are ready to our hand.-ἓτοιμα, ready. It denotes even more than ἡτοιμασμένα.[71]
[71] Made ready for an occasion. But ἓτοιμα in a state of readiness, habitually ready.-ED.