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2Co 11:28. Χωρὶς, beside) The particle serves the purpose of connection.-τῶν παρεκτὸς) It is thus he terms external labours and troubles. Hitherto he describes his own; he now refers to those of others, that had been shared with him.-ἡ) The Apposition of the oblique and nominative case, such as that of Basil of Seleucia, ὢ φωνῆς, σωτηρίας πηγή: comp. note on Chrys. de Sacerd. p. 504.-ἐπισύστασίς μου, that which cometh upon me) The LXX. often use the verb ἐπισυνίστημι, and the verbal noun ἐπισύστασις, of the sedition of Korah and his associates: comp. Act 24:12. Here therefore we remark the disorderly conduct of those, who troubled Paul by the perverseness of their doctrine or life; for example, Gal 6:17.-καθʼ ἡμέραν, daily) A large extent of time; and of place, in the words, of all.-πασῶν, of all) This is more modest than if he had said πάσης τῆς ἐκκλησίας, of the whole church. Of all, of those even, to whom I have not come, Col 2:1. Peter could not have alleged that of himself in an equal degree.[81]
[81] Since Peter was the apostle of the circumcision peculiarly. Whereas Paul was, of all the numerous churches of the uncircumcision.-ED.