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2Co 13:2. Προείρηκα καὶ προλἐγω, I told you before and I tell you beforehand) Refer to the former the words, as if I were present the second time; to the latter, the words, being now absent. He seriously forewarns them. There is in the text, which excludes the word γράφω as an inferior reading,1[90] an uninterrupted chiasmus throughout theesdras three members of the sentence, in the following order:
[90] ABD (Λ) corrected later, Gfg Vulg. reject γράφω. Rec. Text supports it without any of the oldest authorities for it.-ED.
and I tell beforehand I told before,
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as if I were present the second time and (viz. no doubt when he had come to the neighbourhood towards Corinth, and had already determined to go thither himself also, although he afterwards forbore), and being absent now
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to those who have heretofore sinned, namely before this second visit, and to all others, who afterwards sinned, after my second coming, and yet before my third.
-οὐ φείσομαι, I will not spare) He had formerly spared, 2Co 1:23.