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2Co 5:9. Διὸ καὶ, wherefore also) that we may obtain what we wish.-φιλοτιμούμεθα, we [labour] strive) This is the only φιλοτιμία, or lawful ambition.-εἰτε, whether) construed with we may be [accepted] well-pleasing. ἐνδημοῦντες, being at home) in the body.[27]
[27] Vulg. g and Syr. Versions, Origen Lucif. 151 read ἐκδημ. εἴτε ἐνδημ. But most MSS. and f have the order of Rec. Text.-ED.
The margin of both Ed. has settled the reading εἴτε ἐκδημοῦντες εἴτε ἐνδημοῦντες, inverting the order, as equal to the received reading of the text. But if the critical note (App. Ed. II. p. iv. nro. xiv. p. 896) be compared, the Author seems afterwards to have changed both the order and the meaning of the words, such as the Gnomon shows. For the Crit. Not. has ἐνδημοῦντες, going home, not being at home; and the Germ. Ver. reads Wir mogen in der Fremde seyn, (i.e. ἐκδημοῦντες) oder heimgehen (i.e. ἐνδημοῦντες.)-E. B.
ἐκδημοῦντες departing), i.e. out of the body.
-εὐάρεστοι, well pleasing) accepted especially in respect to the ministry.