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2Co_11:15. It is not a great matter, therefore, not strange and extraordinary, if, etc. Comp. 1Co_9:11; Plato, Hipp. maj. p. 287 A, Menex. p. 235 D; Herod. vii. 38.
καί ] if, as he does himself, his servants also transform themselves, namely, as servants of righteousness, i.e. as people who are appointed for, and active in, furthering the righteousness by faith. Comp. on 2Co_3:9. The δικαιοσύνη , the opposite of ἀνομία , but in a specifically Christian and especially Pauline sense (comp. on 2Co_6:14) as the condition of the kingdom of God, is naturally that which Satan and his servants seek to counteract. When the latter, however, demean themselves as ἀπόστολοι Χριστοῦ , the δικαιοσύνη , which they pretend to serve, must have the semblance of the righteousness of faith, although it is not so in reality. This view is therefore not “out of the way” (Klöpper, p. 90), but contextual; and the δικαιοσύνη cannot be the righteousness of the law, the preaching of which is not the mark of the ἀπόστολοι Χριστοῦ . As to ὡς (transform themselves and become as), comp. on Rom_9:29.
ὧν τὸ τέλος κ . τ . λ .] of whom—the servants of Satan—the end, final fate, will be in accordance with their works. Comp. Php_3:19; Rom_6:21; 1Pe_4:17. “Quacunque specie se nunc efferant, detrahitur tandem schema,” Bengel.