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2Co_4:3. Against the assertion just made, ἀλλὰ τῇ φανερώσει τῆς ἀληθείας … θεοῦ , it might be objected: “and yet your gospel is κεκαλυμμένον ! is by so many not at all known as the ἀλήθεια !” Wherefore Paul continues, “even if that were the case, still it is so only with regard to the ἀπολλύμενοι whom the devil has blinded, and hence cannot be urged against the former assertion.”
εἰ δὲ καὶ ἔστι κεκαλ .] In this admission the placing of ἔστι before κεκαλ . conveys the meaning: but if even it is the case that, etc. The figurative κεκαλ . was suggested by the still fresh remembrance of 2Co_3:14.
τὸ εὐαγγ . ἡμῶν ] the gospel preached by us, the Pauline gospel.
ἐν τοῖς ἀπολλυμ .] i.e. among those who (for certain) are liable to eternal ἀπώλεια . See on 2Co_2:15; 1Co_1:18. ἐν is not nota dativi (Flatt), nor yet quod attinet ad (Bengel), but inter, in their circle. Rückert takes it: in their hearts, on account of 2Co_3:15. So also Osiander. But against the analogy of 2Co_2:15; besides, according to 2Co_3:15, it is the heart of the ἀπολλύμενοι , and not the gospel, which must be represented as the veiled subject. It has not at all reached the hearts of the persons concerned.