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2Co_6:11 to 2Co_7:1. After the episode in 2Co_6:3-10,[248] Paul turns with a conciliatory transition (2Co_6:11-13) to a special, and for the Corinthians necessary, form of the exhortation expressed in 2Co_6:1 (2Co_6:14-18). This is followed up in 2Co_7:1 by a general appeal, which embraces the whole moral duty of the Christian.
[248] The supposition that there is an abnormal, and in this respect certainly unexampled construction, under which ver. 11 should be taken as concluding the main clause along with “the preceding long-winded participial clause” (Hofmann), ought to have been precluded by the very consideration that that “long-winded” accumulation of participles, in which, however, Paul paints his whole life active and passive with so much enthusiasm, and, as it were, triumphant heroism, would stand utterly disproportioned to that which he says in ver. 11, and which is only a brief, gentle, kindly remark. What a magnificent preparation for such a little quiet sentence without substantial contents! The examples cited by Hofmann from Greek writers and the N. T. (Act_20:3; Mar_9:20) are too weak analogies. See regarding similar real anacolutha, Winer, p. 527 f. [E. T. 709 f.]. Comp. on Mar_9:20.