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2Co_7:4. A further, and that a psychological, proof for the οὐ πρ . κατάκρ . λέγω .
παῤῥησία is the internal frame of mind, the good joyous confidence (see on Eph_3:12), without which no καύχησις , no self-boasting for the sake of the readers, would outwardly take place ( ὑπέρ , as in 2Co_5:12, 2Co_8:24). To take it of the libertas loquendi (Pelagius, Beza, Luther, Vatablus, Cornelius a Lapide, and many others, including Schrader and Ewald) is inappropriate, because by the παῤῥησία in this sense there would be no negation of πρὸς κατάκρ . λέγειν . And the taking the καύχησις of inward boasting before God (Osiander), ought to have been precluded by 2Co_7:14, comp. 2Co_9:3.
πεπληρ . κ . τ . λ .] The two clauses form a climax, so that πεπλ . is correlative with ὑπερπερ . and παρακλ . with χαρᾃ . In the use of the article with παρακλ . and χαρᾷ Paul already looks to the special comfort and joy, of which he intends to speak further (2Co_7:7). The dative of the instrument (as at 2Ma_5:5; 2Ma_7:21; 3Ma_4:10) is used with πληρ . in the N. T. also at Rom_1:29, and in classic Greek, though seldom. See Elmsley, ad Soph. Oed. Col. 16; Blomfield, Gloss. Aesch. Agam. 163; Bernhardy, p. 168. Comp. also Jacobs, ad Anthol. XI. p. 209.
ὑπερπερισσεύομαι ] I am exceeding richly provided with, Mosch. vi. 13; comp. the passive in Mat_13:12; Mat_25:29. The present sets forth the thing as still continuously taking plac.
ἐπὶ πάσῃ τῇ θλίψει ἡμ .] does not belong to τῇ χαρᾷ , but to the two whole affirmations πεπληρ . τῇ παρακλ . and ὑπερπερισσ . τῇ χαρᾷ ; and ἐπί is not, as Grotius thought, post, as in Herod. i. 45: ἐπʼ ἐκείνῃ τῇ συμφορῇ (see, generally, Wurm, ad Dinarch. p. 39 f.), since (comp. 2Co_1:3-11) the tribulation still continues, but in, at. See Winer, p. 367 [E. T. 490].