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14. ἐμοὶ δὲ. Emphatic position for contrast with those of whom he has just spoken.
μὴ γένοιτο. With dative[170], see Gen 44:7; Jos 24:16 and cf. Mat 15:28.
[170] Is affixed to a word it means that all the passages are mentioned where that word occurs in the New Testament.
καυχᾶσθαι εἰ μὴ ἐν τῷ σταυρῷ κ.τ.λ. Which the false leaders dread (Gal 6:12). Luther strangely understands the phrase to mean our sufferings for Christ. Chrysostom is especially good here.
διʼ οὖ. The antecedent is probably σταυρός, cf. Gal 5:24. It was this in which he boasted.
ἐμοὶ (emphatic as before). κόσμος, “the world.” Anarthrous as in 2Co 5:19; 2Pe 2:5; Rom 4:13. But although as a translation “a world” is somewhat grossly inaccurate, yet the absence of the article (occurring, as this does, so very frequently with κόσμος) does suggest that the world at present, by its very constitution, is contrary to spiritual things. For the thought of the passage cf. Php 3:7. “The world … is to me like yon felon slave, nailed to the cross, dying by a certain and shameful, if a lingering death. And I too am so regarded by the world” (Perowne).
ἐσταύρωται κἀγὼ κόσμῳ. Chrys. writes οὐδὲν τῆς νεκρώσεως ταύτης μακαριώτερον· αὕτη γάρ ἐστι τῆς μακαρίας ζωῆς ἡ ὑπόθεσις. Contrast the power of the world mentioned in Gal 4:3.