{That gratulation of yourselves} (ho makarismos hum(936e)).
"Your felicitation." Rare word from makariz(935c), to pronounce
happy, in Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch. See also Ro 4:6,9 . You no
longer felicitate yourselves on my presence with you. {Ye would
have plucked out your eves and given them to me} ( ous
ophthalmous hum(936e) exoruxantes ed(936b)ate moi). This is the
conclusion of a condition of the second class without an
expressed which would have made it clearer. But see Joh
16:22,24 Ro 7:7 for similar examples where the context makes it
plain without an. It is strong language and is saved from
hyperbole by "if possible" (ei dunaton). Did Paul not have at
this time serious eye trouble?
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