εἰς τὰ ὑπερέκεινα κ. τ. λ.: so as to preach the Gospel in the regions beyond you, i.e. (if we are to press the idea of direction in ὑπερέκεινα), the western parts of Greece, Rome and Spain, which were “beyond,” if viewed from Jerusalem, the home of Christianity, whence St. Paul, like the other early preachers, received his “mission” (more probably, however, ὑπερέκεινα is used quite vaguely as ἐπέκεινα is in Amos 5:27, where the idea of direction cannot be read into it), and not to glory in another's “line” about things made ready to our hand. This is what the intruders had done at Corinth, whose Church St. Paul had founded (1 Corinthians 3:6).

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