Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

2 Corinthians 8:23

εἴτε ὑπὲρ Τίτου κ. τ. λ.: whether you ask about Titus (cf. on 2 Corinthians 1:8 for this use of ὑπέρ), he is my colleague and my fellow worker to you ward (for him St. Paul will be personally responsible), or our brethren, they are the envoys of Churches, i.e., they were duly χειροτονηθέντες (2 Corinthians 8:19). The term ἀπόστολος is generally used by St. Paul as a technical term; but occasionally, as here, and at Philippians 2:25 (of Epaphroditus) and (possibly) at Romans 16:7, he uses it in its primitive etymological meaning of “envoy” or “emissary” (cf. 1 Kings 14:6). These men are further described as δόξα Χριστοῦ, the glory of Christ, perhaps because their work is so specially ad majorem Dei gloriam (see 2 Corinthians 8:19 and 2 Corinthians 9:13).

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