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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the First Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians is unavailable, but you can change that!

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last of them St Paul prepares the way for a return to positive characteristics. 7. πάντα στέγει. The meaning of the verb is somewhat uncertain. It occurs only Ecclus. 8:17 in LXX, of the fool who will not be able to conceal the matter, λόγον στἐξαι: and only here, 9:12, and 1 Thess. 3:1, 5 in N.T. ‘Covereth,’ and so ‘excuseth’ would make sense here, but not such good sense as the other meaning of the verb, ‘is proof against,’ and so ‘forbeareth, endureth,’ which seems to be the meaning in all
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