... instructed to give you orally” (not, as in NIV, to write the same things to you again). The words emoi men ouk oknēron, hymin de asphales (“not irksome for me, and safe for you”) may well form an iambic trimeter (quoted by Paul from ... . hina … heurethō. For the use of the passive of heuriskein as a surrogate for the verb “to be” or “to become” cf. 2:7. See also E. D. Burton, The Epistle to the Galatians, p. 125 (in a note on Gal. 2:17). If it be asked at what time Paul hopes to be found in ...
