“Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.”
Where, then, is your blessed assurance of those days? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. — Paul appeals to their former intensity ('makarismos' — blessedness, the feeling of being blessed by his presence): they would have torn out their eyes for him (whether literal or hyperbolic), expressing lavish generosity and love, now vanished.
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