12. ἵνακριθῶσινπάντες] ‘ in order that they might all be judged,’ any idea of condemnation being derived from the context, and not from κριθῶσι per se: see Lft. Fresh Revision of Engl. N.T.3 p. 69 ff. for a full discussion of κρίνειν and its compounds. For κρίνω in its wider sense of ‘ resolve’ cf. P.Grenf. 1. 30, 5 f. (2./b.c.) διὰγραμμάτωνἐκρίναμενσημῆναι. The reading πάντες is well-attested, but the stronger and rarer ἅπαντες (WH. mg.) has good grounds to be considered, both as less likely to be substituted by the copyists, and as better suiting the emphatic position here assigned to it. Beng.: ‘ late ergo et din et vehementer grassatur error ille.’ For the evidence (by no means decisive in the N.T., Blass p. 161) that in the Κοινή, as in Attic writers, the use of πᾶς or ἅπας was determined on the ground of euphony, πᾶς being found after a vowel, and ἅπας after a consonant, see Mayser p. 161 f. οἱμὴπιστεύσαντεςκτλ.] Cf. 1 Corinthians 13:6. By a usage characteristic of Bibl. writers (but cf. Polyb. 2:12. 2:3) εὐδοκεῖν (1 Thessalonians 2:8 note) is generally construed with ἐν, but here according to the best texts (àBDG as against àca.d.cKLP) it is followed by the simple dat. as in 1Ma 1:43, 1Es 4:39, Romans 1:32 (συνευδοκεῖν), and late writers generally (e.g. Polyb. 2:38. 7, 3:8. 7). The verb is found c. acc. Matthew 12:18, Hebrews 10:6, and with εἰς 2 Peter 1:17.For the general thought of the verse in Jewish literature cf. Apoc. Bar. 54:21 ‘ For at the consummation of the world there will be vengeance taken upon those who have done wickedness according to their wickedness, and Thou wilt glorify the faithful according to their faithfulness.’