[Sidenote: Ver. 25.] =But to Him who is able to establish you, according to my Gospel, and the proclamation of,= made by, =Jesus Christ, true to (κατὰ) (the) unveiling of (the) Secret hushed in silence during ages of times,= [Sidenote: Ver. 26.] =but manifested now, and through (the) prophetic Scriptures, according to the edict of the God of Ages, for faith's obedience, published among all the Nations=--[Sidenote: Ver. 27.] =to God Only Wise, through Jesus Christ--to whom be the glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen.=
[259] See on προστάτις below.
[260] See 1 Cor. xvi. 19.
[261] Pp. 171-178 (eighth edition).
[262] Lit., "_did prove_": it is the epistolary aorist.
[263] Read Πρίσκαν not Πρίσκιλλαν.
[264] By the late Dean Howson, in Smith's _Bible Dictionary_.
[265] So certainly read, not Ἀχαΐας.
[266] Reading ὑμᾶς.
[267] The perfect, γέγονασι, γέγοναν, imports the permanence of their blessed position, up to the date.
[268] See above, p. 425, on this allusion, and on _Herodion_, and on "_Narcissus' people_."
[269] In our short Commentary on the Epistle in _The Cambridge Bible_ we advocate a rather different view of these verses in detail. But the main reference seems to us to be what it then seemed.
[270] Ver. 24 is probably to be omitted, as an insertion after date.
[271] Gal. vi. 11: "See with _what great letters_ I have written to you, _in autograph_!" It has been remarked that this great Doxology bears a literary likeness to other passages which he probably wrote with his own hand.
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