Chamberlain (o/xovouos). See on Luke xvi.1. The word appears in the New Testament in two senses: 1. The slave who was employed to give the other slaves their rations. So Luke xii. 42. 2. The land-steward, as Luke xvi. 1. Probably here the administrator of the city lands.
25. This is the only epistle of Paul which closes with a dox- ology. The doxology (see on ch. xiv. 23) stands at the close of this chapter in most of the very oldest MSS., and in the Peshito or Syriac and Vulgate versions. In a very few MSS. it is omitted or erased by a later hand. In many MSS. including most of the cursives, it is found at the close of ch. xiv., and in a very few, at the close of both xiv. and xvi.* Weiss (‘“ Intro-
*See the discussion in Meyer’s textual note at the beginning of ch. xvi., and Farrar’s ‘‘ Paul,” ii., 170. Also Lightfoot’s article ‘‘ Romans,” in Smith’g “Dictionary of the Bible,” and supplement by Professor Ezra Abbot
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duction to the New Testament”) says that the attempt to prove its un-Pauline character has only been the result of extreme in- genuity.
Stablish (oryplEac). See on 1 Pet. v. 10.
Mystery. See on ch. xi. 25. The divine plan of redemption. The particular mystery of the conversion of the Gentiles, which is emphasized in Eph. ili. 3-9; Col. i. 26, is included, but the reference is not to be limited to this.
Kept secret (ceovynuévov). Rev., more accurately, kept un silence. In Eph. iii. 9; Col. i. 26, amoxexpuppévov hidden away, is used.
27. To whom. God, who, through Christ, appears as “the only wise.”
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