ye the woman ?]. — p-qbtig vapexsru, let no man cause me) Herein there is 'Acroro/A/a, severity r, by virtue of his authority as an apostle. — syu 70^, for /) Affliction should not be added to the afflicted. — ra <rr/7/>t,ara, the marks) from the lash, Acts xvi. 23. These marks of stripes rendered Paul infamous in the eyes of the world, but in reality conferred on him great dignity, for by these he was known to be a servant of Christ. Marks in the body are opposed to the mark of circumcision, the body of Paul [himself] to the flesh of others, ver. 13 [the false teachers " glorying in the flesh" of their followers when circum cised]. — rou Kup/oD, of the Lord) Col. i. 24, " of the afflictions of Christ." — jSa<rra£«, I bear) so that I consider it an honour to me, ver. 14. Therefore they will be disagreeable to me, who please themselves in any other way.1
18. *H %«p/s, grace) This is in consonance with the whole epistle. — ftsra rov wvevftarof vpuv, with your spirit) having van quished the flesh, ver. 1 ; comp. 1 Thess. v. 23 ; 2 Tim. iv. 22 ; Philem. ver. 25. — a&Xpo/, brethren) The severity of the whole epistle is thus softened ; comp. i. 6, note.
1 Who seek occasion for glorying in anything but the Cross of Christ. —ED.
1. 0gX^//,aro£, the will} So ver. 5, 9, 11. — ro/g ay/o/$ ro/g ouov, xa/ Tc, to the saints and faithful, who are) in all those places to which Tychicus went with this epistle. It appears from the records quoted in the Apparatus, that no city was mentioned by name1 in this inscription, whence some have supplied Lao- dicea (although all that had a separate reference to the Lao- diceans, was explained by Paul in the epistle written to the Colossians about the same time, ch. iv. 15, 16) ; others, Ephesus : either of them might be before the mind of the apostle; for Paul no doubt told Tychicus whither he should go, — to Lao- dicea, for example, and thence to Colosse, which was in the neighbourhood of Laodicea, and either first or last to Ephesus. Wherefore our annotations are now and then specially applic able to the Ephesians. Nevertheless, in this passage, rol'c, olffiv, i.e. those who are present,2 is said absolutely, as Acts xiii. 1,
1 Lachm. reads !:/ ' E<p£o-&>, with AD(A)Gy^ Vulg. and marg. of B corrected later ; but B omits it, and Jerome, 7,545a, attests that Origen did not know of the words. Basil mentions that old fathers before his time in some ancient copies omitted them. Marcion in Tertullian is accused of having added ad Laodicenos. Jerome says, that some suppose the saints at Ephesus were addressed by a title, or " vocdbulum essentice, so that those who are should be so called from Him who is ;" whilst others read simply " those who are at Ephesus." — ED.
2 The saints that there are. — ED.