1. To dixaiov xai T^V faorqra, justice and equity) Comp. ra airdc, [ye masters do] the same things [unto them], Eph. vi. 9, note.
2. T^ vpoffevxffl, in prayer) Eph. vi. 18.
3. 'H/zwv, for us) Ch. i. 1. — avoi^y dvpav roD Xoyou, would open the [but Engl. Vers. not of the mouth ; therefore, " a door"] door of utterance) i.e. the mouth, Eph. vi. 19 ; Mic. vii. 5. A great opportunity is elsewhere called a door [and so Engl. Vers. here], 1 Cor. xvi. 9. — dsds/^ai, 'iva pavspuffu, I am in bonds, that I may make it manifest*) a paradox ; as in 2 Tim. ii. 9 ; Phil, i. 12, 13.
1 O/ Kotrtpss, the fathers) The husband is the head of the wife ; where fore power is principally attributed to the fathers. — V. g.
2 But Engl. Vers. puts a colon after bonds ? so that 'iva is thus connected with woetvotsvoi, not BtS«w«*/. — ED.
4. 'fig, as) This depends on Xa>.5j<ya/? to speak, ver. 3.
5. 'Ev (rof>/a, w wisdom) Eph. v. 15, note.
6. riavrors, always'] Supply jjVw, /#£ i£ &<?. — Jc %a^/r/) joined spiritual grace, Eph. iv. 29. — «X«r/) imYA £Ae sa/£ of wisdom.
#r0 should be anything corrupt and tainted under it. — V. g.] — eld&vai) [by your knowing how]. The infinitive used as an ablative case.
7. T« xar s/ts, the things concerning me) Eph. vi. 21.
8. Tvu) ra <7rept V/AUV) yvojrs ra ffipi qpuv is found in Al. Colb. 7, etc. It has been transferred to this place from Eph. vi. 22. See App. Grit. Ed. ii.1 on this passage. The two epistles [Ephesians and Colossians] truly have many points of resem blance to one another, but yet so as that the things that need to be changed are changed in each respectively (mutatis mu tandis). And generally in parallelisms of this sort, which the officiousness of transcribers has mixed together [blending the parallel readings of two epistles into one], one reading in the one place, and another in the other, is the genuine reading. Tychicus, and through Tychicus (as it appears) Paul, was to learn the state of the Colossians (whence, instead of yvSj [third person, viz. Tychicus], yvu [first person, viz. Paul] may be also read), just as he learned the state of the Thessalonians through Timothy ; that of the Corinthians through Titus ; that of the Philippians through Epaphroditus ; and more especially did Paul wish to learn that of the Colossians, because he had a great ( conflict' on their account [ch. ii. 1]. Moreover the knowledge of the Colossians concerning Paul is sufficiently in dicated (marked), not only by the preceding words, as in the Epistle to the Ephesians, but also by those following, which are peculiar to this Epistle to the Colossians : -jraj/ra vpTv yvupiova ra Site?
10. 2ui/o6/^aaXw7-o's /^ou, my fellow-prisoner) This was the state of Aristarchus (viz. that of a prisoner), not so Epaphras, ver. 12 : but it is Epaphras, not Aristarchus, that is spoken of as his * fellow-prisoner' in Philem. ver. 23, 24. Perhaps Epaphras, when he came to Rome, was imprisoned, and presently after
1 TV UTS TIX, Tipl ypav is the reading of ABD corrected, (A), Gfg, and so Lachm. But yvu — vpaiv in C Vulg. and Rec. Text, and so Tisch. — ED.
2 Therefore Beng. rejects the reading yvart rx vtal qftav. — ED.