liberated. Paul might have so called Aristarchus, because he had been formerly imprisoned. — 6 ave-fyibg Bapvdfia, [sister's son, Engl. Vers.] kinsman to Barnabas) Barnabas was better known than Mark ; therefore the latter is designated from the former. — tftpl ou, concerning whom) namely Mark ; the o5 refers to the nominative, not to the oblique case, of Barnabas [though Bapvd@a immediately precedes]. — s\d(3srs) ye have received. Tychicus and Onesimus seem to have borne these command ments to the Colossians, along with this epistle. Ye have re ceived, he says, not, you will receive ; for the ancients suited their language to the time when the epistle was read, not to the time when it was written, as we should do. Thus, / have written, for / write, Philem. ver. 19. — svro\dg, commandments) These are put in antithesis to the writing. — sdv, if) This is the sum of those commandments.
11. o/ ovresy who are) namely, Aristarchus, Marcus, Jesus. — u,6voi, alone) of the circumcision. — veanyopia) The propriety of the word should be observed; what <7rapa,u,v&ta is in domestic sorrow, Kapyyopia is in forensic danger.1
12. Tsteioi Kai <irsir\ripuf*'svoi, perfect and complete) This is in troduced from the former discussion.2 — sv -nuvri, in all) Construe with, ye may stand.
13. Tap, for) The reason (setiologia : see Append.) is properly in, he hath. The verb, / bear him record, is modal.3 — £SjXo», zeal) lest you should be seduced, ch. ii. 4 : comp. 2 Cor. xi. 2.
14. 'O iarpbs, the physician) He is so called, either because he had practised, or was practising, medicine. He calls him Luke, as being sufficiently known to Timothy by his name alone, in 2 Tim. iv. 11. He calls him the physician here, as being unknown to the Colossians. — A»j//,a£, Demas) He alone is put without any descriptive epithet ; comp. 2 Tim. iv. 10 : but perhaps the reason for this was, that Demas wrote the epistle under the dictation of Paul.
15. Nu/^pav, Nymphas) of Laodicea, as may be collected from
1 Inasmuch as TlapapvOtot, comes from pvQos, word of advice : from dyopoc, the forum, dyopsvai. — ED.
2 Ch. i. 28, ii. 2, iii. 14.— ED.
3 Expression of feeling; opposed to categorical. See Append, on 'modus,' ' modalis/ — ED.