6 avayayuv, who brought again; comp. ch. ii. 9, dia, for, on account of; likewise John x. 17, 18 ; Phil. ii. 9. — a/Wou, ever lasting) An august epithet. This eternity of the covenant infers the necessity of a resurrection : Acts xiii. 34, note, from Isaiah.
21. Kuraprfaai, fit or join you perfectly together) 1 Cor. i. 10, note [the antithesis of ff^/V^ara, divisions]. — voir^at, KOIUV) God doing, we will do. \_Godfits us for doing ; nay, indeed He rather does Himself, 2 Pet. i. 3. — V. g.] — rb Q'sXypa, the will) Comp. Is. liii. 10 on the resurrection of Christ and progress of the Divine will. — <5/a, through) Construed with iroiuv, doing, working, Phil. i. 11.— w, to whom) viz. to GOD, ver. 20; Eom. xvi. 27, note ; Gal. i. 5, note. Then, and then only, can glory be given to God, if we subject ourselves to His salutary will. Comp. concerning Christ, 2 Pet. iii. 18. — 86%a, glory) They to whom he wrote had not afforded any occasion for a joyful exordium or commencement, in which thanks might be given ; Paul therefore uses in this passage the Doxology, as at Gal. i. 5, 6, note.
22. llapaxaXw* napaK'kiifcug, I exhort : of exhortation) Conju gates, sweetly used. — rou \6yov, the word) with which your ministers abundantly exhort you face to face. The antithesis is,
, / have sent, I have written : comp. Acts xv. 27, 32. — in few words, considering that the subject was copious. — sT£<rrg/Xa, / have sent) namely, this epistle, which abounds in irapdxXyffis, or exhortation.
23. Tivuffxtri) know ye, with joy. — rbv adsXpbv, our brother) So Timothy is called by Paul: see note on 1 Cor. iv. 17.
psvov, set at liberty) He had therefore been in prison. — '
if he come) to me. Therefore they had been in different places.
24. Tldvras rovg qyouft'evovg V/A&JV, all them that have the rule over you) They laboured under dulness of apprehension ; but this epistle has solid food for them that are perfect. Therefore if any epistle needed to have been withdrawn from the general multi tude, this certainly was that epistle. And yet this epistle too is directed to the general multitude, rather than to the ministers, to whom it was less necessary. [/So the discourse is addressed to women, children, servants, young men, etc., Eph. v. 22, etc.; 1 John ii. 18 ; 2 John 1 : and to all together, 1 Pet. iii. 8 ; v. 5. Paul gives an injunction to Archippus through the Colossians, iv.