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to Philippi, on the other hand the other party consisting of two, viz., the Asian representatives, waited for them at Troas. At Philippi the six deputies and Paul were joined by St. Luke, who hence- forth speaks of the deputation in the first person plural, and identifies himself with its members as a colleague. Then from Troas the whole party proceed to Jerusa- lem (Acts, pp. 119, 303). In this way οὗτοι in ver. 5 is restricted to Tychicus and Trophimus (see also Ramsay, as below), whereas A. and R.V. refer the pronoun to all the deputies, so too Weiss and Wendt. If this is so, the ἡμᾶς, ver. 5, might refer (but see further below) only to Paul and Luke, as the latter would naturally rejoin Paul at Philippi where we left him, cf. xvi. 17. Ramsay explains (St. Paul, p. 287) that the discovery of the Jewish plot altered St. Paul’s plan, and that too at the last moment, when delegates from the Churches had already assembled. The European delegates were to sail from Corinth, and the Asian from Ephesus, but the latter having received word of the change of plan went as far as Troas to meet the others, οὗτοι thus referring to Tychicus and Trophimus alone (but see also Askwith, Epistle to the Gala- tians (1899), pp. 94, 95).
Wendt also favours retention of ἄχρι τῆς “A. and prefers the reading προσελ- θόντες, but he takes ἡμᾶς in ver. 5 to exclude St. Paul, and refers it to other friends of the Apostle (as distinct from those who accompanied him through Macedonia “as far as Asia”), viz., the author of the / We”’ sections and others who only now meet the Apostle and his company at Troas. But this obliges us to make a somewhat artificial distinction be- tween ἡμᾶς in ver. 5 with ἡμεῖς in ver. 6, and éfer. and ἤλθομεν on the one hand, and διετρίψαµεν, ver. 6, on the other, as the latter must be taken to include St.
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