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m 2 Cor. vi, πι 1; Rom. Vili. 28; Jas. li. 22; Mk. xvi. οὗτοι 20; 1 Esdr. vii. 2;1 Macc. xii. 1. -γος, see iii. 9. n See xv. 10. 2 Macc. Viii. 12, Xv. 21.
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this antith., Phil. ii. 30. Xi. 29, xii. 43; Rev. iv. 8, xiv. 11. Σαν. τα:
1Φφορτοννατον, all uncc. but KMP,
2vpeTepoy, all uncc. but NAKL. ὃοντοι, NBCKLP. 4 Ins. και DG, latt. vg., Ambrst.
Cor.: the fifth—‘All your doings, let them be done (or carried on: γινέσθω) im love ’’—reiterates the appeal of chh. viii. and xiii. touching the radical fault of this Church; see also ii. 3, iv. 6, vi. 1-8, xi. 21 f., xii. 21, etc.
Vv. 15, 16 urge particular instances of the above ἐν ἀγάπῃ γινέσθω. The ἵνα clause of νετ. 16 is complementary to παρακαλῶ (see note on i. 10), and is sus- pended to make room for the explanatory οἴδατε . . « ἑαυτοὺς: “you know that the household of Stephanas is the first- fruit of Achaia, and that they set them- selves for ministering to the saints ”’.— τὴν οἰκίαν κ.τ.λ., acc. by attraction to οἴδατε, according to the well-known Gr. usage with vbs. of this class (Wr., p. 781). There were earlier individual con- verts in Achaia (see Acts xvii. 34), but with this family the Gospel ‘took root in the province and the earnest appeared of “the subsequent ingathering: cf. Rom. xvi. 5; also i. 16 above, and note. The St. family must have been of independent means; for ἔταξαν ἑαυτοὺς (they arrayed or appointed themselves—made this their business) implies a systematic laying out of themselves for service, such as is pos- sible only to those free to dispose, as they choose, of their persons and their time; see this idiom in Plato, Rep., ii., 371C. —‘‘ The saints”’ can hardly be the Jerus. saints of ver. 1, since els διακονίαν is quite general, and the last words of ver. 16 imply manifold Christian labour; the present commission of St. to Eph. is an instance of ‘service to the saints’’.—P. ‘‘exhorts’’ his ‘‘ brethren . . . that you also (in return for their service to you) submit yourselves to such as these (t. τοιούτοις, referring to the interpolated «οἴδατε κ.τ.λ.), and to every one that