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Epp., exc. 2 Pet., 1 Jo., Jude. x See ver. I, ver.12, a Rom. xvi. 5; Col. iv. 15; Phm. 2.
1 CP, syrsch. ins. πασαι. Σασπαζεται, ΝΟΡΚΡ.
of other y Rom. xvi. 2 ff.; see vii. 22 above,etc. zSee b Acts ii. 46, v. 42; cf. εν οικῳ, xi. 34 above.
ασπαζονται: BGLM, ete.
ΣΠρισκα, SBMP, 17, vg. (best codd.) cop. See note oelow.
‘DG, latt. vg., Clem., Pelag. add wap’ οις και ξενιζοµαι (apud quos et hospitor)— an ancient gloss, contradicting the απο Φιλιππων of the Subscription.
τερον represents the objective gen. (cf. xv. 31): the presence of the three with P. could not make up any lack in Cor., but it made up to P. for the absence of the Cor., supplying him, representatively, with their desired society. El. and others read the poss. pron. subjectively —* what you were lacking in (t.e., your want of access) towards me”: this constr. is consistent with the usage of ὑστέρημα (see parls.); but the former suits better the antithesis to παρουσία (Ed.), and Paul’s fine courtesy.—‘ For they refreshed my spirit—and yours.” ἀναπαύω (see paris.) describes the restful effect of friendly converse and sympathy. Paul adds καὶ ὑμῶν, realising that the comfort of heart received by himself will react upon his friends at Cor.: the Cor. will be cheered to know that their fellowship, in the persons of S., F., and A., has so greatly cheered him at a time of weariness and heavy trial (cf. 2 Cor. ii. 3, vii. 3).
Ver. 185 repeats in another form the advice of ver. 16: ‘Acknowledge (know well) then such men as these’. For τοὺς τοιούτους, See parls., and ver. 16. ---ἐπιγινώσκω (see paris.) denotes strictly accurate knowledge, of persons or things; but knowledge of personal qualities im- plies corresponding regard to and treat- ment of those who possess such qualities : εἶια ἴπεες, ντ
§ 6ο. FinaL GREETINGS, xvi. 19-24. The Ep. closes with three public saluta- tions from the Christians surrounding P. at Ephesus to their brethren at Cor. (19, 20a), followed by a request to the latter, such as appears besides in 1 Thess., 2 Cor., Rom., and Phil., to ‘‘salute one another” in token of brotherly union, and of communion with those who now send their greetings (206). The letter is then sealed with the writer’s personal salutation (21-24) penned by his own hand, and stamped with a characteristic double motto peculiar to this Ep., which
expresses the supreme peril and supreme consolation of the Christian calling (22).
Vv. 19, 20a. Three successive clauses, headed by ἀσπάζομαι: ‘‘ There salute you the Churches of Asia. There saluteth you in the Lord abundantly Aquila and Prisca, with the assembly (church) at their house. There salute you all the brethren’’. The pl. expression, at ἐκ- κλησίαι τῆς ᾿Ασίας, accords with what appears elsewhere as to the general dif- fusion of the Gospel in the province of Asia during Paul’s three years’ ministry at Eph. (Acts xix. 10, 26; Col. i. 6, ii. 1, iv. 13, 16), and as to the solidarity of the Asian Churches gathered round Eph., to which collectively the Revelation of John, and probably the (so-called) Ep. to the Ephesians, were addressed. While P. had not personally visited all these com- munities (Col. ii. 1), he was in touch with them and knew their mind towards their brethren in Greece. Desiring a more catholic feeling in the Cor. Church (see note oni. 2), P. makes the most of these Church greetings.—The second salutation has a note of personal warmth, as the first of catholic breadth: Aq. and Prisca ‘‘send much greeting”’ (7oAka— cf. 12, etc.—in requests and wishes, im- plies frequency or intensity, or both); and “in the Lord’’—not as a matter of ordinary friendship, but in the way of love and service to Christ. This worthy pair entertained the Ap. in Cor. when he first came there (Acts xviii. 1 ff.); on some occasion (perhaps about this time at Eph.) they risked their lives for his (Rom. xvi. 4). They had now migrated to Eph., where they reappear some years- later in 2 Tim. iv. 19; see notes on Rom. xvi. 3 ff., for their further history. Thrice their names figure in the Acts, and thrice in the Epp.— Prisca first (‘‘ Priscilla’? only in Acts) four times: see Hort’s Prolegom. to Rom. and Eph., pp. 12 ff., Sand.-Headlam, Romans, pp.