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ο οσα, ἀσπάσασθε ἀλλήλους ἐν "φιλήματι "ἁγίῳ. xvi. 16; 14 τῇ ᾿ἐμῇ 4° yeipi, ΠΑΥ΄ΛΟΥ:
Th. v. 26; τ Pet. v. 14. μα etc.; καταφιλεω, Acts xx. 37; 5 exx. in GG. Mt. xxiii. 7; Lk. i. 29, etc. g See vii. 9. h Jo. xxi. 15 ff. Cf. note c above.
418 ff., also Rom. ad loc. above, on the conjectures associated with this lady’s name. ‘The vb. is sing., the two sending one greeting.—The ‘ecclesia at their house”? can scarcely mean the whole Eph. Church, but some neighbouring part of it accustomed to gather, more or less formally, at Aquila’s hospitable hearth. If P. lodged with A. (see txtl. note), as he had done in Cor., the house would be a rendezvous for Ephesian Christians: cf. Rom. xvi. 5, Col. iv. 15, Philem. 2, Acts xii. 12.—ot ἀδελφοὶ wdv- τες comprise the whole body of Ephesian believers, in distinction from the smaller circle of Aquila’s house, and from the mass of the Asian Christians.
Ver. 20b. ἐν φιλήματι ἁγίῳ = ἐν φιλή- µατι ἀγάπης (1 Peter ν. 14). This Heb, custom of the sacred kiss is retained, at Communion, by the Greek and Eastern Churches; it died out in the West from the 13th cent., after having been the subject of many Conciliar limitations, occasioned by its abuse in the decline of Christian simplicity. ἁγίῳ by posi- tion is predicative—‘in a kiss that is holy”. See Art. Kiss in Dict. of Chris- tian Antiquities.
Vv. 21-24. Paul’s autograph saluta- tion, which authenticates the letter (cf. 2 Thess. iii. 17), includes the #tle of the greeting (21), the double motto (22), and the greeting proper—in two wishes (23 f.).
Ver. 21. 6 ἀσπασμὸς τ. ἐμῇ xerpt,— MAY’AOY: ‘the salution, with my own hand,—of PAUL ”.---Παύλου apposed to τῇ ἐμῇ, and inscribed with the distinction of a personal signature. Up to this point, the Ep. was presumably written by another hand (cf. Rom. xvi. 22).
Vv. 22, 23. With pen in hand, Paul must needs give expression, in two words, to the pent-up feeling under which he has written—a fiery seal burnt upon the last leaf of the Letter; ch. vi. 12-17 of Gal. occupies a like place in that Ep. The sentiment, or motto, of the ἀσπασμὸς forms two clauses: (a) ‘‘ If any one loves not the Lord, let him be anathema’”’.— οὐ (instead οί μή) in hypothetical clauses may rest upon the vb., constituting it a negative term—sc., '' hates the Lord”’ (so Ed.: cf. vii. 9, xi. 6, xv. 13; and Rom.