will specify the way in which the growth is to be made. With the sense of joint the clause will be best attached to the participles preceding it (especially in view of the clause in Col. ΠΠ. το), and will define the means by which the framing and compacting are effected. (See especially Light. on Col. ii. 19.) The term ἐπι- χορηγία, which occurs again in Phil. i. Ig, means supply, perhaps with something of the idea of the large and liberal, as Ell. suggests, belonging to the primary use of ἐπιχορηγεῖν. The τῆς points to the particular supply that comes from Christ, and the gen. may be taken as that of inner relation or destination (cf. σκεύη τῆς λειτουργίας, Heb. ix. 21; see Win.- Moult., p. 235). The idea, therefore, appears to be that the body is fitly framed and knit together by means of the joints, every one of them in its own place and function, as the points of connection between member and member and the points of communication between the different parts andthe supply which comes from the Head. ‘The joints are the con- stituents of union in the body and the media of the impartation of the life drawn by the members from the head. Precisely so in Col. ii. 19 the joints and ligaments are mentioned together and are described as the parts by which the body receives its supplies (ἐπιχορηγούμενον) and is kept compact together (συμβιβαζόμενογ). --- κατ᾽ ἐνέργειαν ἐν μέτρῳ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου μέρους : according to an efficiency in the measure of each individual part. For μέρους some good MSS., etc., read μέλους (AC, Syr., Boh., Vulg., etc.), and WH give it a place in their margin. But µέ- ρους is to be preferred, as supported by such authorities as ΒΝΡΚΙ Ρ, Arm., etc. ἐνέργειαν = energy in the sense of activity, working. ἐν μέτρῳ = in the measure, 1.e., proportionate to, in keeping with (Mey.), or commensurate with (Ell.). ἐν can never have the sense οἴκατά, But
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only. δι Thess. iv. 1 al. fr.; Paul only.
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