ἄν. ποιούμενος, 5. ἐπὶ τῇ "κοινωνίᾳ ὑμῶν ‘eis τὸ εὐαγγέλιον, ἀπὸ ἲ
ix 13). πρώτης ἡμέρας ἄχρι τοῦ νῦν. 6. ΚΣ πεποιθὼς | αὐτὸ τοῦτο, ὅτι ὁ
16. = ν ὑμῖν i Acts xxiv. ἐναρξάμενος ἐ κ.
1721 Cor.
XVi. I. k Constrn. ver. 25; chap. ii. 18. m Gal. iii. 3. n Rom. xiv. 20, o2
v. 5; 2 Cor. i. 14; 1 Thess. v. 2.
1So Hpt. with DEFGKL, Chr., Thdrt.
. Vili. 6, 11. For thought, cf. 2 Thess. i. 11.
" ἔργον ἀγαθὸν " ἐπιτελέσει ἄχρις 2. Ρ ἡμέρας
1 Rom. xiii. 6; 2 Cor. vii. 11; Gal. ii. το εἰ αἱ. Freg. in later books of LXX. p1Cor.
απο της πι
Ῥωτης W.H., Ws., Lft.
(brackets) with ΝΑΒΡ 37, Euthal.cod. Possibly τῆς is a later addition. 2 So Tre.» Lft. (axpi[s]) with DEFGKLP, Chr., Thdrt. W.H., Ws., Alf. αχρι u
with NB, Euthal.cod. (A αχρι ης).
Vv. 3-8. HIS THANKFULNESS, LOVE AND CONFIDENCE FOR THE PHILIPPIANS, —Ver. 3. Much may be said in favour of the reading ἐγὼ μὲν εὐχαριστῶ (see crit. note) from the point of view of sense. The antithesis would then show that the letter is a direct reply to one received from Philippi, and the emphasis on Paul's own thanksgiving would be accounted for (with Zahn) by the supposition that the Philippians imagined a slight lack of cordiality on his part. This supposition is favoured by the prominence given in the Epistle to Paul’s delight in them.— εὐχ. τ. Θ. ἐπί. Cf. 1 Cor. 1. 4, εὐχαριστῶ τῷ Θεῷ . . «ἐπὶ τῇ χάριτι. . . τῇ δοθείσῃ ὑμῖν; Papyr. Lond., xlii., κομι- σαμένη τὴν παρά σον ἐπιστολὴν Ὥρονυ . . . ἐπὶ μὲν τῷ ἐρρῶσθα[(] σε εὐθέως τοῖς Θεοῖς εὐχαρίστουν (quoted by Dsm., BS., p. 210). A word condemned by the grammarians, but in common use from the time of Polyb., and found in modern Greek as ὑκαριστῶ (Hatz., Ein- leit., p. 235].---ἐπὶ πάσῃ τῇ μνείᾳ ὑμῶν. These words have been the subject of much discussion. No doubt ἐπί could be used here in what Ell. calls its “ ethico- local” sense of a circumstance or experi- ence regarded as the basis of an action, and thus the meaning would be: “1 give thanks to my God at my wh6le remem- brance of you” (“every remembrance” is, it seems to us, in spite of ΚΙ., -- and Weizs., linguistically impossible). Or, what is more natural after εὐχαριστῶ (see exx. supr.), ἐπί may be “on account of”. This would make good sense. The total impression left upon him by his intercourse with them is one which calls forth thankfulness. There is another possible meaning supported by Hfm., Zahn, Wohl., cade (Th. LZ., 1889, col. 419) and Sohm (Kirchenrecht, p. 81). ὑμῶν may be gen. of subject, and so we should translate: ‘fon account of your whole remembrance ofme’’. This would
accord admirably with the context, pre- paring the way for κοινωνία (ver. 5), and pointing delicately to the practical expres- sion of their thoughtfulness. The only serious objection to it is that the other interpretation fits in more suitably with the parallels Rom. i. 8, 9, 1 Cor. i. 4, Eph. i, 16, Col. i. 3, 1 Thess. i. 2 and those in ΙΧΧ.
Ver. 4. Various divisions of these words have been proposed, some referring πάν- τοτε . . . ὑμῶν to the preceding verse, others taking πάντοτε . . . pov together, and regarding the remainder of the sen- tence as a connected whole. It seems least arbitrary to find in ver. 4 a complete thought. The prominence of πᾶς shows the exuberance of his joy in them.— δεήσει. A special aspect of προσευχή, that of entreaty for the satisfaction of some known want; cf. Ell. on 1 Tim. ii, I.—peTa χαρᾶς. The undertone of the whole letter.—8. ποιούμενος, An inter- σα, Ser ay in Papyr. of Faijim, 172 A.D., δικαίαν δέϊησ]ιν ποιούμενος (Dsm., NBS., p. 78), in the general sense of “asking” (cf. δεήσεις ποιεῖσθαι, Luke ν. 33, 1 Tim. ii. 1).