Ver. 2. Εὐοδ. κ.τ.λ. This direct refer- ence to a difference of opinion between two women of prominence in the Philip- pian Church is probably the best com- ment we have on the slight dissensions which are here and there hinted at throughout the Epistle. For, as Schinz aptly puts it (op. cit., p. 37), “in sucha pure Church, even slight bickerings would make a great impression”. We find no trace of the cause. It may have turned on the question discussed in chap, iii.
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ἐν Κυρίῳ. 3. καὶ] "ἐρωτῶ καὶ σέ, σύζυγε” 'γνήσιειῦ “συλλαμβάνου 4 5 See note
αὐταῖς, αἵτινες ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ " συνήθλησάν μοι, μετὰ καὶ > Κλή- ἔτ Tim. i,
ας.
µεντος, καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν ὃ συνεργῶν µου, ὧν τὰ ὀνόματα ἐν ' βίβλῳ ζωῆς. 4-
1 9Ο 115, Ambrst.
2So Ν"ΒΡΕΕΚΙΡ. Bousset, Textkrit. Studien, p. 102).
3 So KL, syrr., Chr., Thdrt.
g Luke v. 7 : (no other i See note in/r.
ex. in N.T.), h Chap. i. 27.
Edd. vat with NABDEFGKLP, O.L. vg., etc.
Ti., Alf., Ws., W.H. (Γ΄ συνζυγε with ScAD*FG (see W.H. mg. Συνζυγε.
Edd. γν. σ. with S$ABDE(FG)P 17, 47, etc.
4 So Lach. with ABcDcEKLP, Edd. συνλ. with $B*D*FG 17 (see Ws., ΤΙ, p.
138; Bousset, of. cit., p. 103).
5 Om. και D*EFG, ἆ, e, f, g, vg. go. syrP- arm. eth., Vict., Ambrst,
δ δ ἢ και των λοιπων after pov.
15-16. It may have been accidental friction between two energetic Christian women. But from the whole tone of the Epistle it cannot have gone far. Six Christian bishops named Εὐόδιος are mentioned in the Dict. of Christ. Biogr. The feminine name is also found ir: Inscrr.—Zvuvrvxy. The name occurs both in Greek and Latin Inscrr., as well as in the Acta Sanctorum (v., 225). Curiously enough, there is no masculine name pre- cisely corresponding to be found except the form Sintichus (C.I.L., xii., no. 4703, from Narbo in Gaul. The Inscr. quoted by Lft. is spurious). On the correct accentuation see the elaborate note in W-Sch., p. 71. Lft. has collected valu- able evidence to show the superior position occupied by women in Mace- donia. See his Philippians, p. 56, notes 2, 3, where he quotes Inscrr., in some of which a metronymic takes the place of the patronymic, while others record monuments erected in honour of women by public bodies. We may add, from Heuzey, Voyage Archéol., Ῥ. 423, an Inscr. of Larissa, where a woman’s name occurs among the winners in the horse- races (see Introduction). For the pro- minence of women generally in the Pauline Churches, cf. Rom. xvi. passim, 1 Cor. xiv. 34-35. The repetition of παρα- καλῶ perhaps hints that Paul wishes to treat each of them alike. [Hitzig, Zur Kritik Paulin. Brr., p. 5 ff., exemplifies the pitch of absurdity which N.T. critics reached in a former generation, by sup- posing that these names represent two heathen-Christian parties, the one Greek, the other Roman.]
Ver. 3. vat must certainly be read with all trustworthy authorities. Exactly parallel is Philm. 20. Cf. Soph., Elect.,