lory which Paul believed to be so near so Lft., ΚΙ., etc.).
Ver. 20. Doxology. Doxologia fluit ex gaudio totius epistolae (Beng.). On the phrase τοὺς αἰῶνας τ. αἰώνων see the excellent note in Grimm-Thayer ad loc.
Vv. 21-23. GREETINGS AND BENEDIC- TION.—Ver, 21. Perhaps this last para-
—
18---23.
21. "᾿Ασπάσασθε πάντα ἅγιον ἐν Χριστῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ. 22. ἀσπάζονται ὑμᾶς πάντες οἱ ἅγιοι,
ὑμᾶς οἱ σὺν ἐμοὶ ἀδελφοί.
μάλιστα δὲ οἱ ἐκ] τῆς Καίσαρος οἰκίας.
473
ἀσπάζονται w Rom. xvi. 3; 1 Cor. xvi. 19 al.
23. Ἡ χάρις τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν 2 Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ μετὰ πάντων ὃ
ὑμῶν. ἀμήν."
Πρὸς Φιλιππησίους ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Ῥώμης δι’ ᾿Επαφροδίτου.ὅ
1B aro.
2So Der.Eer-P, kscr., f, r, syrsch.et p. cop. zth., Chr., Thdrt., Victorin., Ambrst. Edd. om. ημων with SABFer.GKL, ἆ, e, 6, arm., Euth.cod.
3 So also Myr. with &cKL, syrr., Chr., Thdrt., Thphl.
Edd. peta του πνευ-
ατος with *ABDEFGP 6, 17, 31, 47, d, 6, f, g, τ, vg. cop. arm. zth., Euth.cod.,
ictorin., Ambrst,
4 80 SADEKLP # al, ᾱ, 6, 1, vg. cop. syrr. arm. exth., Thdrt., Dam.,
Ambrst. 5 So KL, syrr., Thdrt., etc.
Ti., Ws., W.H. om. αμην with ΒΕ 47, f, g, sah., Chr., Euth.cod., Vict. Edd. προς φιλιππησιους with SAB 17, 135.
The
latter form is plainly the more ancient, the other being an expansion based on the
graph may have been written by the Apostle’s own hand (so Von Soden and Laurent, op. cit., p. 9). Cf. Gal. vi. 11. —év X, Ἰ. These words are to be taken in close connexion with ἀσπάσασθε. Cf. 1 Cor. xvi. 19, ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς ἐν Κυρίῳ πολλὰ ᾿Ακύλας. -- ἀδελφοί. Perhaps these were Roman Christians who aided Paul in his labours: (see M‘Giffert, 4. Age, p. 397). At least they would be included.
Ver. 22. μάλιστα. If by this time, as is probable (see Introduction), Paul had been removed from his lodging to one of the state prisons near the palace, it is plain that Christians of the Imperial household would have special oppor- tunities of close intercourse with him.— οἱ ἐκ τῆς Κ. οἰκίας. See esp. SH., Romans, pp. 418-423, as supplementary to Lightfoot’s important discussion; and also, Riggenbach, Neue fahrb. f. deutsche Th., 1892, pp. 498-525, Mommsen, Hand-
buch d. rim, Alterth., ii., 2 (ed. 3), pp. 833-839. SH. point out that a number of the names mentioned for salutation in Rom. xvi. occur in the Corpus of Latin Inscriptions as members of the Imperial household, which seems to have been one of the chief centres of the Christian com- munity at Rome. In the first century A.D. most of the Emperor’s household servants came from the East. Under Claudius and Nero they were people of real importance. And we find, from history, that Christian slaves had great influence over their masters. See Fried- lander, Sittengeschichte Roms, i., pp. 70 ff., 74, I10-112.
Ver. 23. Probably pera τοῦ πνεύματος ought to be read with all the chief autho- rities instead of πάντων. Myr., however, supposes that these words have been inserted from Gal. vi. 18, to which he would also attribute ἡμῶν supr., which is probably spurious.
THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE