same time as this, and therefore Paul could not have sent salutations to Lao- dicea in this letter. But this is really natural, if Ephesians was a circular letter (and the absence of salutations is difficult to explain otherwise), and if this letter was to be passed on to Laodicea.
Ver. 17. Archippus may have been at Laodicea, but more probably not, for we should have expected the reference to him in ver. 15. The Church is entrusted with the duty of exhorting one of its ministers. There is no need to infer any slackness on his part.—év Κυρίῳ is added to emphasise its importance, and the need that it should be zealously fulfilled.
Ver. 18. τῇ ἐμῇ χειρὶ : the rest of the letter would be written by an amanuensis. As he writes, his chain, fastened on his left hand, would impress itself on his notice. Hence the touching request “ Remember my bonds,” which may bear the special sense ‘‘remember in your prayers”’.— χάρις μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν: so with- out any defining addition in Eph. and 1 and 2 Tim. It is not so in the earlier letters, but neither is it so in Phil. (or Titus).
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