Tpodtpov: See Acts xx. 4, xxi. 29, and the art. in Hastings’ D. B.
ἀσθενοῦντα: Paley’s remark is never out of date, '' Forgery, upon such an occasion, would not have spared a miracle”? (Horae Paul. Philippians 2). Chrys. notes, ‘‘ The apostles could not do everything, or they did not dispense miraculous gifts upon all occasions, lest more should be ascribed to them than was right’’.
Ver. 21. πρὸ χειμῶνος: “ That thou
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ἀδελφοὶ πάντες. 22.
χάρις μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν.
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3Ins. ἀμήν ΝΜΡΚΙ.Ρ, d, e, vg., syrr.; add πρὸς Τιμόθεον 50, 17; πρὸς Τ. β΄ ἐπληρώθη D; ἐτελέσθη πρ. Τ. β΄ FG; πρ. T. β΄ ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Λαοδικείας A; πρ. Τ. β΄ ἐγράφει ἀπὸ Ῥώμης P; πρ. Τ. δευτέρα: τῆς ᾿Εφεσίων ἐκκλησίας ἐπίσκοπον χειροτονηθέντα > ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Ρώμης, ὅτε ἐκ δευτέρου παρέστη Παῦλος τῷ Καίσαρι “Ῥώμης Νέρωνι K, many cursives, similarly L.
be not detained,’ sc. by storm (Chrys.). This seems less urgent than ταχέως of ver. 9, and we may infer that St. Paul did not expect his final trial to take place for some months.
Εὔβουλος: Nothing else is known of this good man.
Πούδης καὶ Λίνος καὶ KAavdia: Light- foot (Apostolic Fathers, part i. vol. i. pp. 76-79) has an exhaustive discussion of the various ingenious theories which, starting with the assumption that Pudens and Claudia were man and wife—a sup- position opposed by the order of the names—have identified them with (1) Martial’s congenial friend Aulus Pudens, to whom the poet casually ‘‘ imputes the foulest vices of heathenism,’’ and his bride Claudia Rufina, a girl of British race (Efigr. iv. 13, xi. 53), (2) ‘‘a doubt- ful Pudens and imaginary Claudia’’ who have been evolved out of a fragmentary inscription found at Chichester in 1722. This appears to record the erection of a temple by a Pudens with the sanction of Claudius Cogidubnus, who is probably
a British king who might have had a daughter, whom he might have named Claudia, and who might have taken the name Rufina from Pomponia, the wife of Aulus Plautius, the Roman commander in Britain. This last supposition would identify (τ) and (2). It should be added that in Const. Apost. vii. 46 she is mother of Linus. See also arts. Claudia and Pudens in Hastings’ D. B.
Linus is identified by Irenzus with the Linus whom SS. Peter and Paul consecrated first Bishop of Rome (Haer. iii. 3). See also art. in Hastings’ D. B. Ver. 22. μετὰ τοῦ πνεύματός σου: This expression, with ὑμῶν for σου, occurs in Gal. vi. 18, Philem. 25; but in both those places it is “‘ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with,” etc. Herea very close personal association between the Lordand Timothy is prayed for. Dean Bernard compares the conclusion of the Epistle of Barnabas, ὃ κύριος τῆς δόξης καὶ πάσης χάριτος μετὰ τοῦ πνεύματος πυμων.
μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν: See note on 1 Tim. vi. 21.