116 E. Percy, Die Probleme, p. 168.
115On humility (ταπεινοφϱοσύνη) see Col. 3:12 (p. 154, n. 127). According to Hermas (Shepherd, Vision 3.10.6-7), humility (ταπεινοφϱοσύνη), almost in the sense of “mortification,” including fasting, is necessary for receiving revelations in a vision. The rendering above, “through delight in humility,” takes the Greek phrase θέλων ἐν σπεινοφϱσύνη to be a Septuagintalism (following the Hebrew use of the preposition be with the verb hāpēs, “to delight in”). C. F. D. Moule (IBNTG, p. 183) compares Ps. 112:1 (LXX 111:1), where ἐν ταῑς ἐντολαῑς ατοῡ θελήσει σφόὁϱα renders Heb. bemiswôṯāyw hāpēs me’ōḏ (“he will greatly rejoice in his commandments”). E. Percy (Die Probleme, p. 145) also quotes Testament of Asher 1:6, ἐὰν οὖν ἠ ψυχὴ θέλει ἐν ϰαλѽ (“if therefore the soul delight in good”). J. B. McClellan, “Colossians II.18: A Criticism of the Revised Version and an Exposition,” Expositor, series 7, 9 (1910), 388, prefers to take θέλων closely with ϰαταβϱαβευὲτω, “let no one condemn you at will in the matter of . . .”; θέλων, he thinks, expresses the attitude hoc uolo, sic iubeo, stet pro ratione uoluntas (Juvenal, Sat. 6.223). There is certainly no need to emend the text, as Hort suggested, to ἐν ἐθελοταπεινοφϱοσύνη (“with voluntary humility”), this noun being a conjectural coinage of similar stamp to ἐθελοθϱησϰεία in v. 23 (see p. 128, n. 163).
116E. Percy, Die Probleme, p. 168.
117E. Percy, Die Probleme, p. 155; he has a full discussion of the θϱησϰεία τѽν ἀγγέλῷν on pp. 149-69.