26 Gk. ἔπεμψα, “I have sent” (epistolary aorist).
26Gk. ἔπεμψα, “I have sent” (epistolary aorist).
27Gk. ἵνα γνѽτε τὰ πεϱὶ ἡμѽν (A B D* F G P 048 33 81 etc.), but the harder reading, ἵνα γνῷ τὰ πεϱὶ ὑμѽν (“that he may learn your news”), has the strong attestation of P46 ℵ2 C D1 Ψ and the majority of cursives with the Latin, Syriac, and Bohairic versions (ℵ* has the mixed reading ἵνα γνѽτε τὰ πεϱὶ ὑμѽν). One can no longer say of the reading of B etc., as Lightfoot did, that “the preponderance of ancient authority is decidedly in its favour” (ad loc.); the evidence is quite evenly balanced and it should be considered whether this is not a situation in which the precept praestat lectio ardua should be heeded.
28Gk. πάντα . . . τὰ ὧδε, to which F G add πϱαττόμενα (cf. Lat. omnia quae hic aguntur).
29Gk. πɩστòς δɩάϰονος ϰαὶ σύνδουλος ἐν ϰυϱίῳ. Cf. Col. 1:7, ἀπò ’Eπαφϱᾶ τοῦ ἀγαπητοῦ συνδούλου ἡμѽν, ὅς ἐστɩν πɩστòς ὑπὲϱ ὑμѽν δɩάϰονος τοῦ Xϱɩστοῦ. The analogy of Col. 1:7 suggests that, while Tychicus is Paul’s ἀδελφóς, he is not Paul’s δɩάϰονος but Christ’s.
30See n. 27.