52 See p. 52, n. 61 (on Col. 1:13).
52See p. 52, n. 61 (on Col. 1:13).
53Gk. παϱηγοϱíα (not elsewhere in the NT). “The idea of consolation, comfort, is on the whole predominant in the word,” perhaps because it and its derivates “were used especially as medical terms, in the sense of ‘assuaging,’ ‘alleviating’” (Lightfoot, ad loc).
54On these and other συνεϱγοί see E. E. Ellis, “Paul and his Co-Workers,” NTS 17 (1970-71), 437-52, reprinted in Prophecy and Hermeneutic in Early Christianity (Grand Rapids/Tübingen, 1978), pp. 3-22; W.-H. Ollrog, Paulus und seine Mitarbeiter (Neukirchen, 1979).
55With δοῦλος here cf. σύνδουλος in Col. 1:7.
56For Laodicea cf. Col. 2:1; for all three cities see Introduction, pp. 3-8.
57Especially by W. K. Hobart, The Medical Language of St. Luke (Dublin, 1882); cf. also A. von Harnack, Luke the Physician, E.T. (London, 1907), pp. 175-98. But see for a critical assessment of the evidence H. J. Cadbury, Style and Literary Method of Luke (Cambridge, MA, 1920).