75 J. B. Lightfoot, Colossians and Philemon, pp. 244, 308-10.
72E. J. Goodspeed, Introduction to the New Testament (Chicago, 1937), p. 224.
73A. Deissmann, Light from the Ancient East, p. 238. C. P. Anderson, “Who wrote ‘the Epistle from Laodicea’?” JBL 85 (1966), 436-40, suggested that this was a letter from Epaphras, dealing with problems in the church of Laodicea similar to those in the Colossian church; later, in “Hebrews among the Letters of Paul,” SR 5 (1975-76), 258-66, he made the further suggestion that it was the letter known to us as Hebrews. (Cf. p. 120, n. 127.)
74Extant in Latin; for the reconstructed Greek text and discussion see J. B. Lightfoot, Colossians and Philemon, pp. 274-300; for introduction and translation see E. Hennecke, New Testament Apocrypha, ed. W. Schneemelcher and R. McL. Wilson, E.T., II (London, 1965), 128-32. In the fifteenth century two independent English translations were interpolated into manuscripts of the Wycliffite versions of the Bible. A. von Harnack ascribed a Marcionite origin to it in “Der apokryphe Brief des Aposteis Paulus an die Laodicener, eine marcionitische Fälschung aus der zweiten Hälfte des zweiten Jahrhunderts,” SAB (1923), pp. 235-45. (Whether the Muratorian canon’s reference to “an alleged epistle to the Laodiceans” implies that the compiler knew this document, or merely knew that this title appeared in Marcion’s ἀποστολɩϰóν, is uncertain.)
75J. B. Lightfoot, Colossians and Philemon, pp. 244, 308-10.
76For this suggestion see J. Knox, Philemon among the Letters of Paul (Nashville/New York, 21959), pp. 49-51. Cf. p. 199.