106 Cf. Heb. 13:20.
106Cf. Heb. 13:20.
107See pp. 267-68 with n. 110 for the possibility that “your love toward all the saints” has found its way into the text of Eph. 1:15 under the influence of Col. 1:4.
108For the possibility that “the brothers” are a particular group within the wider community of “all who love our Lord Jesus Christ” see E. E. Ellis, “Paul and his Co-Workers,” NTS 17 (1970-71), 445-51: he argues that “the brothers” are Paul’s colleagues or fellow-preachers (cf. 1 Cor. 16:20; Gal. 1:2; Phil. 4:21; Col. 4:15). He suggests (p. 446, n. 3) that the added grace-benediction of v. 24 is “Paul’s greeting in his own hand” (cf. p. 186 above with n. 79).
109εἴ τɩζ οὐ φɩλεῖ τòν ϰὐϱɩον. There is no material distinction between φɩλέω and ἀγαπάω in such expressions, but ἀγαπάω, not φɩλέω, is Paul’s word; the implication is that the if-clause of 1 Cor. 16:22 is quoted from a current form of words.
110See J. A. T. Robinson, “The Earliest Christian Liturgical Sequence?” in Twelve New Testament Studies (London, 1962), pp. 154-57.
111ἐν ἀφθαϱσίᾳ.