191 Cf. A. S. Peake, Colossians, p. 513.
191Cf. A. S. Peake, Colossians, p. 513.
192Cf. 1 Cor. 15:9-10; Eph. 3:7-8; 1 Tim. 1:12-14.
193Cf. 1 Thess. 2:18.
194Cf. Rom. 11:13; Eph. 3:2-6; see also J. Munck, Paul and the Salvation of Mankind, pp. 25-68.
195The implied pronoun μου (“my”) is made explicit after τοῖς παθήμασɩν in ℵ2 81 and several cursives.
196Lit., “from the ages and from the generations” (ἀπò τѽν αἰώνων ϰαὶ ἀπò τѽν γενεѽν), where ἀπó has the temporal sense of “since”; it is not suggested that the ages and the generations were entities from which the mystery was concealed, as it was from the “rulers of this age” in 1 Cor. 2:8. Cf. Eph. 3:9, ἀπò τѽν αἰώνων (p. 319).
197Gk. τò πλοῦτος τῆς δóξης τοῦ μυστηϱίου τούτου (τῆς δóξης is omitted in P46). For the genitive τῆς δóξης used with qualifying force (“glorious”) cf. v. 11 above, τò ϰϱάτος τῆς δóξης αὐτοῦ (see p. 47, n. 37). Paul is particularly given to the use of πλοῦτος with a dependent genitive (cf. Col. 2:2; Rom. 2:4; 9:23; 2 Cor. 8:2; Eph. 1:7; 2:7; 3:8). For “this mystery” several Western witnesses (D* F G b vg.codd Ambst) read “the mystery of God” (τοῦ θεοῦ for τούτου), perhaps under the influence of Col. 2:2. For τού του ℵ* reads τοῦ (“the mystery which is among the Gentiles”).
198For ὅ (“which”), in agreement with the antecedent μυστηϱίου, ℵ C D H I Ψ and the majority of cursives read ὅς (“who”), attracted into the gender of Xϱɩστóς.