201 Cf. Rom. 1:8-10 for a similar transition.
199Some Western witnesses (D* F G) and others (33 614 629 etc.) omit “everyone” (πάντα ἄνθϱωπον) after “teach” (δɩδάσϰοντες).
200Xϱɩστῷ is amplified to Xϱɩστῷ ’Iησοῦ in ℵ2 D2 H Ψ with the majority of cursives.
201Cf. Rom. 1:8-10 for a similar transition.
202Cf. Rom. 5:3, ϰαυϰώμεθα ἐν ταῖς θλίψεσɩν.
203Gk. ἐν τῇ σαϱϰί μου, “in my flesh.”
204Gk. ἀνταναπληϱѽ. The force of ἀντί in this compound is disputed. J. B. Lightfoot (ad loc.) renders it “I fill up on my part,” “I supplement,” and argues, on the basis of classical and Hellenistic occurrences of the verb, that “it signifies that the supply comes from an opposite quarter to the deficiency.” T. K. Abbott (ad loc.) points out, on the other hand, that in the two places in the NT where ἀναπληϱóω is used with ὑστέϱημα as its object (1 Cor. 16:17; Phil. 2:30), the supply equally comes from another quarter than the deficiency; the prefix ἀντί is not required to indicate this. Cf. also 2 Cor. 9:12; 11:9, where a different prefix is used (πϱοσαναπληϱóω ὑστέϱημα/ὑστέϱήματα). For ἀναπληϱόω see also C.H. 13.1, τὰ ὑστεϱήματα ἀναπλήϱωσον, “fill up what is lacking (in my knowledge).” It is simplest to regard the prefix ἀντί here as suggesting correspondence: to the deficiency corresponds the supply. See also p. 83, n. 210. On the history of the interpretation of Col. 1:24b see J. Kremer, Was an den Leiden Christi noch mangelt (Bonn, 1956).