17 That is, the elders of Josh. 24:31; Judg. 2:7.
17That is, the elders of Josh. 24:31; Judg. 2:7.
18Probably the high priest Simon II (c. 200 B.C.).
19Pirqê ’Abôt 1.1.
20Gk. τὴν παϱάδοσιν τῶν ἀνθϱώπων (“human tradition”), as in Mark 7:8.
21Gk. ὡς οὖν παϱελάβετε τòν Xϱιστòν Ἰησοῦν τòν ϰύϱιον. J. B. Lightfoot renders the last five words “the Christ, even Jesus the Lord,” and suggests that this expression “might seem to be directed against the tendency to separate the heavenly Christ from the earthly Jesus, as though the connexion were only transient” (Colossians and Philemon, p. 112).
22Gk. παϱαλαμβάνω (equivalent to Heb. qibbēl, used in the first clause of the quotation from Pirqê’Abôt above). It appears in this sense in Col. 4:17; 1 Cor. 11:23; 15:1, 3; Gal. 1:9, 12; Phil. 4:9; 1 Thess. 2:13; 4:1; 2 Thess. 3:6 (for the related noun παϱάδοσις in a Christian sense cf. 1 Cor. 11:2; 2 Thess. 2:15; 3:6). In 1 Cor. 11:23 and 15:3 παϱαλαμβάνω is accompanied by its correlative verb παϱαδίδωμι, “deliver” (the equivalent of Heb. māśar, so used in the above quotation from Pirqê ’Abôt); cf. Luke 1:2; Acts 6:14; 16:4; Rom. 6:17; 1 Cor. 11:2; 2 Pet. 2:21; Jude 3.