Note 259 — Chapter XXXII
Reading edition
See on προστάτις below.
[260] See 1 Cor. xvi. 19.
[261] Pp. 171-178 (eighth edition).
[262] Lit., "did prove": it is the epistolary aorist.
[263] Read Πρίσκαν not Πρίσκιλλαν.
[264] By the late Dean Howson, in Smith's Bible Dictionary.
[265] So certainly read, not Ἀχαΐας.
[266] Reading ὑμᾶς.
[267] The perfect, γέγονασι, γέγοναν, imports the permanence of their blessed position, up to the date.
[268] See above, p. 425, on this allusion, and on Herodion, and on "Narcissus' people."
[269] In our short Commentary on the Epistle in The Cambridge Bible we advocate a rather different view of these verses in detail. But the main reference seems to us to be what it then seemed.
[270] Ver. 24 is probably to be omitted, as an insertion after date.
[271] Gal. vi. 11: "See with what great letters I have written to you, in autograph!" It has been remarked that this great Doxology bears a literary likeness to other passages which he probably wrote with his own hand.