Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Note:

This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Bold font is delimited by the ‘=’ character. Superscripted and subscripted characters are shown as ‘^2’ and ‘_{2}’ respectively. Emphasized words in Greek are, by convention, printed using wider spacing (_gesperrt_). The ‘_’ character is used as a delimiter in this version, e.g. (μιμηταί _μου γίνεσθε_).

The original text includes annotations on two Greek texts, the Epistle to the Colossians, and an Epistle to Philemon. On each page, several lines of Greek are accompanied by a double column of notations on key words. It was not possible to follow that convention in this version, given the nature of our medium.

Any hyphenations in the Greek text that occurred on page breaks have been removed, and the word's end has been moved to the previous page. On many occasions, a note appears on an earlier page than the text it glosses. In this version, the notes have been arranged so that each _follows_ the text to which it refers.

There are Greek inscriptions printed in an uncial font, and using a lunate sigma (ϲ). These will appear here as ==μιμηταί μου γίνεϲθε==. The occasional blackletter font appears here as ‘=blackletter text=’.

Footnotes have been moved to follow each paragraph, and are resequenced to be unique across the text. Any internal references to those notes have been modified as well.

The section entitled AD LAODICENSES presents the text of an apocryphal letter from St Paul. Given the brevity of the text, these notes are gathered after the letter.

The index includes references to both pages and to the verses of the two Epistles included here. Those references to a verse may refer to either the Greek itself, or to any of the notes on that verse.

Please consult the note at the end of this text for any other issues that arose during its presentation.

THE EPISTLES OF ST PAUL.

III.

THE FIRST ROMAN CAPTIVITY.

2.

EPISTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS.

3.

EPISTLE TO PHILEMON.

=Cambridge:=
PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

ST PAUL’S
EPISTLES TO THE COLOSSIANS
AND TO
PHILEMON.

_A REVISED TEXT_

WITH

INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, AND DISSERTATIONS.

BY

J. B. LIGHTFOOT, D.D.

CANON OF ST PAUL’S;
HULSEAN PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY,
AND
HONORARY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

=London:=
_MACMILLAN AND CO._
1875.

[_All Rights reserved._]

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==μιμηταί μου γίνεϲθε καθὼϲ κἀγὼ χριϲτοῦ.==

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Παῦλος γενόμενος μέγιστος ὑπογραμμός.

CLEMENT.

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Οὐχ ὡς Παῦλος διατάσσομαι ὑμῖν· ἐκεῖνος ἀπόστολος,
ἐγὼ κατάκριτος· ἐκεῖνος ἐλεύθερος, ἐγὼ δὲ μέχρι νῦν
δοῦλος.

IGNATIUS.

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Οὔτε ἐγὼ οὔτε ἄλλος ὅμοιος ἐμοί δύναται κατακολουθῆσαι
τῇ σοφίᾳ τοῦ μακαρίου καὶ ἐνδόξου Παύλου.

POLYCARP.

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