does in vice lists: see, e.g., 1 Cor 4:21; Gal 5:23; Eph 4:2; Col 3:12; 2 Tim 2:25; Titus 3:2; 1 Pet 3:4, 15. In combination with “quick to hear” and “receive the word,” the term suggests an attitude of receptivity and docility in contrast to angry aggressiveness and self-assertiveness. The textual variant “meekness of wisdom” can be accounted for by assimilation to 3:13. The scribes who supplied that reading can at least be credited with literary sensitivity, for the passages definitely illumine