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This collection of three commentaries in one volume completes F. F. Bruce’s lifelong study of Paul’s writings. With the publication of this volume, Bruce—one of the most respected New Testament scholars in the world—finished writing commentaries on all the Pauline epistles except the Pastorals. According to Bruce, there are important reasons for linking Colossians, Philemon, and Ephesians...

participle in the Greek text) being understood from v. 21.79 There is no special emphasis on the pronoun “own” in “your own husbands” (as though a contrast were pointed between their own husbands and other women’s husbands); it might be said that we have here an instance of the “exhausted” use of this pronoun, but it seems to have been a feature of household codes.80 Whereas in Col. 3:18 wives are told to be subject to their husbands “as is fitting in the Lord,” the phrase here, “as to the Lord,”81
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