Word Pictures In The New Testament Vol 6 General Epistles and Revelation by A. T. Robertson

Author:A. T. Robertson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-10-28T00:00:00+00:00

Verse 13

I had (eichon). Imperfect active of echô, when I began to write (grapsai, ingressive aorist active infinitive of graphô). I am unwilling to write (ou thelô graphein). "I do not wish to go on writing them. With ink and pen (dia melanos kai kalamou), "by means of (dia) black (ink) and reed (used as pen)." See 2Jn 1:12 for melanos and Mat 11:7 for kalamos, used for papyrus and parchment, as grapheion (a sharp stilus) for wax tablets.

Verse 14

I hope (elpizô) --We shall speak (lalêsomen). Literary plural really singular like elpizô. Face to face (stoma pros stoma). As in 2Jn 1:12. Peace to thee (eirênê soi). Pax tibi like the Jewish greeting shal“m (Luke 10:5; Luke 24:36; John 20:19, 21). The friends (hoi philoi). Those in Ephesus. By name (kat' onoma). John knew the friends in the church (at Pergamum or wherever it was) as the good shepherd calls his sheep by name (John 10:3, the only other N.T. example of kat' onoma). The idiom is common in the papyri letters (Deissmann, Light, etc., p. 193, note 21).

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