Reading for June 23rd

Read Colossians 4.7-18
In 4.7-18: Epistolary closing.
A reemphasizes on the importance of maturity and commendation of persons firmly entrenched in the ethos of the new dominion.
In verses 7-10: Tychichus, Aristatchus, see Acts 20.4.
In verse 14: See Philem 23.
In verse 15: Nympha: Some manuscripts treat Nympha as a female name, others as a male name, perhaps because a scribe who did not consider the possibility of woman's owning a house, though the patronage of women in early Christianity is generally accepted.
In verse 16: The letter from Laodicea is lost, though Marcion, an early Christian writer who died around 160 CE, thought it was our letter tot he Ephesians.
In verse 17: Archippus, see Philem 2.
In verse 18: A scribe would have written the letter, with the author approving the dictation in his own hand.
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