Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents

4:15 Nympha and the church in her house. On house churches, see note on 1 Cor. 16:19.

4:16 when this letter has been read among you. Public reading in the churches points to the authority of Paul's letters and also assumes that they were written to be understood by ordinary believers. the letter from Laodicea. Although some have thought this might be a reference to Ephesians (understood to be a circular letter, with Laodicea as one of its destinations) or a letter from the Laodiceans to Paul, it is probably best to take it as a reference to a letter Paul wrote to Laodicea that is now lost.

4:17 Archippus may have been the son of Philemon and Apphia (see Philem. 2).

4:18 Letter Closing. Paul ends his letter by asking the Colossian Christians to remember him before the Lord. I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. If Timothy has so far been functioning as Paul's secretary to whom he dictates the letter (see 1:1), Paul now takes the stylus and signs the letter personally (cf. 1 Cor. 16:21; 2 Thess. 3:17).