Verse 13
13. Till I come The Greek present indicative implies here a confident expectation. But when Paul came, what then?
To reading… exhortation… doctrine That is, teaching. All three appear to be named as public exercises. The reading does not refer to private study; but the public reading in the Churches of the Old Scripture, or perhaps the gospels so far as published, or apostolic epistles. It was thus that the books of the New Testament became Scripture in the early Church.
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