For from the plantation and good success of the gospel among you it was, that many others in those places were inclined to receive the faith, and so your conversion being so eminently taken notice of, I need say no more in praise or congratulation of it. ² fulmas, πληροφορία: see Col. ii. 2. ³ hath gone forth, ἐξελῆλωθεν. ³ became, ἐγενήθημεν. When this epistle hath been read in your assembly, let a copy of it be sent to Laodicea, that it may be read there; and in like manner take order that you receive from the Laodiceans, and read that epistle which comes to them. And bid Archippus (who now probably was placed and resided bishop at Colosse) be careful to discharge that trust duly which from Christ is committed to him.