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Who am a fellow-elder (ho sunpresbuteros). Earliest use of this compound in an inscription of b.c. 120 for fellow-elders (alderman) in a town, here only in N.T., in eccles. writers. For the word presbuteros in the technical sense of officers in a Christian church (like elder in the local synagogues of the Jews) see Act 11:30; Act 20:17. It is noteworthy that here Peter the Apostle (1Pe 1:1) calls himself an elder along with (sun) the other “elders.”
A witness (martus). This is what Jesus had said they must be (Act 1:8) and what Peter claimed to be (Act 3:15; Act 10:39). So Paul was to be a martus (Act 22:15).
Who am also a partaker (ho kai koinōnos). “The partner also,” “the partaker also.” See Luk 5:10; 2Co 1:7; 2Pe 1:4. See same idea in Rom 8:17. In Gal 3:23; Rom 8:18 we have almost this about the glory about to be revealed to us where mellō as here is used with the infinitive.