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And above all these things (epi pāsin de toutois). “And upon all these things.”
Put on love (tēn agapēn). See Luk 3:20. The verb has to be supplied (endusasthe) from Col 3:12 as the accusative case agapēn shows.
Which is (ho estin). Neuter singular of the relative and not feminine like agapē (the antecedent) nor masculine like sundesmos in the predicate. However, there are similar examples of ho estin in the sense of quod est (id est), “that is,” in Mar 14:42; Mar 15:42, without agreement in gender and number. So also Eph 5:5 where ho estin = “which thing.”
The bond of perfectness (sundesmos tēs teleiotētos). See note on Col 2:19 for sundesmos. Here it is apparently the girdle that holds the various garments together. The genitive (teleiotētos) is probably that of apposition with the girdle of love. In a succinct way Paul has here put the idea about love set forth so wonderfully in 1Co 13:1-13.