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To wit. Not in the Greek. But the infinitive (einai) clause is epexegetical and gives the content of the revelation, a common idiom in the N.T. Ta ethnē is in the accusative of general reference. Paul is fond of compounds with sun and here uses three of them.
Fellow-heirs (sunklēronoma). Late and rare (Philo, inscriptions and papyri). See also Rom 8:17.
Fellow-members of the body (sunsōma). First found here and only here save in later ecclesiastical writers. Preuschen argues that it is equivalent to sundoulos in Col 1:7 (sōma in sense of doulos).
Fellow-partakers (sunmetocha). Another late and rare word (Josephus). Only here in N.T. In one papyrus in sense of joint possessor of a house.