Eph 3:2. Εἴγε ἠκούσατε, since[39] indeed ye have heard) The things which they had heard concerning Paul (comp. note on Eph 1:1[40]) were a testimony that he, Eph 3:1, spoke the truth concerning himself.
[39] Or if: but the Indic. favours since.-ED.
[40] Viz. They bad heard of his bonds, and of his being persecuted by the Jews for his preaching to the Gentiles. This hearing was not restricted to the Ephesians; but applies to all, to whom, in the different churches, this encyclical letter was to be carried by Tychicus.-ED.