Amen. — The weight of MS. authority is decidedly in favour of retaining this word, though it is omitted by three MSS. of some importance.
It does not, however, follow that the benediction was intended, as some have thought, to close the Epistle. Intercalated benedictions and doxologies are frequent in the writings of St. Paul. (Comp. Romans 9:5; Romans 11:36; Galatians 5; Ephesians 3:20-21, et al.)