By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
Ver. 12. I have written briefly] Gr. In few. The Holy Scripture hath fulness of matter in fewness of words, the whole counsel of God shut up in a narrow compass. The Lord knows that much reading is a weariness of the flesh, Ecclesiastes 12:12, and hath therefore provided for our infirmity.