3Jo 14 | RWP | e4.org | I hope ( ελπιζω ) --We shall speak ( λαλησομεν ). Literary plural really singular like ελπιζω . Face to face ( στομα προς στομα ). As in . Peace to thee ( ειρηνη σο ). Pax tibi like the Jewish greeting shalom ( ; ; , ). The friends ( ο φιλο ). Those in Ephesus. By name ( κατ' ονομα ). John knew the friends in the church (at Pergamum or wherever it was) as the good shepherd calls his sheep by name ( , the only other N.T. example of κατ' ονομα ). The idiom is common in the papyri letters (Deissmann, Light , etc., p. 193, note 21).

‏ 3 John 14

I hope ( ελπιζω )

--We shall speak ( λαλησομεν ). Literary plural really singular like ελπιζω.

Face to face ( στομα προς στομα ). As in 2Jo 1:12.

Peace to thee ( ειρηνη σο ). Pax tibi like the Jewish greeting shalom (Lu 10:5; 24:36; Joh 20:19, 21).

The friends ( ο φιλο ). Those in Ephesus.

By name ( κατ' ονομα ). John knew the friends in the church (at Pergamum or wherever it was) as the good shepherd calls his sheep by name (Joh 10:3, the only other N.T. example of κατ' ονομα ). The idiom is common in the papyri letters (Deissmann, Light, etc., p. 193, note 21).