4:15 In addition to the neighboring Laodicean Christians, Paul sent greetings to Nympha, possibly the hostess of a Laodicean house-church. There is no evidence that Christians met in church buildings until the third century.185The early Christians seem to have chosen their meeting places on the basis of convenience and expediency.
4:16 Paul's letter to the Laodiceans was probably not an inspired one and has evidently been lost (cf. 1 Cor. 5:9). This seems more likely than that Paul was referring to the Epistle to the Ephesians here.186
4:17 Archippus seems to have been Philemon's son (Phile. 2). Perhaps he was a gifted young man whom Paul wished to encourage. The idea that he was the present leader of the Colossian church is only a possibility that some commentators have suggested.
