“ Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you. ”
Luke, the beloved physician - This was undoubtedly the author of the Gospel which bears his name, and of the Acts of the Apostles. He is mentioned as the traveling companion of Paul in Acts 17:1...
Commendations and Salutations. Colossians 4:7 . Tychicus: cf. Acts 20:4 ; Ephesians 6:21 ; Titus 3:12 ; 2 Timothy 4:12 . Colossians 4:9 . Onesimus: there is a touch of gentle humour in...
Demas . See 2 Timothy 4:10 . Phm. Colossians 1:24 .
14. Luke saluteth you. I do not agree with those who understand this to be Luke the Evangelist; for I am of opinion that he was too well known to stand in need of such a designation, and he...
Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you. Luke, the beloved physician - This is generally supposed to be the same with Luke the evangelist. See the preface to the notes on this gospel. Some,...
Luke, the beloved physician,— From comparing this with Colossians 4:11 , where St. Paul says he had no fellow-labourer of the circumcision but those whom he had named, Lord Barrington concludes th...
Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you. Luke, the beloved physician (the evangelist) - may have first become connected with Paul in professionally attending on him in the sickness...
Exhortation and Greeting 2-6. Exhortation to prayer and wisdom in dealing with heathen.
[ 7. Conclusion of the Epistle. (1) FINAL EXHORTATION to prayer (especially for St. Paul himself), and to wisdom towards those without, both in deed and in word ( Colossians 4:2-6 ). (2) COMMEN...
Chapter 4 SALUTATIONS FROM THE PRISONER'S FRIENDS Colossians 4:10-14 (R.V.) Here are men of different races, unknown to each other by face, clasping hands across the seas, and feeling that the...
Christian Greetings Colossians 4:10-18 What a noble group had gathered round the Apostle in his enforced residence in Rome! That hired room of his must have been filled time after time with mos...
The true purpose of life for the saints and faithful in Christ is to the maintenance of a twofold relationship- toward God, and toward those who are without. The first is covered by prayer as it incl...
(7) All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord: (8) Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might k...
LUKE THE EVANGELIST ‘Luke, the beloved physician.’ Colossians 4:14 St. Luke is said to have been born at Antioch; the probability, therefore, is that he was, as Jerome says, a Syrian, and th...
Luke, the beloved physician ,.... Luke the Evangelist, though some doubt it, is here intended, who was a constant companion of the apostle in his troubles, and went with him to Rome, as the Acts of...
Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you. Ver. 14. And Demas ] He will needs be one, and is, but without any title of honour, as the rest. He began to be suspected; and he afterwards pro...
Epaphras, always labouring Αγωνιζομενος, striving , or agonizing; for you in prayers The word properly denotes contending, or combating in the games; here it signifies the greatest fervency of d...
There is no reason for a chapter division at this point, for the responsibility of masters is closely linked with that of servants, which we have seen would include the relationship between employers...
Various Salutations. A. D. 62. 7 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a be...
Luke, the beloved physician; whether this Luke was the same with him that penned the Gospel and the Acts, because the apostle here gives him no higher a commendation, some doubt. But others, and th...
‘Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas salute you.' Luke was a regular companion of Paul (note the ‘we' passages in Acts - see Acts 16:10-16 ; Acts 20:6 to Acts 21:18 and probably after; Acts...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Colossians 4:17 . And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry. —He is again closely connected with Colossæ in the epistle to Philemon. A monition perhaps neede...
Colossians 4:14 (with 2 Timothy 4:9-11 ) I. St. Luke was a physician. After a while he becomes a Christian physician. He becomes a physician to the souls as well as to the bodies of his fellow...
Colossians 4:1 . Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal. Paul doubles the precept here, reminding them that one is their master, who is Lord of heaven and earth. He well knew...
Luke the beloved physician and Demas greet you. Luke the beloved physician At the moment of the transition of Christianity from Asia to Europe he was enrolled among St. Paul’s companions. We as...
EXPOSITION Colossians 4:1 (See Colossians 3:1-51 .) Colossians 4:2-51 SECTION IX . PRAYER AND SOCIAL CONVERSE . There are added some brief exhortations of a more general t...
Greetings from various persons in Rome:
2 Timothy 4:10 ; 2 Timothy 4:11 ; Philemon 1:24
Luke, the physician — Such he had been, at least, if he was not then.