“ Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. ”
Personal Greetings. Beside the two household groups of Romans 16:10 f., the catalogue contains twenty-six names, eight being those of women. Many of the names appearing were commonly borne by sla...
Amplias . Only here. beloved . As in Romans 16:5 .
Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. Amplias, my beloved in the Lord - One who is my particular friend, and also a genuine Christian.
Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. Greet Amplias - a contracted form of 'Ampliatus;' My beloved in the Lord - an expression of dear Christian affection.
Greetings and Warnings 1-16. Commendation and greetings. Observe the number of women to whom the Apostle sends greeting. The fact is indicative of the change wrought in the position of women by t...
Amplias. — The three oldest MSS. have “Ampliatus,” for which “Amplias” would be in any case a contracted form. The name is a common one, in several instances found in connection with the imperial h...
Chapter 32 A COMMENDATION; GREETINGS; A WARNING; A DOXOLOGY Romans 16:1-27 ONCE more, with a reverent license of thought, we may imagine ourselves to be watching in detail the scene in the hou...
Personal Interest in Fellow-Christians Romans 16:1-16 Here is a window into Paul's heart. He was apparently disowned by his own kindred, yet, as the Lord had promised, He had mothers, sisters,...
In the salutation twenty-six persons are named. Two-thirds of these names are Greek, which, in all probability, are names of persons the apostle had actually known in his work in Asia. Phoebe was spe...
Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. (9) Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. (10) Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' household. (11) Sa...
Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. This was a Roman name; the Vulgate Latin reads "Ampliatus", and so do the Alexandrian copy, and the Ethiopic version: some call him "Amphias", and "Amphiatus",...
Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. Ver. 8. Greet Amplias ] Piety is no enemy to courtesy: it doth not remove, but rectify it.
Salute Andronicus and Junia Or, Junias rather, it being evidently the name of a man, as appears from the apostle's terming them both his kinsmen And saying, that they were of note among the ap...
Communications, Greetings and Closing This chapter has a character peculiar to itself; and being a fifth subdivision of the last division (Chapter s 12 to 16) of the book, we may expect in some se...
Friendly Salutations; Apostolic Salutations. A. D. 58. 1 I commend unto you Phebe our sister,...
Some translations call him Ampliatus; it is a Roman name. My beloved in the Lord; this is added, to show that he did not love him for his riches, or any outward respect, but for the Lord's sake; fo...
1). Final Greetings And Exhortations (16:1-16). It is unusual to find such a detailed list of people to be greeted in Paul's letters. Indeed, in most of his letters no specific person is individua...
CRITICAL NOTES Romans 16:7 . My kinsmen .—Kindred. Perhaps in this passage the wider sense of fellow-countrymen. It is difficult to state what is the imprisonment here mentioned. Romans 16:8-9...
Romans 16:1 . I commend to you Phebe a servant of the church. Διακονον, a deaconess of the church at Cenehrea, the eastern port of Corinth, where Paul shaved his head, that he might be purifie...
The conclusion of the Epistle 1. This is scarcely the kind of conclusion that one would have expected. One would have thought that the rapt apostle, having been borne to the loftiest circles of co...
EXPOSITION Romans 16:1-45 K. Commendation of Phoebe, and salutations to Christians at Rome. Romans 16:1 , Romans 16:2 I commend unto you Phoebe our sister ( i.e. fellow-Chr...
Greetings sent by Paul to friends and acquaintances:
1 John 3:14 ; Philippians 4:1 ; Romans 16:5
The Women of the Early Church Romans 16:1-16 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is, perhaps, no one chapter in the Bible which so marvelously reveals the womanhood of the early church, as the women desc...