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Romans 16:21
Timotheus, my work-fellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.
Timotheus, my work-fellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.
Verse 21. _TIMOTHEUS MY WORKFELLOW_] This is on all hands allowed to be the same _Timothy_ to whom St. Paul directs the two epistles which are still extant. See some account of him in the notes on Act...
TIMOTHEUS - Timothy; to whom the Epistles which bear his name were written. He was long the companion of Paul in his labors; Act 16:1; 1 Corinthians 16:10; 2 Corinthians 1:1,...
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. Greetings to Individuals. (Romans 16:1 .)_ 2. Warning and Comfort. (Romans 16:17 .) 3. The Final Salutations. (Romans 16:21 .) 4. The Conclusion. ...
GREETING FROM PAUL'S FRIENDS IN CORINTH. Romans 16:21. Timothy was by Paul's side during this period (see Acts 19:22; Acts 20:4; 2 Corinthians 1:1
A LETTER OF COMMENDATION (Romans 16:1-2)...
Timothy, my fellow-worker, sends you his greetings, as do Lucius, Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen. I Tertius, who wrote this letter, send you my greetings in the Lord. Gaius, whose hospitality I and t...
THE FIRST POSTSCRIPT (TERTIUS). TIMOTHEUS. Timothy. See Acts 16:1. WORKFELLOW. fellow-labourer. See Romans 16:3. LUCIUS. Probably referred to in Acts 13:1. Not Luke. JASON. Only here, unless the Ja
Salutations 21. _Timotheus my workfellow_ Cp. especially Philippians 2:19-22 with this brief allusion to this singularly beloved and honoured friend and helper of the Apostle. His name appears in ele...
Greetings from companions of the writer. 21–23. Greetings from companions....
ΤΙΜ. Ὁ ΣΥΝΕΡΓΌΣ ΜΟΥ. Cf. on 3. The last we have heard of Timothy is in 2 Corinthians 1:1. He probably accompanied S. Paul to Corinth; unless we detect him in 2 Corinthians 8:18. ΛΟΎΚΙΟΣ. Perh. = Acts...
ΑΣΠΆΖΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΑΣΠΆΖΟΜΑΙ (G782) приветствовать (_см._ Romans 16:3)....
_TEXT_ Romans 16:17-27. Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them. Romans 16:...
Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. TIMOTHEUS MY WORK-FELLOW - `my fellow-labourer' (see Acts 16:1). The apostle (as Bengel says) mentions him he...
__ Paul's Intended Journey 28 During Paul's first three ministries the nations were dependent on Israel, and received of their spiritual things. Hence they were indebted to them and sought to pay by...
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 the g...
LUCIUS] cp. Acts 13:1. JASON] cp. Acts 17:5. SOSIPATER] cp. Acts 20:11. KINSMEN] cp. Romans 16:7....
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 16 PERSONAL GREETINGS Sometimes a church leader may seem very strict when he *preaches. There are some very serious ma...
(21-23) The companions of St. Paul add their own greetings to the Roman Church....
TIMOTHEUS. — Timothy had been sent on in advance from Ephesus (Acts 20:22). He would seem to have gone on into Greece and to Corinth itself (1 Corinthians 4:17; 1 Corinthians 16:10). He had thence rej...
CHAPTER 32 A COMMENDATION; GREETINGS; A WARNING; A DOXOLOGY Romans 16:1 ONCE more, with a reverent license of thought, we may imagine ourselves to be watching in detail the scene in the house of Gai...
Τιμόθεος. In many of the epistles Timothy's name is associated with Paul's in the opening salutation (1 and 2 Thess., 2 Cor., Phil., Col., Philemon). Perhaps when Paul began this letter he was absent,...
Greetings of Paul's companions....
RECEIVE HELPERS: SHUN HINDERERS Romans 16:17 Those who cause divisions on obscure points of doctrine are to be avoided, lest they lead us away from the fundamentals. We need to be wise in heavenly w...
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 spec...
(5) Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. (5) He adds salutations, partly to renew mutual friendship, and partly to the end that this epistle might be...
“ _Timothy my fellow-worker, saluteth you, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my countrymen.I Tertius, who wrote this Epistle, salute you in the Lord. Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, salu...
Timothy my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. (22) I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord. (23) Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, salu...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
21._Timothy, etc. _The salutations which he records, served in part to foster union between those who were far asunder, and in part to make the Romans know that their brethren subscribed to the Epistl...
Never having known the Roman Christians as an assembly, Paul sends many personal salutations. This was the link which subsisted. We see how touchingly his heart dwells upon all the details of service...
TIMOTHEUS MY WORK FELLOW,.... Now follow the salutations of the friends and companions of the apostle: we may imagine that when this epistle was just concluding, that these his friends being about him...
Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. Ver. 21. _Timotheus my workfellow_] Of Timothy, read Acts 16:1,2. Of Lucius, Acts 13:1. Of Jason, Acts 17:5. Of...
_Timotheus my work-fellow_ Or _fellow labourer, and Lucius,_ &c _., salute you_ Desire that their sincere love and Christian friendship may be testified to you. As Timothy had never been at Rome, he i...
MY WORK - FELLOW; companion in labor....
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 sense...
TIMOTHY MY FELLOW-WORKER SALUTETH YOU; AND LUCIUS AND JASON AND SOSIPATER, MY KINSMEN. 'Timothy' -a naive of Lystra,. convert of Paul's, whom Paul had chosen to travel with him. (Acts 16:1) 'First am...
21-24 The apostle adds affectionate remembrances from persons with him, known to the Roman Christians. It is a great comfort to see the holiness and usefulness of our kindred. Not many mighty, not man...
As before he saluted divers persons himself, so now he sendeth the salutation of others to the church of Rome. This he doth to show the mutual amity and love that is and ought to be between Christians...
Timothy [Acts 16:1-4; 2 Corinthians 1:1, and Epistles to Timothy] _my fellow-worker saluteth you; and Lucius_ [Acts 13:1 (?)] _and Jason_ [Acts 17:5;
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VI rough the whole world, and have left to you the bishops and to the rest of the priests this very Catholic doctrine worthily and righteously, as a memorial or...
Romans 16:21 Timothy G5095 my G3450 worker G4904 and G2532 Lucius G3066 G2532 Jason G2394 and G2532 Sosipater...
4). FINAL GREETINGS (16:1-27). We now come to the close of the letter. This final chapter divides up into three subsections: 1) Final greetings and exhortations (Romans 16:1). 2) Exhortation to bew...
GREETINGS FROM HIS FELLOW-WORKERS (16:21-24). Paul now sends greeting from his fellow-workers. He may well have had in mind the need to establish the authority of those referred to in the service of...
‘Timothy my fellow-worker salutes you; and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.' Timothy is described as Paul's fellow-worker. For a time he had been Paul's constant companion, and his name was...
3. _Closing Exhortation, with Greetings from Various Persons._ The warning of this section (Romans 16:17-20) indicates, not the presence of false teachers at Rome, but rather the danger of such person...
Romans 16:21. TIMOTHY, MY FELLOW-WORKER, SATUTETH YOU. That Timothy was with Paul at this time appears from Acts 20:4. LUCIUS. Not ‘Luke' but possibly ‘Lucius of Cyrene' (Acts 13:1). JASON. This ma...
III. CONCLUDING PORTION OF THE EPISTLE. This part of the Epistle may be divided into four sections, (1) Personal explanations, similar to those in chap. Romans 1:8-15 (chap. Romans 15:14-33). (2.) Gre...
Verses Romans 16:21-23 form a sort of postscript with greetings from Paul's companions in Corinth. Timothy was with Paul in Macedonia (2 Corinthians 1:1) before he came to Corinth. Lucius may be the o...
CONTENTS: The outflow of Christian love. Closing salutations and benediction. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, many of the gospel helpers, Satan. CONCLUSION: Courtesy and Christianity go together. Ackn...
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 purified o...
TIMOTHY. He was one of Paul's associates. He was with Paul (Acts 20:4-5) when he began his trip to Jerusalem (_mentioned in_ Romans 15:25). The other three cannot be identified. [The _names_ are found...
_Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you._ TIMOTHEUS THE WORKFELLOW I. What co-operation in the cause of Christ implies. 1. One faith. 2. One spirit....
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 16:21 Those who are with Paul greet the Romans. TIMOTHY is probably Paul’s most beloved coworker in ministry. LUCIUS is unknown. JASON is likely the same person named
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 16:1 Paul warmly greets those he knows in Rome. He is able to say something specific about almost every person greeted. ⇐...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 16:21.—Timothy and Sosipater with St. Paul at Corinth, where he wrote this epistle. Lucius perhaps St. Luke. Romans 16:22.—Tertius, a secretary with a Roman name to write to...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 16:1 K. _Commendation of Phoebe, and salutations to Christians at Rome._ ROMANS 16:1, ROMANS 16:2 I co
Chapter 16 is just personal greetings to many of those in Rome. We are going to go rather rapidly through it, just pointing out a few things. First of all, Paul, commends unto you Phoebe our sister,...
1 Thessalonians 1:1; 1 Thessalonians 3:2; 1 Thessalonians 3:6; 1 Timothy 1:2;...
Lucius and Jason - Sosipater. For Lucius, see on Acts 13:1. Jason, possibly the Jason of Acts 17:5. Sosipater, possibly the Sopater of Acts 20:4. Both names were common....
Timotheus my fellowlabourer — Here he is named even before St. Paul's kinsmen. But as he had never been at Rome, he is not named in the beginning of the epistle....
Our apostle had, in the former part of the chapter, saluted divers persons himself; here he sends the salutations of those that were with him to the saints or Christians at Rome: hereby showing that m...