Romans 16:2

in the Lord, as becometh saints With all the attention and delicacy due from Christians to a Christian woman.

assist her Lit. (in the lit sense of "assist,") stand by her. What Phœbe's business at Rome was, is quite unknown to us. It may have concerned property, and involved enquiries and directions about law. Or it may have been (though less probably) religious business.

a succourer Lit. a champion; one who stands beforeanother. The word conveys a graceful allusion to the request that they would "stand by" Phœbe: she had "stood before" many a needing and suffering Christian.

of myself also Very probably at some time of illness, such as that other time which apparently delayed him in Galatia, on his first visit there, and called out the sympathetic love of the Galatians. (Galatians 4:13-15; where read, "on account of weakness of the flesh;" i.e. "because of illness").