Philippians 4:22

All God's people here. He expands this greeting to include all the Christians at Rome. [Saints: see note on 1 Corinthians 6:11.] The Emperor's Palace. The Expositor's Greek Testament says: "SH. point out that a number of the names mentioned for salutation in Romans 16 occur in the Corpus of Latin Inscriptions as members of the Imperial household, which seems to have been one of the chief centers of the Christian community at Rome. In the first century A.D. most of the Emperor's household servants came from the East. Under Claudius and Nero they were people of real importance. And we find, from history, that Christian slaves had great influence over their masters." Traditional history links Seneca, brother of Gallio (Acts 18:12), with Paul. Josephus identifies Nero's wife Poppaea as a Gentile converted to Judaism (proselyte of the gate), and some think she might have become a Christian. We have no way of knowing for sure about this, but Paul cites the Christians in the Emperor's Palace as evidence of his success in his service to Christ.