Πρῖσκαν καὶ Ἀκύλαν : The same unusual order, the wife before the husband, is found in Romans 16:3; Acts 18:18; Acts 18:26, but not in Acts 18:2; 1 Corinthians 16:19. “Probably Prisca was of higher rank than her husband, for her name is that of a good old Roman family [the Acilian gens]. Aquila was probably a freedman. The name does indeed occur as cognomen in some Roman families; but it was also a slave name, for a freedman of Maecenas was called (C. Cilnius) Aquila” (Ramsay, St. Paul the Traveller, pp. 268, 269; see also Sanday and Headlam, Romans, p. 118 sqq.).

τὸν Ὀνησιφόρου οἶκον : Their names are inserted after Ἀκύλαν from the Acts of Paul and Thecla, by the cursives 46 and 109: Λέκτραν τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ καὶ Σιμαίαν καὶ Ζήνωνα τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ.

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