ἐγὼ Τέρτιος ὁ γράψας τὴν ἐπιστολήν : the use of the first person is a striking indication of Paul's courtesy. To have sent the greeting of his amanuensis in the third person would have been to treat him as a mere machine (Godet). ἐν Κυρίῳ goes with ἀσπάζομαι : it is as a Christian, not in virtue of any other relation he has to the Romans, that Tertius salutes them.

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