With a holy kiss; the common sign and pledge of Christian love in those days. Christian affection is always the same in its nature, but the modes of expressing it differ at different periods and in different nations. Those modes should be observed which are commonly esteemed suitable, and which are adapted to be useful.
Verse Romans 16:16. _SALUTE ONE ANOTHER WITH A HOLY KISS._] In those early times the _kiss_, as a token of _peace, friendship_, and _brotherly love_, was frequent among all people; and the Christians...
SALUTE ONE ANOTHER - Greet one another in an affectionate mannner; that is, treat each other with kindness and love, and evince all proper marks of affection. WITH AN HOLY KISS - This mode of salutati...
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. ...
PERSONAL GREETINGS. Beside the two household groups of Romans 16:10 f., the catalogue contains twenty-six names, eight being those of women. Many of the names appearing were commonly borne by slaves....
A LETTER OF COMMENDATION (Romans 16:1-2)...
Give my greetings to Tryphaena and Tryphosa who toil in the Lord. Give my greetings to Persis, the beloved, who has toiled hard in the Lord. Give my greetings to Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and to his...
AN. a. HOLY KISS. Compare 1 Corinthians 16:20; 2 Corinthians 13:12. 1Th 5:26. 1 Peter 5:14. The kiss was, and is, in the East. sign of respect and affection. Compare the other two occurances o
_Salute one another_ As if to respond to the example set them in the Apostle's loving greetings. _a holy kiss_ So 1 Corinthians 16:20; 2 Corinthians 13:12; 1Th 5:26; 1 Peter 5:14. See also...
ἘΝ ΦΙΛ. ἉΓΊΩΙ. Cf. 1 Corinthians 16:20; 2 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:26; 1 Peter 5:14 (ἀγάπης):
Greetings to Christians at Rome. 3–16. Greetings; see Lightfoot, _Phil._ pp. 171 ff. S. H. _ad loc_[317] [317] _ad loc._ ad locum...
ΦΊΛΗΜΑ (G5370) поцелуй. Об этом обычае _см._ TDNT; 1 Cor. 16:20....
_TEXT_ Romans 16:1-16. I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church that is at Cenchreae: 2 that ye receive her in the Lord, worthily of the saints, and that ye assist her in...
Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you. Salute one another with an holy kiss. (So ; ; .) The custom prevailed among the Jews, and doubtless came from the East, wher...
__ 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...
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...
SALUTE ONE ANOTHER. — As a mark of brotherly feeling among themselves, St. Paul desires those who are assembled at the reading of his Epistle to greet each other in a Christian way. It is to be their...
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...
ἀλλήλους. When the epistle is read in the Church the Christians are to greet each other, and seal their mutual salutations ἐν φιλήματι ἁγίῳ. In 1 Thessalonians 5:26 the προιστάμενοι apparently are to...
PERSONAL INTEREST IN FELLOW-CHRISTIANS Romans 16:1 Here is a window into Paul's heart. He was apparently disowned by his own kindred, yet, as the Lord had promised, He had mothers, sisters, and broth...
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...
Salute one another with an holy (e) kiss. The churches of Christ salute you. (e) He calls that a holy kiss which proceeds from a heart that is full of that holy love: now this is to be understood as...
Thus the primitive Christians express their concord and benevolence, as also their perfect equality. For it was customary with the Persians, and all oriental nations, to salute only their equals thus;...
“ _Salute one another with an holy kiss. All the churches of Christ salute you._ ” The apostle has just saluted in his own name the influential members of the different flocks of the church of Rome; b...
To the recommendation of Phoebe, the apostle joins a list of _salutations_, which might indeed still be called recommendations; for the imperative ἀσπάσασθε, _greet_, fifteen times repeated, is addres...
THIRTIETH PASSAGE (16:1-16). RECOMMENDATIONS, SALUTATIONS, WARNING. It is the apostle's custom, when closing his letters, to treat a number of particular subjects of a more or less personal nature, su...
Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. (9) Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. (10) Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' household. (11) Sal...
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...
16._Salute one another with a holy kiss _It is clear from many parts of Scripture, that a kiss was a usual and common symbol of friendship among the Jews; it was perhaps less used by the Romans, thoug...
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...
SALUTE ONE ANOTHER WITH AN HOLY KISS,.... Christian salutation is a wishing all temporal, spiritual, and eternal happiness, to one another; and which, as it should be mutual, should be also hearty and...
Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you. Ver. 16. _With a holy kiss_] The Independents at Arnheim in Holland propounded this kiss of love to be practised among them. S...
_Salute one another with a holy kiss_ “The Jews considered the _kiss_ as an expression of friendship. Thus Joab, pretending great friendship to Amasa, took him by the beard to kiss him, when he slew h...
Greetings sent by Paul to friends and acquaintances:...
SALUTE ONE ANOTHER WITH AN HOLY KISS. THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST SALUTE YOU. This is a beautiful passage and most interesting on account of the light which it throws upon the intimacy of love which united...
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...
Salute = greet, accept, receive Holy kiss = custom of greeting - USA, shake hands Japan, bow Russia - kiss on each cheek Churches of Christ salute you A. Is this the name of the church? B. What a...
SALUTE ONE ANOTHER WITH. HOLY KISS. ALL THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST SALUTE YOU. 'with. holy kiss'. (1 Corinthians 16:20; 2 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:26;...
1-16 Paul recommends Phebe to the Christians at Rome. It becomes Christians to help one another in their affairs, especially strangers; we know not what help we may need ourselves. Paul asks help for...
From greeting them himself, he proceeds to exhort them to greet or SALUTE ONE ANOTHER: this he adviseth them to do WITH AN HOLY KISS. You have the same exhortation, in 1 Corinthians 16:20 2 Corinthian...
Salute one another with a holy kiss. [Osculatory salutation has always been common in the East (2 Samuel 20:9; Luke 7:45; Matthew 26:49). It early became an established practice among the Jews, from w...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III For this very thing, the shameless use of a kiss, which ought to be mystic, occasions foul suspicions and evil reports. The apostle calls the kiss holy....
Romans 16:16 Greet G782 (G5663) another G240 with G1722 holy G40 kiss G5370 churches G1577 Christ G5547 greet...
1). FINAL GREETINGS AND EXHORTATIONS (16:1-16). It is unusual to find such a detailed list of people to be greeted in Paul's letters. Indeed, in most of his letters no specific person is individually...
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...
‘Salute one another with a holy kiss.' The kiss, probably usually on the cheek, was a well known form of Christian greeting. Compare 1 Corinthians 16:20; 2Co 13:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:26; 1 Peter 5:14....
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...
2. _Greetings to different Persons at Rome._ The bearer of the letter is commended in vers, 1, 2. Then follow greetings to many individuals, and to some households or household churches. About one thi...
Romans 16:16. SALUTE ONE ANOTHER WITH A HOLY KISS. ‘The meaning of this injunction seems to be, that the Roman Christians should take occasion, on the receipt of the Apostle's greetings to them, to te...
WITH A HOLY KISS (εν φιληματ αγιω). The near-east mode of salutation as hand-shaking in the Western. In China one shakes hands with himself. Men kissed men and women kissed women. See Romans 16:1; 1...
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...
WITH A BROTHERLY KISS. _Denny_ says: "The custom of combining greeting and kiss was oriental, and especially Jewish, and in this way became Christian." Our equivalent would be a _warm handshake._ ALL...
THE CONCLUSION OF THE EPISTLE 1. This is scarcely the kind of conclusion that one would have expected. One would have thought that the rapt apostle, having been borne to the loftiest circles of conte...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 16:16 Christians greeted one another with a HOLY KISS to show their warm affection (see note on 1 Cor. 16:20; also...
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 16:7. MY KINSMEN.—Kindred. Perhaps in this passage the wider sense of fellow-countrymen. It is difficult to state what is the imprisonment here mentioned. Romans 16:8.—Amplias...
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 Corinthians 16:20; 1 Peter 5:14; 1 Thessalonians 5:26; 2 Corinthians 13:12;...
Kiss. Compare 1 Corinthians 16:20; 2 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:26; 1 Peter 5:14....
THE WOMEN OF THE EARLY CHURCH Romans 16:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is, perhaps, no one chapter in the Bible which so marvelously reveals the womanhood of the early church, as the women described in...
Salute one another with an holy kiss — Termed by St. Peter, "the kiss of love," 1 Peter 5:14. So the ancient Christians concluded all their solemn offices; the men saluting the men, and the women the...
Observe here, How the apostle proceeds from greeting the saints at Rome himself, to persuade them to salute one another. There had been much dissension amongst them about meats and days; he therefore...