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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 16:5-7

Most of the people mentioned in these verses require no explanatory comment. "Asia" (Romans 16:5) was the Roman province of Asia of which Ephesus was the capital. Junias (or Junia, Romans 16:7) was probably the wife of Andronicus (cf. Romans 16:3; Romans 16:15). The term "kinsmen" or "relatives" (Romans 16:7; cf. Romans 16:11; Romans 16:21) seems to refer to relatives of Paul in the sense of being fellow Jews (cf. Romans 9:13; Philippians 1:7; Philippians 4:14). "Apostles" (Romans 16:7) here... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 16:1-27

Greetings and Warnings1-16. 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 gospel, and of the honourable place taken by them in the Christian Church. Observe also the difference of nationality indicated by the names. St. Paul, a Hebrew, sends salutation to Greeks, Romans, and perhaps Asiatics, many of them probably slaves—marking the universality of the gospel: cp. Galatians... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 16:7

(7) Junia.—Or, possibly, “Junias” (for Junianus), a man’s name.My kinsmen.—From the number of persons (six in all, and those not only in Rome but also in Greece and Macedonia) to whom the title is given in this chapter, it would seem as if the word “kinsmen” was to be taken in a wider sense than that which it usually bears. It probably means members of the same nation—Jew like myself.Fellow-prisoners.—It is not at all known to what this refers. The only imprisonment of St. Paul recorded in the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Romans 16:1-27

Fellow-workers in Christ Romans 16:3-5 'Greet Priscilla.' 'Greet Mary.' 'Greet Amplias.' Salute Apelles.' 'Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas.' And so on, and so on. And let us mark that these delicate courtesies come at the end of this tremendous Epistle, an Epistle which for sheer power of reasoning was regarded by Coleridge as unsurpassed in literature. I. First of all, I notice that Priscilla and Aquila have a common rootage with Paul. 'My fellow-workers in Christ Jesus.' The great... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Romans 16:1-27

Chapter 32A COMMENDATION; GREETINGS; A WARNING; A DOXOLOGYRomans 16:1-27ONCE more, with a reverent license of thought, we may imagine ourselves to be watching in detail the scene in the house of Gaius. Hour upon hour has passed over Paul and his scribe as the wonderful Message has developed itself, at once and everywhere the word of man and the Word of God. They began at morning, and the themes of sin, and righteousness, and glory, of the present and the future of Israel, of the duties of the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Romans 16:1-27

CHAPTER 16 1. Greetings to Individuals. (Romans 16:1-16 .) 2. Warning and Comfort. (Romans 16:17-20 .) 3. The Final Salutations. (Romans 16:21-24 .) 4. The Conclusion. (Romans 16:25-27 .) Romans 16:1-16 Phoebe (which means “radiant”) is first mentioned. She was probably a person of great influence and wealth, for she had been a succorer of many, including the Apostle. She is heartily commended to the assembly in Rome, to be received in the Lord, worthily of the Saints. Then that... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 16:7

16:7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in {d} Christ before me.(d) Ingrafted by faith. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 16:1-27

Communications, Greetings and Closing This chapter has a character peculiar to itself; and being a fifth subdivision of the last division (chapters 12 to 16) of the book, we may expect in some sense a resume of the practical results of the truth in the lives of saints. Indeed it is manifestly a sort of Deuteronomy - God with man, as it were, rehearsing the ways of the wilderness. Thus, can we not discern in it a little picture of the judgement seat of Christ - ending with its ascription of... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Romans 16:1-27

PRACTICAL APPLICATION In chapter 6 Paul revealed the secret of experimental sanctification as the yielding of one’s self unto God, in which case sin would not have dominion over one In chapter 8 he showed the divine process of sanctification as the work of the Holy Spirit in the believer. Having finished the doctrinal part of his epistle, he returns to what he then said (chap. 6), and exhorts us to yield because of the “mercies of God” of which he had been speaking throughout (Romans 12:1-2... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Romans 16:7

Prisoners of War "Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ." Philemon 1:1 . "There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus." Philemon 1:23 . "Aristarchus my fellow-prisoner saluteth you." Colossians 4:10 . "Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners." Romans 16:7 . WE have only one word where Paul had two. In all these cases we say "prisoner"; Paul did not use the same word in all cases. Paul used two perfectly distinct words; he had therefore two... read more