Verse 12
‘Salute Persis the beloved, who laboured much in the Lord.’
The name Persis means ‘Persian woman’ and was found in Roman inscriptions. Note that it is ‘the beloved’ not ‘my beloved’. Paul may well have been wary of calling a woman ‘my beloved’. The contrast with Romans 16:12 a suggests that in some way she was outstanding. She ‘laboured much’ and was ‘beloved’.
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