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Romans 16:4
who have for my life laid down their own necks; unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
who have for my life laid down their own necks; unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
Verse Romans 16:4. _WHO HAVE FOR MY LIFE LAID DOWN THEIR OWN NECKS_] What transaction this refers to we know not; but it appears that these persons had, on some occasion, hazarded their own lives to...
WHO HAVE FOR MY LIFE - In order to save my life. LAID DOWN THEIR OWN NECKS - To “lay down the neck” is to lay the head on a block to be cut off with the axe; or to bow down the head as when the neck w...
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 Prisca and to Aquila, my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their own necks to save my life. It is not only I who have cause to be thankful to them, but all the churches o...
FOR App-104. LIFE. App-110 and App-170. LAID... NECKS. risked their own lives.. similar expression occurs in. roll from Herculaneum c. 160 B.C. NECKS. neck. GIVE THANKS. See Acts 27:35. The occasi...
_who have for my life_, &c. Lit., and better, WHO DID FOR MY LIFE LAY DOWN THEIR OWN NECK, (not NECKS). An entirely unknown occasion, on which Aquila and his wife had risked their lives for St Paul's....
ΟἽΤΙΝΕΣ. ‘For they,’ ‘seeing that they,’ a ground for this prominent greeting. ὙΠῈΡ ΤΗ͂Σ Ψ. Κ.Τ.Λ. We have no further information about this. It may have been either at Corinth or at Ephesus. ὙΠΈΘΗΚ...
Greetings to Christians at Rome. 3–16. Greetings; see Lightfoot, _Phil._ pp. 171 ff. S. H. _ad loc_[317] [317] _ad loc._ ad locum...
ΟΪΤΙΝΕΣ _пот. pl. от_ ΔΣΤΙΣ (G3748) качественное _pron._, означающее: "такие люди, как" "подобные" (Godet; BG, 69). ΤΡΆΧΗΛΟΣ (G5137) шея. ΎΠΈΘΗΚΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΎΠΟΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G5294) помещать под ...
_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...
Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. WHO HAVE FOR MY LIFE LAID DOWN - `Who did for my life lay down' THEIR...
__ 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...
16:4 staked (g-5) Or 'risked,' 'hazarded.'...
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...
LAID DOWN, etc.] Perhaps they risked their lives at Ephesus: cp. Acts 19....
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...
LAID DOWN THEIR OWN NECKS. — Whether this expression is to be taken literally or figuratively we do not know, neither can we do more than guess at the event to which it refers. It may have something t...
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...
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...
It is not exactly known to what the apostle here refers. Origen thinks that they delivered the apostle from the snares of the Jews. Others, that they exposed themselves from him in the sedition raised...
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...
VV. 3-5A. “ _Salute Prisca and Aquilas, my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus, who have for my life laid down their own necks unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles an...
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...
I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: (2) That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she h...
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...
4._To whom not only I, etc. _As Prisca and Aquila had not spared their life for preserving the life of Paul, he testifies that he himself was individually thankful to them: he however adds, that thank...
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...
WHO FOR MY LIFE LAID DOWN THEIR NECKS,.... That is, exposed themselves to great danger to save the apostle's life: the allusion is to the manner of executions by beheading, and to one person's laying...
Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. Ver. 4. _Who have for my life_] A rare example. Fast friends are in this a...
_Greet_ Or, _salute_, as ασπασασθε is generally rendered; _Priscilla and Aquila_ That is, declare to them my Christian love, and desires of their welfare. The apostle first became acquainted with this...
LAID DOWN THEIR OWN NECKS; exposed their lives to great danger to save mine. Those who, from love to Christ, assist faithful ministers in their work, confer great benefits not only on them, but on the...
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...
Priscilla and Aquila Acts 18:24-28 Taught Apollos Kicked out of Rome Came to Corinth NOTE: The Roman letter is written from Corinth 4 Church that is in their house NOTE: Many house churches in R...
WHO FOR MY LIFE LAID DOWN THEIR OWN NECKS; UNTO WHOM NOT ONLY. GIVE THANKS, BUT ALSO ALL THE CHURCHES OF THE GENTILES: 'laid down their own necks' -Paul had encountered danger in both Corinth and Eph...
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...
WHO HAVE FOR MY LIFE LAID DOWN THEIR OWN NECKS; i.e. they hazarded their own lives to save mine. The Scripture speaks of this as the duty of Christians, 1 JOHN 3:16. He refers (it may be) to that upro...
who for my life laid down their own necks [As Paul's chief danger lay in Ephesus (1 Corinthians 15:32), it was evidently there that Aquila and Priscilla risked their lives for him, though no specific...
Romans 16:4 who G3748 risked G5294 (G5656) own G1438 necks G5137 for G5228 my G3450 life G5590 whom...
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...
‘Salute Prisca and Aquila my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus, who for my life laid down their own necks, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles, and the church which...
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...
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 16:4. WHO FOR (‘in behalf of,' not, ‘instead of') MY LIFE LAID DOWN, etc. Lit., ‘laid under,' used of submitting to execution. That they underwent peril of their life for the sake of Paul is cl...
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...
LAID DOWN THEIR OWN NECKS (τον εαυτων τραχελον υπεθηκαν). First aorist active of υποτιθημ, old verb to place under (the axe of the executioner), only here in N.T. in this sense, though in 1 Timothy...
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...
WHO RISKED THEIR LIVES FOR ME. We know nothing at all about this. But much of Paul's experiences are not told to us (see 2 Corinthians 11:23-27). NOT ONLY I. The incident where they had risked their l...
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...
_Greet Priscilla and Aquila._ PRISCILLA AND AQUILA, PAUL’S HELPERS I. Their service. 1. Toil. 2. Sacrifice. II. Their motives of action. 1. Faith. 2. Love. 3. Hope in Christ. III. Their rewar...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 16:4 Perhaps Prisca and Aquila RISKED their lives when Paul was in danger in Ephesus (Acts 19:23;...
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 16:3.—Thirty persons saluted. Explained partly by the character of the city to which Paul wrote, and partly by the character of the apostle who had preached the gospel extensi...
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 16:1; 1 Corinthians 7:17; 1 John 3:16; 1 Thessalonians 2:14;...
Who [ο ι τ ι ν ε ς]. The double relative, with an explanatory force : seeing that they. Laid down their own necks [τ ο ν ε α υ τ ω ν τ ρ α χ η λ ο ν υ π ε θ η κ α ν]. Laid down is, literally, placed...
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...
Who have for my life, as it were, laid down their own necks — That is, exposed themselves to the utmost danger. But likewise all the churches of the gentiles — Even that at Rome, for preserving so val...