Romans 16:15 BSB — MannaFest

Romans 16:15

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas and all the saints with them.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints that are with them.

KJV

Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them.

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Commentary

3 voices

Origen of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS (253)

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympias, and all the saints who are with them. It may be that Philologus and Julia were spouses; the rest their household members, to whom a simple greeting is directed.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Salute Philologus, and Julia,.... The first of these is a Greek name, and the name of a man, and signifies a lover of learning. This name Atteius assumed to himself, which Eratosthenes had done before him, because of his great learning (y); this man is reckoned among the seventy disciples, and is said to be bishop of Sinope: See Gill on Luk 10:

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Among all those to whom Paul sends greeting here is not a word of Peter, which gives occasion to suspect that he was not bishop of Rome, as the Papists say he was; for, if he was, we cannot but suppose him resident, or at least how could Paul write so long an epistle to the Christians there, and take no notice of him?

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Salute Philologus, etc. - Of these several persons, though much has been conjectured, nothing certain is known. Even the names of some are so ambiguous that we know not whether they were men or women. They were persons well known to St. Paul, and undoubtedly were such as had gone from different places where the apostle had preached to sojourn or settle at Rome.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἀσπάσασθε	aspasasthe	do greet	G782 →
Φιλόλογον	Philologon	Philologus	G5378 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
Ἰουλίαν,	Ioulian	Julia,	G2456 →
Νηρέα	Nērea	Nereus	G3517 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
ἀδελφὴν	adelphēn	sister	G79 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of him	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
Ὀλυμπᾶν	Olumpan	Olympas	G3652 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
σὺν	sun	with	G4862 →
αὐτοῖς	autois	them	G846 →
πάντας	pantas	all	G3956 →
ἁγίους.¶	hagious	saints.	G40 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ephesians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:
leads to
- Colossians 1:2
  To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Corinthians 1:1
  Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:
- 1 Corinthians 1:1–2
  Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
Through
1 Peter 1:2
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
leads to
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13
  But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by…
- Ephesians 1:4–5
  For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
- Hebrews 12:24
  to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
- 1 Peter 1:22
  Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
- Romans 11:2

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01Commentary

The record, by era

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Romans

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Romans