Romans - 16:9



9 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.

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Explanation and meaning of Romans 16:9.

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Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
Salute Urbanus our fellow-worker in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
Salute Urbanus, our helper in Christ Jesus, and Stachys, my beloved.
Salute Urbanus, our fellow-workman in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.
salute Arbanus, our fellow-workman in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved;
to Urban, our fellow labourer in Christ, and to my dear Stachys.
Give my love to Urbanus, a worker in Christ with us, and to my dear Stachys.
Greet Urbanus, our helper in Christ Jesus, and Stachys, my beloved.
to Urban, our fellow worker in the cause of Christ, and to my dear friend Stachys;
Salutate Urbanum, adjutorem nostrum in Christo et Stachyn dilectum meum.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Urbane, our helper - Who this Urbanus was we know not; what is here stated is, that he had been a fellow laborer with the apostles.
Stachys, my beloved - One of my particular friends.

Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ,.... This also was a Roman name, and which many of the popes of Rome have since taken to themselves; he is said to be one of the seventy disciples, and to be a bishop in Macedonia; See Gill on Luke 10:1; which is not very probable: others have conjectured him to be one of the pastors of the church of Rome, which is more likely; and if he was, but few of his successors have deserved the character given of him, an "helper in Christ"; in spreading the Gospel, and enlarging the kingdom and interest of Christ:
and Stachys my beloved; this is a Greek name, he is said to be one of the seventy disciples, and bishop of Byzantium; See Gill on Luke 10:1. According to the Roman martyrology, he was ordained bishop of the Byzantine church, by Andrew the apostle, but this is not to be depended on; he was, however, because of his faith in Christ, and love to him, or on such like spiritual accounts, very dear to the apostle.

Urbane--rather, "Urbanus." It is a man's name.
our helper--"fellow labourer"
in Christ.

Our fellowlabourer - Mine and Timothy's, Romans 16:21.

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