And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
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Gill's Exposition
And I entreat thee also, true yoke fellow,.... Not his wife, as some think (d), for he had none, as appears from Co1 7:7, at the writing of which epistle he was at Ephesus, where he stayed some little…
Barnes' Notes
And I entreat thee also, true yoke-fellow - It is not known to whom the apostle refers here. No name is mentioned, and conjecture is useless. All that is known is, that it was someone whom Paul…
Adam Clarke
Help those women which labored with me - Both in the Grecian and Asiatic countries women were kept much secluded, and is was not likely that even the apostles had much opportunity of conversing with…
The apostle begins the chapter with exhortations to divers Christian duties.
I. To stedfastness in our Christian profession, Phi 4:1. It is inferred from the close of the foregoing chapter: Therefore…
Cambridge Bible
And I entreat Better, Yea, I request, or beg (as in our polite use of that word).
also Paul was doing what he could to "help" his two converts; his friend at Philippi must "help" too.
true yokefellow…
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