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Gill's Exposition
Salute Apelles approved in Christ,.... Origen was in doubt whether this was not the same person with Apollos the Alexandrian Jew, whom Aquila and Priscilla met with at Ephesus; but had he been…
Adam Clarke
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.
Such remembrances as these are usual in letters between friends; and yet Paul, by the savouriness of his expressions, sanctifies these common compliments.
I. Here is the recommendation of a friend, by…
Cambridge Bible
Urban Strictly, Urbânus. The letter - ein the E. V. form is not to be pronounced: it is like the final - eof Constantine, and has nothing to do with feminineterminations. It would have been better to…