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Romans 16:1-23

As we approach the end of this letter (epistle) to the holy and Godly-loved people in Rome, Paul includes commendations and greetings.

Romans 16:1 and 2:

16:1But I commend to you Phebe your sister being also a minister of the church, the (church) in Cenchrea, .2in order that you may accept her towards-yourselves in (the) Lord worthily of the holy-people and you may stand-beside her in what-ever matter she may have need of you, for she also was caused-to-become a patroness both of many other-people and of me myself.

Paul writes: I commend Phebe to you (I cause her to stand in conjunction together with you, in the sense of favorably introducing her to you)...

...for the purpose and result that...

...in truth, emphatically she also came to pass to be (in Greek there is a definite word for “she” plus the verb meaning “she was caused to become” giving emphasis – she became)...

Evidently Phebe was sent by Paul to deliver this letter.

In verse 1, the word "church" comes from the Greek word ekklesia, which comes from two words meaning "out from" and "called" - and so it means "called out from." A church is an assembly of people called out from other people for any reason. It does not refer to a particular type of building or a house, even though the church or assembly may meet in a particular type of building or in a house. In this context the "church" consists of all the holy-people in Cenchrea (those who had received the gift of holy spirit - the sanctified people, Christians, saints, children of the only true God).

 [Reference: Acts 18:18, 27:23; I Corinthians 3:5; Ephesians 4:1; Philippians 1:1, 2:29; Colossians 1:10; I Thessalonians 2:12; I Timothy 3:8 and 12, 4:6; II Timothy 4:17; III John 1:6.]

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