Romans 16:14-15 - Exposition

Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes (not, surely, as Origen supposed, the author of 'The Shepherd of Hermes,' which is said in 'Canon Mumtori' to have been written by a brother of Pius I., and cannot well have been of earlier date than the second century), Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren that are with them. Salute Philologus, and Julia , Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them . The "brethren" in Romans 16:14 , and the "saints" in Romans 16:15 , saluted in connection with the groups of persons named, may possibly mean the congregations that assembled under the leadership, or perhaps at the houses, of those persons. If so, there would appear to have been three congregations in Rome known of by St. Paul; for see Romans 16:5 , which, indeed, seems in itself to imply that the Church that was in the house of Priscilla and Aquila was not the only one.