“Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them.”
Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas and the other brothers and sisters with them. — Long list of names: Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, with adelphoi met' autōn (brothers with them). A household gathering of Christians or a sub-assembly.
Church Fathers on Romans 16:14
“Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them.” Here do not be looking to how he starts them without any encomium, but how he did not reckon them, though far inferior, as it seems, to all, unworthy of being addressed by him. Or rather even this is no slight praise that he even calls them brethren, as also those that are after them he calls saints. For he says,
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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