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Final Greetings

7 aTychicus, a beloved brother, faithful minister, and fellow servant in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me.  
8 aI am sending him to you for this very purpose, that1 he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,  
9 with aOnesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all things which are happening here.  
10 aAristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, with bMark the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions: if he comes to you, welcome him),  
11 and Jesus who is called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for the kingdom of God who are of the circumcision; they have proved to be a comfort to me.
12 aEpaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always blaboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand cperfect and complete in all the will of God.  
13 For I bear him witness that he has a great1 zeal for you, and those who are in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Colossians 4:9

With Onesimus - who is one of you - Onesimus was a native of some part of Phrygia, if not of Colosse itself; and being lately converted to the Christian faith by the instrumentality of the apostle, he would be able, on this account, to give them satisfactory information concerning the apostle' s state, which would be doubly acceptable to them as he was their countryman. See the Epistle to Philemon.

All things which are done here - FG, the Vulgate, Itala, Jerome, and Bede, add here , what is done, which we have supplied in Italics in our translation. These brethren could give an account of the transactions at Rome, relative to the apostle and Christianity, which it might not be prudent for him to commit to writing. See on Colossians 4:7 (note). The reign of Nero was not only cruel, but suspicious, jealous, and dangerous.


 
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