Personal Greetings
Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. Rom 16:9
Salute Urbane, our... Urbane means “polite” or “of the city”.
And Stachys my... Stachys is said by historians (not the Bible), to have been bishop of Byzantium. Tradition also, has him to be one of the 70 disciples. This is an uncommon Greek name meaning “ear of corn.” He was obviously close to Paul, but the details are not known for sure.
Urbanus
another spelling was called our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys
was addressed as my dear friend (lit., “the one loved by me”; cf.
Epenetus, Rom. 16:5).
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