Teks -- Romans 16:12 (NET)

16:12 Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, laborers in the Lord. Greet my dear friend Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Rom 16:12 - Tryphaena and Tryphosa

Tryphaena and Tryphosa ( Truphainan kai Truphōsan ).

Probably sisters and possibly twins. Both names come from the same root, the verb truphaō , to live luxuriously (Jam 5:5). Denney suggests "Dainty and Disdain."

Robertson: Rom 16:12 - Persis

Persis ( Persida ).

A freedwoman was so named. She is not Paul’ s "beloved,"but the "beloved"of the whole church.

Vincent: Rom 16:12 - Tryphaena and Tryphosa

Tryphaena and Tryphosa

From τρυφάω to live luxuriously . See on riot , 2Pe 2:13. Perhaps sisters. Farrar says they are slave-names.

Wesley: Rom 16:12 - Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa

Probably they were two sisters.

JFB: Rom 16:12 - Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord

Two active women.

JFB: Rom 16:12 - Salute the beloved Persis

Another woman.

JFB: Rom 16:12 - which laboured much in the Lord

Referring probably, not to official services, such as would fall to the deaconesses, but to such higher Christian labors--yet within the sphere competent to woman--as Priscilla bestowed on Apollos and others (Act 18:18).

Clarke: Rom 16:12 - Tryphena and Tryphosa

Tryphena and Tryphosa - Two holy women, who it seems were assistants to the apostle in his work, probably by exhorting, visiting the sick, etc. Persis was another woman, who it seems excelled the preceding; for, of her it is said, she labored much in the Lord. We learn from this, that Christian women, as well as men, labored in the ministry of the word. In those times of simplicity all persons, whether men or women, who had received the knowledge of the truth, believed it to be their duty to propagate it to the uttermost of their power. Many have spent much useless labor in endeavoring to prove that these women did not preach. That there were some prophetesses, as well as prophets in the Christian Church, we learn; and that a woman might pray or prophesy, provided she had her head covered, we know; and that whoever prophesied spoke unto others to edification, exhortation, and comfort, St. Paul declares, 1Co 14:3. And that no preacher can do more, every person must acknowledge; because to edify, exhort, and comfort, are the prime ends of the Gospel ministry. If women thus prophesied, then women preached. There is, however, much more than this implied in the Christian ministry, of which men only, and men called of God, are capable.

TSK: Rom 16:12 - labour

labour : Mat 9:38; 1Co 15:10,1Co 15:58, 1Co 16:16; Col 1:29, Col 4:12; 1Th 1:3, 1Th 5:12, 1Th 5:13; 1Ti 4:10, 1Ti 5:17, 1Ti 5:18; Heb 6:10,Heb 6:11

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Rom 16:12 - laboured in the Lord // Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord // the beloved Persis

He salutes several women as well as men: you read before of Priscilla, Rom 16:3 ; of Mary, Rom 16:6 ; and now he adds three more in this verse. He saith of the two first, that they

laboured in the Lord i.e. in the service of Christ and his church, according to their place and power. See the notes on Rom 16:6 .

Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord he gives this woman a higher commendation, calling her

the beloved Persis see Rom 16:8 . He saith of the other two, that they laboured; but of this, that she hath laboured much in the Lord, noting some special favour or service for which she is here commended.

Gill: Rom 16:12 - Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord // salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord,.... These two were women, and are said to be noble women of Iconium, whom the apostle converted there, and afterwards went to Rome the names are Greek ^t, though they might be Jewish women, since Tryphon is the name of a man among the Jews. Trypho, the famous Jew, with whom Justin Martyr had his dialogue, is well known, and perhaps is the same with R. Tarphon, or Tryphon, so often mentioned in the Misnic and Talmudic writings: however, as these were women, their labour cannot be understood of their labouring in the word of the Lord, or in the public ministry of it, since this was forbid by the apostle, and therefore would never commend them on account of it; but of their great usefulness and indefatigableness, in serving the interest of their dear Lord with their purses; in relieving the poor of the church, in entertaining and supplying the ministers of the Gospel, as well as by their private instructions, exhortations, and giving an account of their own experience, whereby they might greatly encourage, edify, and strengthen young converts, and other Christians, as Priscilla with her husband did; and were unwearied in doing everything that they were capable of, in promoting the Gospel and kingdom of Christ:

salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord; who being a woman also, and perhaps of Persic original, and might have her name from her country; her labour must be understood of the same kind with the former, only with this addition, that she abounded and exceeded in it; she is said by the Syriac scholiast to be the wife of Rufus, mentioned in Rom 16:13.