Final Greetings
2Tim 4:19-22 Greet Priscilla and Aquila and the household of Onesiphorus. Erastus stayed in Corinth, and I left Trophimus sick in Miletus. Do your best to get here before winter. Eubulus greets you, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia and all the brothers. The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
Priscilla and Aquila are mentioned seven times. Four times in Acts and three times in the epistles. They, like Paul, traveled a bit doing ministry. But one epistle its mentioned they had house in which the church would meet. Paul mentioned Onesiphorus earlier in this letter, saying, "May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains. On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me. May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! You know very well in how many ways he helped me in Ephesus" 2Tim 1:16-18
Erastus was also mentioned a few times in the New Testament as a fellow worker. And Trophimus as well. He apparently accompanied Paul to Jerusalem just before the riot in which Paul was arrested. In fact the unbelieving Jews used Trophimus in Acts 21:29 as an excuse to try and kill Paul.
"The Lord be with your spirit" is actually a prayer, though not a phrase commonly used today. It does remind us of another prayer. "May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" 1Th 5:23 I would conjecture that the one's spirit is seat of the conscience and intuition. It is that which is behind one's attitude.
2Tim 4:19-22 Greet Priscilla and Aquila and the household of Onesiphorus. Erastus stayed in Corinth, and I left Trophimus sick in Miletus. Do your best to get here before winter. Eubulus greets you, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia and all the brothers. The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.
Priscilla and Aquila are mentioned seven times. Four times in Acts and three times in the epistles. They, like Paul, traveled a bit doing ministry. But one epistle its mentioned they had house in which the church would meet. Paul mentioned Onesiphorus earlier in this letter, saying, "May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains. On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me. May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! You know very well in how many ways he helped me in Ephesus" 2Tim 1:16-18
Erastus was also mentioned a few times in the New Testament as a fellow worker. And Trophimus as well. He apparently accompanied Paul to Jerusalem just before the riot in which Paul was arrested. In fact the unbelieving Jews used Trophimus in Acts 21:29 as an excuse to try and kill Paul.
"The Lord be with your spirit" is actually a prayer, though not a phrase commonly used today. It does remind us of another prayer. "May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" 1Th 5:23 I would conjecture that the one's spirit is seat of the conscience and intuition. It is that which is behind one's attitude.
