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To: Jemian

“Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them. Greet also the church that meets at their house.”—Romans 16:3-5

Your post made me think of the above couple. I scanned Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers on this verse and found it interesting:

“(3) Priscilla.—The correct reading here is Prisca, of which form Priscilla is the diminutive. It is rather remarkable that the wife should be mentioned first. Perhaps it may be inferred that she was the more active and conspicuous of the two.”


10 posted on 11/18/2018 8:52:09 PM PST by avenir ("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Paul to Titus)
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To: avenir

Acts 18:2
And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.

Acts 18:26
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.


11 posted on 11/18/2018 9:20:10 PM PST by boatbums (Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy he saved us.)
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