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Epaphras (Epaphrās). The Colossian preacher who apparently started the work in Colossae, Hierapolis, and Laodicea, and who had come to Rome to enlist Paul’s help in the fight against incipient Gnosticism in the Lycus Valley.
My fellow-prisoner (ho sunaichmalōtos mou). See note on Rom 16:7 for this word, also in Col 4:10. Used metaphorically like the verb aichmalōtizō in 2Co 10:5, though some hold that Epaphras became a prisoner with Paul in Rome.