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Rom 16:16. Ἀσπάσασθε ἀλλήλους, salute ye one another) supply: in my name.-ἐν φιλήματι ἁγίῳ, with a holy kiss) This was the flower of faith and love. The kiss of love, 1Pe 5:14. This was the practice after prayers. Paul mentions the holy kiss at the conclusion of the first epistle to the Thessalonians, of both his epistles to the Corinthians, and of this to the Romans. Paul wrote these epistles at the earliest period. Afterwards purity of love was in some cases extinct or abuses arose, for in writing to the Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians, when he was in prison, he gave no charge concerning this kiss. The difference has regard to the time, not to the place, for the Philippians were in Macedonia, as well as the Thessalonians. I do not say however that the difference of time was altogether the only reason, why the holy kiss was commanded or not commanded. In the second Epistle to the Thessalonians there was no need to give directions about it so soon after the first had been received. The condition of the Galatians at that time rendered such directions unsuitable.-αἱ ἐκκλησίαι[169]) the churches) with whom I have been, ch. Rom 15:26. He had made known to them, that he was writing to Rome.
[169] The Germ. Ver. has restored the reading of πᾶσαι, although it was declared on the margin of both Ed. as not quite so certain.-E. B.
DGfg omit ἀσπαζ. ὑμ. αἱ ἐκκλ. Πᾶσαι τ. Χριστοῦ, but add these words at the end of ver. 21. ABC Vulg. have all the words, including πᾶσαι, which Rec. Text omits without any good authority.-ED.