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Rom 16:7. Συγγενεῖς, kinsmen) So Rom 16:11; Rom 16:21. They were Jews, ch. Rom 9:3.-ἀποστόλοις, among the apostles) They had seen the Lord, 1Co 15:6; hence they are called apostles, using the word in a wider meaning, although some of them perhaps after the ascension of the Lord turned to the faith by means of the first sermons of Peter. Others might be veterans, and I acknowledge as such the brethren, who numbered more than five hundred. The passage quoted from 1 Cor. implies, that there was a multitude of those, who had seen Christ and were from that fact capable of giving the apostolic testimony.-πρὸ ἐμοῦ, before me) Age makes men venerable, especially in Christ. Among the men of old, it was a mark of veneration to have the precedence by four years.[167]-γεγόνασιν ἐν Χριστ, ῳ,) they began to be in Christ.
[167] A quotation from Juvenal Sat. xiii. 58-
“Tam venerabile erat præcedere quatuor annis.”-ED.