Matthew Poole Commentary - Romans 16:11 - 16:11

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Romans 16:11 - 16:11


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Salute Herodion my kinsman: see Rom_16:7.



Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus: this Narcissus is reported by Suetonius to have been in great favour with Claudius the emperor, and to have abounded in wealth, so that he was worth ten millions. He was a wicked man himself, yet it seems he had divers good Christians in his family. So we read that there were saints in Nero’s house or court, Phi_4:22. To what a degree of wickedness are they arrived, who will not suffer a religious person to dwell in their houses! This shows, that good Christians may serve wicked masters with a good conscience.



Which are in the Lord; this may be added, because that all in Narcissus’s family were not Christians, or members of the church of Christ.