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TERTIUS.—St. Paul’s amanuensis who wrote Romans and added a personal salutation (Rom_16:22). It was the Apostle’s custom to employ a scribe (no doubt dictating shorthand notes, a common practice), but to add a short autograph himself. The autographs probably are: Rom_16:25-27, 1Co_16:21-24 (expressly), 2Co_13:13 f., Gal_6:11-18 (expressly), Eph_6:23 f., Php_4:21-23, Col_4:18 (expressly), 1Th_5:25-28, 2Th_3:17 f., (expressly). In the Pastoral Epistles and Philemon, which are personal letters, the presence of autograph passages is more uncertain.
A. J. Maclean.