| Geneva Study Bible Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. People's New Testament 4:19 Salute Prisca and Aquila. These tried friends, whom he first met in Corinth, afterwards in Ephesus, who returned also to Rome, were now again in Ephesus. The household of Onesiphorus. See 2Ti 1:16. Some have thought that this form implies that Onesiphorus was dead, but that does not follow necessarily. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 19. Prisca and Aquila-(Ac 18:2, 3; Ro 16:3, 4; 1Co 16:19, written from Ephesus, where therefore Aquila and Priscilla must then have been). household of Onesiphorus-If he were dead at the time, the "household" would not have been called "the household of Onesiphorus." He was probably absent (see on [2512]2Ti 1:16). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 4:19-22 We need no more to make us happy, than to have the Lord Jesus Christ with our spirits; for in him all spiritual blessings are summed up. It is the best prayer we can offer for our friends, that the Lord Jesus Christ may be with their spirits, to sanctify and save them, and at last to receive them to himself. Many who believed as Paul, are now before the throne, giving glory to their Lord: may we be followers of them. |