| Geneva Study Bible Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you. People's New Testament 4:21 Salute every saint. Where he knew so many he could not single out individuals for special greetings, but salutes all. The brethren who are with me. Such brethren as Timothy and other fellow-laborers, who were now in Rome. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 21. Salute every saint-individually. greet-salute you. The brethren which are with me-Perhaps Jewish believers are meant (Ac 28:21). I think Php 2:20 precludes our thinking of "closer friends," "colleagues in the ministry" [Alford]; he had only one close friend with him, namely, Timothy. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 4:20-23 The apostle ends with praises to God. We should look upon God, under all our weakness and fears, not as an enemy, but as a Father, disposed to pity us and help us. We must give glory to God as a Father. God's grace and favour, which reconciled souls enjoy, with the whole of the graces in us, which flow from it, are all purchased for us by Christ's merit, and applied by his pleading for us; and therefore are justly called the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. |