2. UapaxaXu, I \beseech], exhort) He uses this word twice, as if exhorting each of them apart face to face, and doing it with the utmost impartiality [implied by repeating the like word to each separately].
3. Na/, yea) an agreeable [conciliatory, affectionate] particle, Philem., ver. 20; Heb. NJ. It is put, as it were, into the mouth of the man who is being besought, so that, upon merely pronouncing it, he may give his assent. — 0u£uyg yvjjtfif, true [genuine] yokefellow, or yokefellow without disguise) 6 nut % ffvfyyog, persons joined together, properly in marriage, and then in other things ; so, however, as that the word is applied to two, and denotes some degree of parity ; yvfaiog also is of the common gender. Some say, that Paul had at one time a wife, but we are convinced, on good grounds, that he is here addressing a man. He had many ffuvspyoug, fellow-workers ; not many <ru£uyou£, yoke fellows, first Barnabas, afterwards Silas ; and he seems to address the latter in this passage.; for Silas had been his yokefellow among the Philippians themselves, Acts [xv. 40] xvi. 19. \_0r, as I am more inclined to think, Epaphroditus. — V. g.] He was also [like Paul] at all events a minister, whom Paul here en treats. — ffvXJMf&fSavov aura/g, assist those) that thou mayest main tain harmony among them, by removing impediments. — a'/nvsg, who) It is proper to afford help to a person who once stood well, even when he is wavering. — tfu^XTjo-ai/ //-o/, laboured (wrestled) together with me) They seem to have been involved in that danger, which is described at Acts xvi. 19. — f^sra, with) This word depends on <ruMj0X»j<rav, they have laboured together. — KX^svrog, Clement) They had imitated the great men, among whom Clement was of distinguished excellence. The women were thus highly favoured and honoured. — ra foof&ara,, the names) though not here mentioned. The allusion is to the victorious