1 Corinthians 16:19
The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house, with whom I also lodge.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Salutant vos ecclesiæ Asiæ. Salutant vos in Domino multum, Aquila et Priscilla cum domestica sua ecclesia : apud quos et hospitor.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- Ἀσπάζονται ὑμᾶς αἱ ἐκκλησίαι τῆς Ἀσίας. ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς ἐν κυρίῳ πολλὰ Ἀκύλας καὶ Πρίσκα σὺν τῇ κατʼ οἶκον αὐτῶν ἐκκλησίᾳ.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch, Homily I
20. But that this also introduces arguments for the resurrection, hear the same Paul again, saying, “If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what shall it profit me if the dead are not raised.” And further, “If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men the most miserable.” We suffer, he tells us, innumerable evils during the present life; if then there is no other life to be hoped for, what can be more wretched than our condition? Hence it is evident that our affairs are not bounded within the limits of this present state; and this becomes manifest from our trials. …
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Homily XXX on Rom. xv. 25-27
For she had been so estimable as even to make their house a Church, both by making all in it believers, and because they opened it to all strangers. For he was not in the habit of calling any houses Churches, save where there was much piety, and much fear of God deeply rooted in them. And on this ground he said to the Corinthians also, “Salute Aquila and Priscilla, with the Church that is in their house.” ( 1 Cor. xvi. 19 .) And when writing about Onesimus, “Paul unto Philemon, and to the beloved Apphia, and to the Church that is in their house.” ( Philem. 1, 2 .) For it is possible for a man even in the married state to be worthy of being looked up to, and noble. …
St John Chrysostom Homilies on First Corinthians, Homily XLIV
Ver. 19 . “All the Churches of Asia salute you.” He is continually making the members combine and cleave together in one by means of the salutation. “Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord;”, for with them he was lodging, being a tent-maker, “with the Church which is in their house.” This thing too is no small excellency, that they had made their very house a Church.