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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Synzygus
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
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SYNZYGUS (lit. ‘yoke-fellow’). This is taken by some as a proper name in Philippians 4:3 (‘Synzygus truly so called’), but it is nowhere else found as such. It is more probably a way of describing the chief minister of the church at Philippi. Lightfoot ( Com ., in loc .) suggests Epaphroditus; Ramsay ( St. Paul , p. 358), Luke; others, Barnabas or Silas or Timothy. An old tradition of the 2nd cent. (Lightfoot, ib. ) makes the ‘ yoke-fellow ’ to be the Apostle’s wife; Renan supposes that Lydia is meant, and that she had become his wife; but see 1 Corinthians 7:8 .
A. J. Maclean.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Synzygus'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/s/synzygus.html. 1909.
Hastings, James. Entry for 'Synzygus'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/s/synzygus.html. 1909.
