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Herodion
Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament
or (Ἡρωδίων, Westcott-Hort’s Greek Testament Ἡρῳδίων Romans 16:11, a Greek name, suggesting connexion with the family of the Herods).-Herodion is saluted by St. Paul and is described as ‘my kinsman’ (τὸν συγγενῆ μου). Other ‘kinsmen’ saluted in Romans 16 are Andronicus and Junias (or Junia) (Romans 16:7), while three ‘kinsmen’ send salutations in Romans 16:21. That St. Paul means that these poisons were relations of his is unlikely. It is this interpretation which has given rise to one of the difficulties felt in deciding the destination of the passage Romans 16:3-20. Almost certainly we should understand ‘fellow-Jews’ or ‘fellow-members of my tribe’ (see Romans 9:5). Lightfoot connects Herodion with ‘the household of Aristobulus’ saluted in the preceding verse. He considers that Aristobulus was a member of the Herodian family, and that his ‘household’ would naturally include many Orientals and Jews, and therefore probably some Christians (Philippians4 1878, p. 175). Of the latter, Herodion may have been one. Others have conjectured that Herodion belonged to ‘the household of Narcissus’ saluted in the verse which follows.
T. B. Allworthy.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Herodion'. Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdn/h/herodion.html. 1906-1918.
