I commend unto you Phebe our sister, who is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
I think there are many, even some apparently good commentators, who hurry over this part of the epistle because they think it is superfluous and of little importance. They probably think much the same about the genealogies in the Gospels. Because it is a catalog of names, they think they can get nothing good out of it. People who mine gold are careful even about the smallest fragments, but these commentators ignore even huge bars of gold! Homilies on Romans
