I urge Euodias, and urge Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
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Gaius Marius Victorinus
AD 400
He asks that these women should seek a common understanding in the Lord. Out of their belief in Christ, they should think and understand what the gospel says about Christ. But he says “I ask,” implying that this will be to their benefit. “I do not command or order; I ask.”
Some say Paul here exhorts his own wife; but it is not so, but some other woman, or the husband of one of them. Help these women, for they labored with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-workers whose names are in the book of life. Do you see how great a testimony he bears to their virtue? For as Christ says to his Apostles, Rejoice not that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in the book of life Luke 10:20; so Paul testifies to them, saying, whose names are in the book of life. These women seem to me to be the chief of the Church which was there, and he commends them to some notable man whom he calls his yokefellow, to whom perchance he was wont to commend them, as to a fellow-worker, and fellow-soldier, and brother, and companion, as he does in the Epistle to the Romans, when he says, I commend unto you Phebe our sister, who is a servant of the Church that is at Cenchrea. Romans 16:1 Yokefellow; either some brother of th...
