Philippians 4:3 (WEB)
Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
Fathers and councils · 6
Eusebius of Caesarea
“Clement also, who was appointed third bishop of the church at Rome, was, as Paul testifies, his co-laborer and fellow-soldier.” — editor's note: Clement is mentioned in Phil. iv. 3, but is not called a “fellow-soldier.” Eusebius was evidently thinking of Paul’s references to Epaphroditus (Phil. ii. 25)…
Read the whole comment“His words are as follows: “With Clement and the rest of my fellow-laborers whose names are in the book of life.”” — editor's note: Phil. iv. 3. For an account of Clement, see above, chap. 4, note 19; and upon the order of succession of the Roman bishops, see chap. 2, note 1.
Read the whole comment“And Paul does not hesitate, in one of his epistles, to greet his wife, whom he did not take about with him, that he might not be inconvenienced in his ministry.”” — editor's note: The passage to which Clement here refers and which he quotes in this connection is 1 Cor. ix. 5; but this by no means proves that Paul was married, and 1 Cor.…
Read the whole comment“He had seen and conversed with the blessed apostles, and their preaching was still sounding in his ears, and their tradition was still before his eyes.” — editor's note: Although the identification of this Clement with the one mentioned in Phil. iv. 3 is more than doubtful, yet there is no reason to doubt that, living as he did…
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Tertullian
“You belong to Him, for you have been enrolled in the books of life.” — editor's note: Phil. iv. 3.
Read the whole comment“To meet these its counsels, do you apply the examples of sisters of ours whose names are with the Lord,—who, when their husbands have preceded them (to glory), give to no opportunity of beauty or of age the precedence over holiness.” — editor's note: Comp. Phil. iv. 3; 2 Tim. ii. 19; Mal. iii. 16; and similar passages.
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Cross-references · 11
Cited together in Church History V.6.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 13.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 13.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 13.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 13.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 13.
Cited together in Church History III.30.
Cited together in Church History III.30.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 13.
Cited together in Church History III.30.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 13.