Did Phoebe Hand-Deliver Romans?

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A “logical inference” is how Everett Harrison puts it.

Leon Morris agrees, and says Paul’s description indicates she was “an important person.” Conservative Swiss Protestant theologian, Frédéric Godet, wrote, “It has generally been admitted” that Phoebe was the bearer of this letter. Writing years later, Ralph Perry makes the same observation. William Hendriksen notes that some manuscripts even mention “in a subscript” that Phoebe carried the epistle with her.


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