Post by Lee on May 9, 2014 2:15:51 GMT
SOPATER, SOSIPATER, a believer from Beroea in Macedonia (Acts 20:4), was one of the missionary party which waited for Paul at Troas, and then accompanied him to Asia on his way to Syria. Sosipater is called, in Rom. 16:21, a kinsman (syngenēs) of Paul. His greeting was sent to the church at Rome.
Some consider that the references are to the same man. Perhaps Sopater was a fruit of Paul’s preaching in Macedonia, and was therefore Paul’s kinsman in Christ. He probably represented the Beroean church in the delegation which was about to set sail with Paul to carry the Gentile churches’ contributions to Jerusalem.
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