the names of the people in whose houses they met, e.g. at Philippi (Acts 16:40), Corinth (Acts 18:7), Rome (Rom. 16:5; 16:14: 16:15), Ephesus (1 Cor. 16:19), Laodicea (Col. 4:15), Colossae (Philemon 1 and 2) (see p. 99). Such phrases as “the brethren who are with them”, “the saints” (i.e. fellow Christians) “who are with them” seem to mean “who are in their house-church”. Several of these house-churches, like the one in Jerusalem, were in the homes of women, probably widows. In some cases both husband