1:1 Παῦλος ἀπόστολος, More often than not Paul introduces himself as an apostle. In Rom. 1:1 he calls himself ‘a slave (δοῦλος) of Christ Jesus’ but adds κλητὸς ἀπόστολος in the next phrase (cf. 1 Cor. 1:1); in Phil. 1:1 he describes himself and Timothy as ‘slaves of Christ Jesus’; in Phm. 1 he designates himself ‘a prisoner (δέσμιος) of Christ Jesus’. An ἀπόστολος is, in general, ‘one who is sent’ (the word is so used in Jn. 13:16), but regularly in the NT he is one who has received a