Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 16:4

4. Who have for my life laid down their own necks : unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the Churches of the Gentiles .

i. e. They hazarded their own Lives to save mine. The Scripture speaks of this, as the duty of Christians, 1 Ioh. 3.16. He refers (it may be) to that Uproar that was at Corinth; of which, see Act. 18.12. Or that in Asia; of which, see Act. 19.23.

Because he was the Apostle of the Gentiles, and his Preservation redounded to the benefit of them all.

Marginal references: Or, soul.; Or, have put under their necks.