true yoke-fellow] By yoked-fellow the Apostle understandeth not his wife, as some of the ancients imagined: for he had no wife when he wrote his first Epistle to the Corinthians, as appears, 1 Corinthians 7:7. and we read not that ever he married afterwards; but either he understandeth the husband of one of the women he mentioned before, or some chief and principall pastour to whom the Epistles of the Apostles were usually addressed, and by them afterwards read before all the congregation. women which laboured with me in the Gospel] Not which preached the Gospel with Saint Paul, but who took pains to minister unto the Apostle, and were partakers of the combats and difficulties which he suffered from the enemies of the Gospel. whose names are in the book of life] See Revelation 3:5. & Revelation 20:12. & Revelation 21:27. A metaphor taken from the enrolling of Citizens, or souldiers, that they may be known and held for such. This roll is called here the Book of life, because therein are written all the elect who are ordained to eternall life, Exodus 32:32. Luke 10:20. Revelation 3:5. & Revelation 17:8. & Revelation 20:12. 15.