1Co 16:17, came from Corinth to Ephesus, to visit Paul. Paul speaks of Stephanus. Fortunatus, and Achaicus as the first fruits of Achaia, and as set for the service of the church and saints. They carried Paul's first epistle to Corinth.

fortunate, a disciple of Corinth who visited Paul at Ephesus, and returned with Stephanas and Achaicus, the bearers of the apostle's first letter to the Corinthians (1Co 16:17).

(1Co 16:17). Of Stephanas' household probably 1Co 1:16), which Paul himself baptized. At Ephesus with Stephanas and Achaicus when Paul wrote 1 Corinthians.

The name of an apparently young member of the household of Stephanas, and a Corinthian. With Stephanas and Achaicus he visited St. Paul at Ephesus (1Co 16:17); he had probably been baptized by the Apostle himself (1Co 1:16). Lightfoot (Clement, i. 29, ii. 187) thinks that he may well have been alive forty years later, and that he may be the Fortunatus mentioned in Clement of Rome's Epistle to the Corinthians (

Fortuna'tus

A Christian of Corinth mentioned by Paul. 1Co 16:17. Apparently the same that is alluded to by Clement the apostolic father in his first Epistle.

Fortuna'tus

(fortunate)

1Co 16:17

one of the three Corinthians the others being Stephanas and Achaicus, who were at Ephesus when St. Paul wrote his first epistle. There is a Fortunatus mentioned in the end of Clement's first epistle to the Corinthians, who was possibly the same person.