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The Technical Apparatus
Julia is a widely attested female name in Greek in that time. Junianus or Junianus is not attested at all. Phoebe manuscripts as they're copied, sometimes people will put in annotations or little marginal notes in a manuscript for comprehension. And what they're trying to say there is she's the letter carrier. Now a big part of John Calvin says this as well; he just takes it for granted. So we have this kata mark on in Greek, which means according to Mark, that may have actually been a note added to the gospel.