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SILAS (fl. A.D. 50)

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SILAS (fl. A.D. 50)

SILAS (fl. A.D. 50) , See also:

early See also:

Christian See also:

PROPHET (Irpo4i ri7s)

prophet and missionary, was the See also:

COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion of St See also:

Paul on the second See also:

JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey, when he took the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place formerly held by See also:

BARNABAS

Barnabas. The tour included S. See also:

GALATIA

Galatia, Troas, See also:

PHILIPPI (Turk. Filibejik)

Philippi (where he was imprisoned), Thessalonica and Beroea, where Silas was See also:

LEFT

left with See also:

Timothy, though89 he afterwards rejoined Paul at See also:

Corinth. He is in all See also:

PROBABILITY (Lat. probabilis, probable or credible)

probability the See also:

SILVANUS (Lat. silva, wood)

Silvanus ' who is associated with Paul in the letters to the See also:

THESSALONIANS, EPISTLES TO THE

Thessalonians, mentioned again in 2 See also:

COR

Cor. i. 19, and the See also:

BEARER

bearer and See also:

AMANUENSIS (a Latin word, derived from the phrase servus a menu, slave of the hand, a secretary)

amanuensis of 1 See also:

Peter (see v. 12). It is possible, indeed, that he has an even closer connexion with this See also:

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter, and some scholars (e.g. R. See also:

Scott in The Pauline Epistles, 1909) are inclined to give him a prominent place among the writers of the New Testament.. He was of Jewish See also:

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth and probably also a See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

CITIZEN (a form corrupted in Eng., apparently by analogy with " denizen," from O. Fr. citeain, mod. Fr. citoyen)

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