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TIMOTHY or See also:TIMOTHEUS, in the See also:Bible (Acts xvi. 1, xvii. 14, &c.), a Lycaonian, the son of a See also:Gentile See also:father and a Jewish See also:mother, Eunice (2 Tim. i. 5), was See also:born at Lystra, and was already a member of the See also:Christian See also: He was, therefore, with Paul at See also:Rome. At a later date he is mentioned in Heb. xiii. 23 as having undergone imprisonment, but as having been released. On the basis of the epistles of Paul to Timothy, Timothy is traditionally represented as. See also:bishop of See also:Ephesus, and tradition also tells that he suffered under See also:Domitian. His martyrdom is celebrated on the 24th of See also:January in the Latin Church, on the 22nd in the See also:Greek. The apocryphal Acta Timothei (Greek and Latin) have been edited by Usenet. (See also:Bonn, 1897); cf. See also:Lipsius, Apokr. Apostelgeschichten (1884), ii. 2. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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