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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 991 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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:Church there at the See also:time of See also:Paul's second visit. He took the See also:place formerly occupied by See also:John See also:Mark in Paul's See also:company, and in deference to Jewish feeling was circumcised. He accompanied the apostle on many. of his journeys, and was employed by him on important See also:missions (r Them, Hi. 2; 1 See also:Con iv. 17; xvi. to). Paul speaks of him as his " son," and this (see Phil. ii. 22) refers to loyal service rather than to spiritual parentage. He was especially interested in the Macedonian churches, which he helped to found. His name is associated with that of Paul in the opening See also:salutations of both epistles to the See also:Thessalonians, the second See also:epistle to the See also:Corinthians, and those to the See also:Philippians and See also:Colossians.

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.

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