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== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71948" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71948" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> '''Cres'cens.''' (growing). 2 Timothy 4:10. An assistant of St. Paul, said to have been one of the seventy disciples. </p> | ||
== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34947" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34947" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_35349" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_35349" /> == | ||
<p> ( | <p> (Κρήσκης, for Latin Crescens, growing), an assistant of the apostle Paul ( 2 Timothy 4:10, where he is stated to have left Rome for Galatia), A.D. 64. He is generally supposed to have been one of the seventy disciples of Christ. It is alleged in the [[Apostolical]] Constitutions (7, 46), and by the fathers of the Church, that he preached the [[Gospel]] in Galatia, a fact probably deduced conjecturally from the only text ( 2 Timothy 4:10) in which his name occurs. There is a less ancient tradition (in Sophronius), according to which [[Crescens]] preached, went into [[Gaul]] (Galatia; see [[Theodoret]] on 2 Timothy 1, c.), and became the founder of the Church in Vienne; but it deserves no notice, having probably no other foundation than the resemblance of the names Galatia and Gallia. From the fact of his having a Latin name, many have inferred that he was a [[Christian]] of Rome. (See Bechler, De Crescente, Viteb. 1689.) </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_2634" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_2634" /> == | ||
<p> '''''kres´enz''''' ( | <p> '''''kres´enz''''' ( Κρήσκης , <i> '''''Krḗskēs''''' </i> , "increasing"): An assistant of Paul, mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:10 as having gone to Galatia. That he was one of the Seventy, and that he founded the church in [[Vienna]] in Gaul, are traditions without any trustworthy basis. </p> | ||
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15416" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15416" /> == | ||
<p> Cres´cens, an assistant of St. Paul, and generally supposed to have been one of the seventy disciples of Christ. It is alleged in the | <p> Cres´cens, an assistant of St. Paul, and generally supposed to have been one of the seventy disciples of Christ. It is alleged in the Apostolical Constitutions (vii. 46), and by the fathers of the church, that he preached the Gospel in Galatia, a fact probably deduced conjecturally from the only text in which his name occurs. </p> | ||
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