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== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_55105" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_55105" /> == | ||
<p> (Ἀσύγκριτος, or Ἀσύνκριτος, a Greek name) </p> <p> The first of a group of live names (all Greek) of persons ‘and the brethren with them’ saluted by St. Paul in Romans 16:14. Nothing is known of [[Asyncritus]] or of any member of this group. It is suggested that together they formed a separate ἐκκλησία, or church, within the Church of Rome. That such little communities existed in Rome, each with its own place of meeting, would appear from other similar phrases in Romans 16 : ‘the church that is in their house’ ( Romans 16:5), ‘all the saints that are with them’ ( Romans 16:15), and from the references to the [[Christian]] members of the ‘households’ of [[Aristobulus]] and [[Narcissus]] ( Romans 16:10-11). This, of course, assumes the Roman destination of these salutations. If the [[Ephesian]] destination be preferred, there is evidence of similar house-churches at [[Ephesus]] in 1 Corinthians 16:19, and perhaps in Acts 20:20 (see articlePatrobas). The name Asyncritus has been found in an inscription of a freedman of [[Augustus]] (see Sanday-Headlam, <i> Romans </i> 5, 1902, p. 427). </p> <p> | <p> (Ἀσύγκριτος, or Ἀσύνκριτος, a Greek name) </p> <p> The first of a group of live names (all Greek) of persons ‘and the brethren with them’ saluted by St. Paul in Romans 16:14. Nothing is known of [[Asyncritus]] or of any member of this group. It is suggested that together they formed a separate ἐκκλησία, or church, within the Church of Rome. That such little communities existed in Rome, each with its own place of meeting, would appear from other similar phrases in Romans 16 : ‘the church that is in their house’ ( Romans 16:5), ‘all the saints that are with them’ ( Romans 16:15), and from the references to the [[Christian]] members of the ‘households’ of [[Aristobulus]] and [[Narcissus]] ( Romans 16:10-11). This, of course, assumes the Roman destination of these salutations. If the [[Ephesian]] destination be preferred, there is evidence of similar house-churches at [[Ephesus]] in 1 Corinthians 16:19, and perhaps in Acts 20:20 (see articlePatrobas). The name Asyncritus has been found in an inscription of a freedman of [[Augustus]] (see Sanday-Headlam, <i> Romans </i> 5, 1902, p. 427). </p> <p> T. B. Allworthy. </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_49608" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_49608" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> ASYNCRITUS </strong> ( Romans 16:14 ). A Christian greeted by St. Paul with four others ‘and the brethren that are with them,’ perhaps members of the same small community. The name occurs in Rom. Ins. <em> CIL </em> vi. 12,565, of a freedman of Augustus. </p> | ||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71416" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71416" /> == | ||
<p> '''Asyn'critus.''' ''( | <p> '''Asyn'critus.''' ''(Incomparable).'' A Christian at Rome, saluted by St. Paul. Romans 16:14. </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_64956" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_64956" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> A Christian at Rome to whom Paul sends salutations. Romans 16:14 . </p> | ||
== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34519" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34519" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> A Roman Christian ( Romans 16:14). </p> | ||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_38593" /> == | == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_38593" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_21416" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_21416" /> == | ||
<p> (Ἀσύγκριτος, '' | <p> (Ἀσύγκριτος, ''Not'' to be ''Compared),'' the name of a Christian at Rome to whom Paul sent a salutation ( Romans 16:14), A.D. 55. The Greek Church hold that he was a bishop of Hyrcania, and observe his festival April 8. </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_1159" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_1159" /> == | ||
