Pudens

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

(Πούδης)

Pudens was a Christian of Rome who along with Eubulus, Claudia, and Linus sends greetings to Timothy (2 Timothy 4:21). He was thus on intimate terms with the apostle Paul at the time of his last Roman imprisonment. Nothing certain is known regarding him. He is supposed by many to have been the husband of the Claudia of the same verse and has been identified with the Pudens of Martial’s Epigrams, whose wife also bore the name Claudia (Epigr. iv. 13, xi. 54). For a full account of various identifications and literature, see art._ Claudia.

W. F. Boyd.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

PUDENS . Mentioned by St. Paul as sending greetings from Rome to Timothy ( 2 Timothy 4:21 : ‘Pudens and Linus and Claudia’). For the suggested relationship of these persons and identification of the first and of the last, see art. Claudia. Pudens is a common Roman name.

A. J. Maclean.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Perhaps the husband of Claudia mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:21 . These two, with Linus, are supposed to have been British subjects at Rome. The Latin poet Martial wrote some epigrams about the same date, in which he mentions three friends, whose names agree with the above. This has led to the supposition.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Pu'dens. (modest). A Christian friend of Timothy at Rome. 2 Timothy 4:21. (A.D. 84). According to legend, he was the host of St. Peter and friend of St. Paul, and was martyred under Nero.

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

One of whom Paul makes honourable mention, 2 Timothy 4:21.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(See CLAUDIA.) 2 Timothy 4:21. (Martial 11:54; Tacitus, Ann. 13:21; Agricola 14.)

Easton's Bible Dictionary

2 Timothy 4:21Claudia

Holman Bible Dictionary

2 Timothy 4:21

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

pū´denz , pū´dens ( Πούδης , Poúdēs , literally, "bashful" ( 2 Timothy 4:21 )):

1. Faithful to Paul:

One of the Christians in Rome who remained loyal to Paul during his second and last imprisonment there, when most of the members of the church "forsook him." The pressure under which they acted must have been very great, as the apostle's final trial before the supreme court of the empire followed quickly after the Neronic persecution. Their defection from their loyalty to Paul must not be taken as implying that they had also proved untrue to Christ. At this time, however, there were some of the Christians who risked their earthly all, and their lives too, in order to prove their adherence to Paul, and Pudens was one of these.

2. Pudens and Claudia:

Writing the last of all his letters, the Second Epistle to Timothy, Paul sends greeting from "all the brethren" who were then with him. Among these he names Pudens. There are three other names associated by the apostle with that of Pudens: Eubulus, Linus and Claudia. There is an interesting conjecture regarding Pudens and Claudia, that their were husband and wife, and that Claudia was of British birth, a daughter of a British king, called Cogidunus. King Cogidunus was an ally of the Romans, and assumed the name of the emperor Tiberius Claudius, who was his patron. In this way his daughter would be named Claudia. But this identification of the British princess with the Claudia who sends salutation to Timothy is only a supposition; it lacks both evidence and proof. See Claudia and Code of Hammurabi ( St. P ), chapter xxvii.

In modern Rome, however, the tourist is still shown a building which is called the house of Pudens, in the same way as "Paul's hired house" is also shown. The authenticity in both cases is lacking.

Pudens is not mentioned elsewhere in the New Testament.

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Pu´dens, one of the persons whose salutations Paul, writing from Rome, sends to Timothy . Nothing is really known of him; but the martyrologies make him to have been a person of figure at Rome, of the senatorial order, and father of two pious virgins, Praxis and Pudentia.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bibliography InformationMcClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Pudens'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/p/pudens.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.