Amplias
Easton's Bible Dictionary [1]
Romans 16:8
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [2]
A Roman Christian ( Romans 16:8 ).
Holman Bible Dictionary [3]
Romans 16:8
Hitchcock's Bible Names [4]
Morrish Bible Dictionary [5]
Christian at Rome, greeted by Paul as "my beloved in the Lord." Romans 16:8 .
Smith's Bible Dictionary [6]
Am'plias. (large). A Christian at Rome. Romans 16:8 . (A.D. 55).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [7]
am´pli -as (Textus Receptus Αμπλιᾶς , Ampliā́s ), the King James Version form: a contraction of Ampliatus (thus, the Revised Version (British and American); which see).
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [8]
( Ἀμπλίας ), a Christian at Rome, mentioned by Paul as one whom he particularly loved ( Romans 16:8 ), A.D. 55. It is not known with certainty who Amplias was; but the Greeks say that he was ordained bishop of Odypopolis, in Moesia, by the Apostle Andrew, and was an apostolical person, at least one of the seventy-two disciples, and a martyr. His festival, in the Greek calendar, is observed Oct. 31.
References
- ↑ Amplias from Easton's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Amplias from Fausset's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Amplias from Holman Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Amplias from Hitchcock's Bible Names
- ↑ Amplias from Morrish Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Amplias from Smith's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Amplias from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
- ↑ Amplias from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
