Antipas
A martyr faithful unto death at Pergamos (Rev 2:13). "I know ... where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is" (the idol AEsculapius was worshipped there under the serpent form); "and thou holdest fast My name, and hast not denied My faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth." Satan, the old serpent, instigated the idol's devotees, through the magistrates at Pergamos, to slay Antipas. Compare Rev 2:10; Rev 12:1-17.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Antipas
Antipas an'-ti-pas (Antipas): The name is an abbreviation of Antipater: (1) A name of Herod "the tetrarch" (in Jos), son of Herod the Great, the brother of Archelaus (Mt 14:1; Lu 3:1; 9:7; Ac 13:1). See HEROD. (2) A martyr of the church of Pergamum, described as "my witness, my faithful one" (Re 2:13). ⇒See a list of verses on ANTIPAS in the Bible. ⇒See the definition of ant in the KJV Dictionary ⇒See also the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Antipas
On)y mentioned in Rev 2", in the Epistle to the Church of Pergamum, in the following terms : ' I knov» where thou dwellest, where the throne of Satan Is ; and tliou lioldest my name, and didst not deny my faith, even (or and) in the days of Antipas (nominative), my witncs.s, (my) faithful one, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.' Some authorities insert iv afs ('in which') after 'he word ' days ' ; and two versions take the worii Antipas as a verb, avTiiira^ ('thou didst contradict'); but tlicre is no pro- bability that this is correct. WH tliink it not unlikely that 'twrlira In the gen. should be read. Various allegorical interpretations of the name are current, one making A. the withstander of all, and identifying him with Timothy ; another descending as low as Antipas=Antipaiia. But the name must in all likolihood be that of a real man, and is probably a shortened form of Antipater. Autii>as does not occ«r In the list* of the 70 disciples (Pseud. -Dorotheus, Solomon of Brtsra), but Andrcaa find Aretiias, the conimentatore on the Auot^alypse, speak of lia\ ing read the a…
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