Antipas (Hastings' Dictionary)

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 acts of hie martyrdom- These are to he found in the Acta Sanctorum, April 11 (April, torn. ii. pp. 2, 4, an<I 9(i7).

They are rlietorieal and lato in th«ir present form, and ^ive no par- ticulars of the saint's life They represent him aa being cast into a heated brazen bull <fi the temple of Artemis, by order of a nameless governor dunniy Domitian's persecution. He was apparently Bishop of I'ergamum. According to one form of his Acts (quoted by the Bollandists from a Sj/naxarion), he prayed that those suffering from vjothache might be relieved at hia tomb.

The bull in whicp he suffered was shown at Con- stantinople (CedrenuH, 500, -<i. Par.) In the Ethiopia calendar hia day is the lUth of Miyazui. J^J, K, jAMfiS. ANTIPATER {'AvTlTa-oos).—A., son of Jason, was one of two ambassadorn sent by Jonathan to the Romans and to tlie Spartans to renew ' the friend- ship and the confederacy' [I Mac 12"' 14~). J. A. Selbib. ANTIPATRI3 CA^-ZTroT/xO, Ac 23".— A city at the foot of the Juda.

>an hills, on the road from Jerusalem to Ca\sarea : founded by Herod the Great. The various notices of its position, in relation to places near, are fully explained by placing this city at the large ruined mound above the source of the 'Auiah River, north-east of Julia. This site is now called M&s el 'Ain, ' the si)ring-head ' ; the Greek name baring, as is usual in Palestine, been lost.

The ruins include the shell of a large medi- ajval castle, which is jirobalily that called Mirabel in the 12th cent. I'or a full discussion of this question, see SIVP vol. ii. sheet xiii. Jo.sephus has been wrongly supposed to place Antipatris at Caphar Saba, farther north (Ant. XIII. xv. 1, XVI. V. 2 ; yyars, I. xxi. 9). 0. R. CONDER. ANUB (3)iv).— A man of Judah (1 Ch 4«). See Genealogy.