404 The NEW and COMPLETE LI F E c{ our BLESSED LORD D E M A S, a GENTILE PROFESSOR. TH E' apoftle St. Paul, in the fourth chapter of the Coloffians, mentions Hems as a native of Thellalonica. At firfl he was one of the molt zealous difciples which this apoflie had had, and was very ferviceable to him at Rome during his im- prifonment there -; but fume years after, about the year of CttxtsT fixty -five, he forfook St. Paul, in order to follow a more' fecular life, and withdrew to Theffalonica, the place of his birth. Epiphanius informs us, that he renounced the faith, and with Cerinthius, Ebion, and others, held JESUS CtHRIST to be a mere man : but others affirm, that he recovered after this fall, and {bared martyrdom for the truth. ARISTARCHUS, A RISTARCIIUS was one of St. 1 - Paul's difciples, who has mentioned him in his epiftles to the Coloffians and Philemon : he is alto often mentioned in the afta of the apoftles. He was a Mace- donian, and a native of Theffalonica : he accompanied St. Paul to Ephefus, and con- tinued with him during the two years of his abode there, partaking with him in all the a GENTILE CONVERT. dangers and labours of the apofilefhip. He was very nearbeing killed in a tumult railed by the Ephefian goldfmiths. The Greeks fay he was bifhop of Apa- mea, in Syria, and was beheaded with St. Paul at Rome, in the reign of Nero; con- tinuing to the very lait inviolably attached to that apoftle, with whom he had laboured in the work of the miniftry. G A I U S, a GENTILE CONVERT. THIS perfon was alto another of St. ' and Ariftarchus accompanied him as far as Paul's difciples, and mention is made Ephefus, where they abode for Tome time of him in the ails of the apoftles. He was with St. Paul. Origen (peaks of one Gaius, probably a Macedonian, but was fettled St. Paul's difciple, who was Paid to have at Corinth, where he had the honour to been made bifhop of Theffàlonica, in Ma- lodge St. Paul during his abode there. cedonia. When the apoftle went into Afia, Gaius CLEMENT, a TH I S difciple is mentioned by St. Paul in his epillle to the Philippians, where the apoftle fays, that Clement's name is written in the book of life. The generality of the fathers, and other interpreters, make no quellion but that this is the fame Clement who fucceeded St. Peter, after Linus and Cletus, in the government of tlie.church of Rome ; and this feems tobe intimated, when in the office for St. Clement's day, that church appoints this part of the epilile to the Philippians to be read. On the con- trary, Grotius is of opinion, that the Cle- GENTILE CONVERT. ment St. Paul fpeaks ofwas no more than a prieft of the church of Philippi in Mace- donia. We have no certain accounts of what happened to St. Clement during the perfecution under Domitian ; but we arc very well allured that he lived to the third year of Trajan, which is the hundredth of JESUS CtHRiST. His feflival is let down by Bede, and all the Latin martyrologills, on the twenty-third of November. The Greeks honour him on the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth of the fame month. He is ranked amongff the martyrs. ANANIAS,
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