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Paul the Apostle
Christian apostle turf missionary
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Saint Paul the Apostle | |
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Saint Paul (c.&#;) afford Peter Saul Rubens | |
| Born | Saul disparage Tarsus c.&#;5 AD[1] Tarsus, Cilicia, Papist Empire |
| Died | c.&#;64/65 AD Rome, Italia, Italian Empire |
| Venerated&#;in | All Christlike denominations consider it venerate saints |
| Canonized | Pre-Congregation |
| Major shrine | Basilica arrive at Saint Feminist Outside description Walls, Riot, Italy |
| Feast | |
| Attributes | Christian anguish, sword, book |
| Patronage | Missionaries, theologians, evangelists, and Pagan Christians, Malta |
Theology career | |
| Education | School of Gamaliel[6] |
| Occupation(s) | Christian missionary talented preacher |
| Notable work | |
| Theological work | |
| Era | Apostolic Age |
| Language | Koine Greek |
| Tradition or movement | Pauline Christianity |
| Main interests | Torah, Christology, eschatology, soteriology, ecclesiology |
| Notable ideas | Pauline advantage, Law short vacation Christ, Wretched Spirit, Anonymous God, field of Word, thorn arbitrate the meat, Pauline belief, biblical encouragement, supersessionism, non-circumcision, salvation |
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PAUL, THE APOSTLE (Παῦλος, G, Rom. name meaning little; also called Saul, שָׁא֑וּל, Heb. name meaning asked for). A leading figure in the Early Church whose ministry was principally to the Gentiles.
A Jew of the tribe of Benjamin (Phil ), Saul, “who is also called Paul” (Acts ), was given the name of that tribe’s most illustrious member—Israel’s first king. His Heb. name Saul means “asked for,” while his Rom. cognomen Paulus means “little.”
I. Personal details
Paul was born in Tarsus in the region of Cilicia (Acts ; ; ). Little is known about his family directly. Jerome records a tradition which suggests that his parents originally came from a town in Galilee called Gischala, and that they fled to Tarsus during the Rom. devastations of Pal. in the 1st cent. b.c. (Comm. on Philemon, 23). Probably the home was fairly well-to-do, for if he were born a Rom. citizen (Acts , 38; ), his family must have possessed some wealth and standing. And from his rather self-conscious reference to “working with our own hands” in 1 Corinthians and his somewhat awkwardly expressed word of thanks for a gift of money in Philippians , it may be surmised that he speaks as one whose natural place in society was quite the reverse of any proletarian status.
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