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The Epistle to the Laodiceans is a possible writing of Paul the Apostle, the original existence of which is inferred from an instruction in the Epistle to the Colossians that the congregation should send their letter to the believing community in Laodicea, and likewise obtain a copy of the letter "from Laodicea" (Greek: ἐκ Λαοδικείας, ek Laodikeas).
His suspicions about the deaths of his sister and nephew were firmly grounded and were a part of the cause of the Third Syrian War also known as the ‘Laodicean War’ or the ‘War of Laodice’. [9] During the war, while Seleucus was fighting Ptolemy, Laodice supported the revolt of her second son against her first son.
see Laodice (Greek myth); Laodice (daughter of Priam), a princess of Troy Laodice, daughter of Agamemnon, sometimes conflated with Electra; Laodice, one of the Hyperborean maidens
According to the 4th century Apostolic Constitutions (7.46), Archippus was the first bishop of Laodicea in Phrygia (now part of Turkey). Another tradition states that he was one of the 72 disciples appointed by Jesus Christ in Luke 10:1. The Roman Catholic Church observes a feast day for Saint Archippus on March 20.
Nymphas meaning "nymph" is a person mentioned in the New Testament, either a woman or a man, depending on the accenting of the Greek text, in the New Testament saluted by Paul of Tarsus in his Epistle to the Colossians as a member of the church of Laodicea (Colossians 4:15). It is possibly a contraction of Nymphodorus (if one ascribes to the ...
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This table is a list of names in the Bible in their native languages. This table is only in its beginning stages. There are thousands of names in the Bible. It will take the work of many Wikipedia users to make this table complete.
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