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In Philippians 2:25 [1] and Philemon 1:2, [2] Paul describes fellow Christians as "fellow soldiers" (in Greek, συστρατιώτῃ, sustratiōtē). [3] The image of a soldier is also used in 2 Timothy 2:3–4 [ 4 ] as a metaphor for courage, loyalty and dedication; [ 5 ] this is followed by the metaphor of an athlete , emphasising hard work.
The military saints, warrior saints and soldier saints are patron saints, martyrs and other saints associated with the military. They were originally composed of the early Christians who were soldiers in the Roman army during the persecution of Christians , especially the Diocletianic Persecution of AD 303–313.
Longinus (Greek: Λογγίνος) is the name given to the unnamed Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance, who in medieval and some modern Christian traditions is described as a convert to Christianity. [4] His name first appeared in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus. [5]
[1] [2] [3] His literary work, The True Word (also Account, Doctrine or Discourse; Greek: Hellenistic Greek: Λόγος Ἀληθής), [4] [5] survives exclusively in quotations from it in Contra Celsum, a refutation written in 248 by Origen of Alexandria. [3] The True Word is the earliest known comprehensive criticism of Christianity. [3]
A pair of blank dog tags on one ball chain. Dog tag is an informal but common term for a specific type of identification tag worn by military personnel.The tags' primary use is for the identification of casualties; they have information about the individual written on them, including identification and essential basic medical information such as blood type [1] and history of inoculations.
The phrase engraved onto a CWGC gravestone Use on a First World War gravestone for an unknown Australian lieutenant Use on a Second World War grave marker for a soldier of unknown allegiance Used on a variant headstone for geologically unstable areas Use on a 1900 Second Boer War grave marker of an unknown British soldier, though the plaque is of a later date
From this stage the transition was easy to the ordinary meaning of the term, as used ever since in Christian literature: a martyr, or witness of Christ, is a person who suffers death rather than deny his faith. Saint John, at the end of the first century, employs the word with this meaning. [6]
Christianity in the 1st century covers the formative history of Christianity from the start of the ministry of Jesus (c. 27 –29 AD) to the death of the last of the Twelve Apostles (c. 100) and is thus also known as the Apostolic Age. [citation needed] Early Christianity developed out of the eschatological ministry of Jesus.