Nicholas (deacon)
Nikolaus (* around 1; † in the 1st century) was a proselyte from Antioch and one of the seven deacons of the early Jerusalem community . In the New Testament he is only mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles ( Acts 6.5 EU ).
Life
According to Clemens of Alexandria , Nicholas is said to have had a very beautiful wife and was therefore accused of excessive jealousy. To refute this, he brought his wife in front of the congregation and offered that he would leave her to anyone else who wanted to marry her. While he was just trying to refute the rumors of his jealousy, it caused great anger in the community for exposing his wife. According to Eusebius of Caesarea , Nicholas had several daughters and a son, all of whom remained unmarried.
effect
He did not have a good reputation with many early church historians; Irenaeus of Lyons sees him as the progenitor of the Gnostic sect of the Nicolaitans , whose name is supposed to be derived from him. For this reason, emphasized Dimitri of Rostov him from its list of seventy disciples , though still in the thirteenth century Solomon of Basra had included it in a list of the Seventy.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis 3.
- ↑ Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia ecclesiae 3, 29.
- ↑ Ekkehardt Müller: The first and the last. Studies on the Book of Revelation . Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. a. 2011, ISBN 9783631611326 , p. 96.
- ↑ Dimitri von Rostow : The Synaxis of the Holy Seventy Apostles. Volume 5: January, compiled by Dimitri von Rostow. In: The Great Collection of the Lives of the Saints. Chrysostom Press, archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; accessed on June 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Solomon of Basra: Book of the Bee , Chapter XLIX.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nicholas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nikolaos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | early Christian deacon and heretic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | at 1 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century |