Samuel Apostool
Samuel Apostool (born June 15, 1638 , † April 29, 1699 ) was a doctor of medicine and well-known Mennonite preacher in the Netherlands in the 17th century.
Samuel Apostool was the leader of the Sonnists, who split off from the Amsterdam Mennonite congregation in June 1664 after the latter had opened up ever more strongly to Arminianist and sometimes spiritualist ideas under the preacher Galenus Abraham de Haen . After the badge of the sun attached to the new meeting house, the new group around Apostool was called Sonnisten . The group that remained in the congregation named itself Lammists after the sign of the Lamb . Samuel Apostool and the Sonnists advocated the doctrine of predestinationand insisted on firm beliefs. The split in the Amsterdam Mennonites soon affected other Dutch Mennonite communities. Talks between Lammists and Sonnists in 1684 and 1685, in which Samuel Apostool also took part, did not lead to any real understanding. It was not until 1801 that the two parties reunited.
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| SURNAME | Apostool, Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Doctor and Mennonite preacher, leader of the Sonnist Party |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1638 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1699 |