- Sopater
Sopater (so'-pa-ter, sop'-a-terref|1 (gr Σωπατρoς; Sopatros, "saviour of his father"ref|2, Easton's reads "The father who saves"ref|3, Holman's reads “sound parentage”ref|4) was the son of Pyrhusref|4, a man from the city of Berea, he accompanied Paul along with Aristarchus and Secundus the Thessalonians,
Gaius ofDerbe ,Timothy , and Trichicus and Tromphimus of Asia, out of Macedonia after a group of Jews began to plot against him. They sailed fromPhilippi toAlexandria Troas where they met Paul who had gone by land.It is commonly accepted that Sopater is the kinsman of Paul noted in [http://studylight.org/desk/?l=en&query=Romans+16%3A21§ion=0&translation=nsn&oq=Acts%252020%3A4&new=1&nb=ac&ng=20&ncc=20 Romans 16:21] as Sosipaterref|6.
References
#Note|1Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. [http://www.studylight.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T8296 Sopater] . "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915. Retrieved
December 9 ,2005 .
#Note|2Thayer, & Smith, (nd). [http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=4986 Sopatros] . "The New Testament Greek Lexicon". RetrievedDecember 9 ,2005
#Note|3Easton, M.G. (1897). [http://www.studylight.org/dic/ebd/view.cgi?number=T3481 Sopater] . "Easton's Bible Dictionary". RetrievedDecember 9 ,2005
#Note|4 [http://www.studylight.org/dic/hbd/view.cgi?number=T5964 Sopater] . (1991). Eds. Trent C. Butler. "Holman Bible Dictionary"RetrievedDecember 9 ,2005
#Note|5Thayer, & Smith, (nd). [http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=4986 Sopatros] . "The New Testament Greek Lexicon". RetrievedDecember 9 ,2005
#Note|6Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. [http://www.studylight.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T8296 Sopater] . "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915. RetrievedDecember 9 ,2005 .::*Note that all of the above cite works agree on this point.
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