Blastus
BLASTUS
A chamberlain of Herod Agrippa, bribed to favor the men of Tyre and Sidon, Mal 12:20 .
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Blastus
Blastus, a chamberlain of Herod Agrippa I., is mentioned in Act 12:20 in connexion with an embassy which the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon sent to Herod at Caesarea in order to obtain terms of peace. The ambassadors obtained an audience of the prince through the influence of Blastus, who no doubt had been liberally bribed for his services. The incident of the embassy is not mentioned by Josephus nor is the name of Blastus, and this omission has been regarded by some (e.g. Krenkel) as throwing doubt on St. Lukes narrative, while others regard the incident as a proof of St. Lukes independence, or as an intentional supplement to the account of the Jewish historian.
W. F. Boyd.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Blastus
(), a man who was ” chamberlain” (cubicularius, , i.e. chief eunuch) to King Herod Agrippa, or who had the charge of his bed-chamber (Act 12:20). A.D. 44. Such persons had usually great influence with their masters, and hence the importance attached to Blastus’s favoring the peace with Tyre and Sidon.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Blastus (2)
(), a man who was ” chamberlain” (cubicularius, , i.e. chief eunuch) to King Herod Agrippa, or who had the charge of his bed-chamber (Act 12:20). A.D. 44. Such persons had usually great influence with their masters, and hence the importance attached to Blastus’s favoring the peace with Tyre and Sidon.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Blastus (2)
a Quartodeciman Montanist at Rome about the reign of Commodus (180- 192), whom Eusebius (Hist. Eccl. v, 15) names as having at that time drawn away many from the Church by his novelties. Irenaeus wrote to him a letter On Schism ( Euseb. v, 20, 21). The appendix to Tertullian’s De Prcescriptione adds to his article on the Montanists a statement that Blastus wished secretly to introduce Judaism, saying that the Pasch must be kept only on the 14th of the month, according to the law of Moses. Pascianus, in the 4th century, speaks of him as a Greek, whom he believed to be one of the many authorities to whom the Cataphrygians (i.e. Montansists) appealed. See Gieseler, K. G. I. 1, 292 sq.; Massuet, Dis. de Iren. ii, 59; Schwegler, Montanismus, p. 242, 252.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Blastus
chamberlain to king Herod Agrippa I. (Acts 12:20). Such persons generally had great influence with their masters.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Blastus
Herod Agrippa I’s chamberlain; mediator between him and the people of Tyre and Sidon, who made him their friend (Act 12:20).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Blastus
BLASTUS.A chamberlain of Agrippa I., through whose intervention the people of Tyre and Sidon secured a hearing at Csarea (Act 12:20).
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Blastus
blastus (, Blastos, shoot): The chamberlain of Herod Agrippa I, whose services as an intermediary between them and the king were gained by the people of Tyre and Sidon. These cities were dependent on Palestine for corn and other provisions, and when Herod, on the occasion of some commercial dispute, forbade the export of foodstuffs to Tyre and Sidon, they were at his mercy and were compelled to ask for peace. Having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, probably by means of a bribe, the Phoenician embassy was given an opportunity of setting their case before Herod (Act 12:20).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Blastus
Blastus, a man who was cubicularius to king Herod Agrippa, or who had the charge of his bedchamber (Act 12:20). Such persons had usually great influence with their masters, and hence the importance attached to Blastus’ favoring the peace with Tyre and Sidon.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Blastus
[Blas’tus]
Chamberlain of Herod Agrippa I: Act 12:20.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Blastus
One of Herod’s officers.
Act 12:20
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Blastus
Blas’tus. (sprout). The chamberlain, of Herod Agrippa I. Act 12:20.