Sopater
SOPATER
A Berean Christian, and one of those who attended Paul from Greece into Asia Minor, Mal 20:4 . He is supposed to have been the kinsman of Paul called Sosipater in 1Ch 16:21 .
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Sopater
(, a common Greek name)
Sopater is mentioned in Act 20:4 as a companion of St. Paul, who accompanied him from Greece to Asia Minor on his return journey to Palestine, whither he was bearing the offering of the churches for the poor among the saints that are at Jerusalem (Rom 15:26). It has been conjectured that all the persons referred to in Act 20:4 were delegates of their respective communities appointed in the matter of this grace (2Co 8:19). If this was so, we shall suppose that they went all the way to Jerusalem. We know that one of them, Trophimus, did so (Act 21:29), and evidently also Aristarchus (Act 27:2). Sopater was perhaps the delegate of the church at BerCEa. He is described as a native of that place (), and was perhaps a Hellenistic Jew, one of those who contrasted so favourably with the Jews of Thessalonica, one of the many who believed during the Apostles visit (Act 17:10-14). If he was not a Jew he cannot be identified, as is sometimes suggested, with Sosipater (q.v. [Note: .v. quod vide, which see.] ), whose salutation is sent by St. Paul in Rom 16:21, and who is described as one of the Apostles kinsmen, i.e. fellow-Jews. Nothing further is known of Sopater than that he was the son of Pyrrhus ( ), of whom, however, we are entirely ignorant. The patronymic is omitted by Textus Receptus and Authorized Version but is found in ABDE, several ancient versions, and Revised Version . See article Pyrrhus.
T. B. Allworthy.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Sopater
(, i.e. savior of his father, a common Greek name), the son of Pyrrhus of Beroea, was one of the companions of Paul on his return from Greece into Asia as he came back from his third missionary journey (Act 20:4). A.D. 55. Whether he is the same with SOSIPATER SEE SOSIPATER (q.v.) mentioned in Rom 16:21 cannot be positively determined. The name of his father, Pyrrhus, is omitted in the received text, though it has the authority of the oldest MSS., A, B, D, E, and the recently discovered Codex Sinaiticus, as well as of the Vulgate, Coptic, Sahidic, Philoxenian-Syriac, Armenian, and Slavonic versions. Mill condemns it, apparently without reason, as a traditional gloss.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Sopater
the father who saves, probably the same as Sosipater, a kinsman of Paul (Rom. 16:21), a Christian of the city of Berea who accompanied Paul into Asia (Acts 20:4-6).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Sopater
“Son of Pyrrhus” (in the Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Alexandrinus manuscripts), of Berea, was one of Paul’s companions on his return from Greece to Asia, after his third missionary journey (Act 20:4).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Sopater
sopa-ter, sopa-ter (, Sopatros): the Revised Version (British and American) the son of Pyrrhus; the King James Version omits. A man of Berea who is mentioned with some Thessalonians and others as accompanying Paul as far as Asia on his return to Jerusalem after his 3rd missionary journey (Act 20:4). He is probably the same as the Sosipater of Rom 16:21.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Sopater
Sopater, a Christian at Berea, and one of the party of brethren who accompanied Paul into Asia Minor from Greece (Act 20:4). He is supposed to be the same with the Sosipater named in Rom 16:21; and, if so, was a kinsman of St. Paul.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Sopater
[So’pater]
A believer of Berea who accompanied Paul from Greece into Asia. Act 20:4. The Editors of the Greek Testament add ‘[son] of Pyrrhus.’
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Sopater
A Christian of Berea.
Act 20:4
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Sopater
Sop’ater. (saviour of his father). Son of Pyrrhus or Berea, was one of the companions of St. Paul, on his return from Greece into Asia. Act 20:4. (A.D. 55).