Urbanus
Urbanus
(, a Latin name, common among slaves and found in inscriptions of the Imperial household)
Urbanus is saluted by St. Paul in Rom 16:9 and described as our fellow-worker in Christ ( ). Prisca and Aquila are saluted in Rom 16:3 as my fellow-workers in Christ Jesus, and Timothy is referred to in Rom 16:21 as my fellow-worker. Elsewhere the term is used of Aristarchus (Col 4:11, Phm 1:24), Clement and others (Php 4:3), Demas (Phm 1:24), Epaphroditus (Php 2:25), Jesus Justus (Col 4:11), Luke (Phm 1:24), Mark (Col 4:10, Phm 1:24), Philemon (Phm 1:2), Titus (2Co 8:23). It is the commonest of the designations used by St. Paul (cf. the use of the verb in connexion with the household of Stephanas, 1Co 16:18 : ). The Apostle and his fellow-workers were also fellow-workers with God (1Co 3:9, ). Outside St. Pauls Epistles the only other use of in the NT is 3Jn 1:8, where hospitality to Christians is commended, that we may be fellow-workers with the truth. Nothing further is known to us of the form which the work of Urbanus took, but it is clear that he assisted the Apostle in his missionary labours in some way well known to the readers of these salutations. We shall suppose him to have been resident at the time of writing in Rome or in Ephesus, according to our view of the destination of Romans 16. In the adjective our the Apostle may include with himself either the pair he has just named [Prisca and Aquila], or the whole of those mentioned in the list before Urban us; or, on the other hand, his constant companions like Timothy, Silvanus, and Titus (see C. von Weizscker, Apostolic Age, Eng. translation , i. [1894] 394).
T. B. Allworthy.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Urbanus
URBANUS.A Christian greeted by St. Paul in Rom 16:8. The name is common among slaves, and is found in inscriptions of the Imperial household.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Urbanus
ur-banus (, Ourbanos; the King James Version Urbane): A common slave name. Gifford says that it is found as here, in juxtaposition with Ampliatus, in a list of imperial freedmen, on an inscription, 115 AD. He was a member of the Christian community at Rome to whom Paul sent greetings. Paul calls him our fellow-worker in Christ (Rom 16:9). The ‘our’ (as opposed to ‘my,’ Rom 16:3) seems to suggest that all Christian workers had a common helper in Urbanus (Denney).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Urbanus
Ur’banus. The form given in the Revised Version for Urbane.