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From: "Elizabeth Atherton" <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] Onesiphorus
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:46:07 -0000
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" Onesiphorus - Meaning: bringing profit

Onesiphorus was an Ephesian Christian who showed great kindness to Paul at
Rome
Paul expresses a warm interest in him and his household (2 Tim. 1:16-18;
4:19). "

There was a fashion in the late 19th century - particularly among
evangelical Christians for the most obscure Biblical names. ... Elizabeth
Atherton


>
> On the subject of Christian or given names, has anyone got an
> idea as to where the name Onesiphorus comes from? A man named Onesiphorus
> Ashpital married an Elizabeth Currie at Chorley, Alderley Edge in the
1890s.
> He was actually born in London and had a sister called Augusta.
>
> TIA
>
> John Aston Coventry
>
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