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Easton's Bible Dictionary
a foster-child, an Ephesian
who accompanied Paul during
a part of his third missionary
journey ( Acts
20:4 ; 21:29
). He was with Paul in Jerusalem,
and the Jews, supposing that
the apostle had brought him
with him into the temple, raised
a tumult which resulted in Paul's
imprisonment. (See TEMPLE, HEROD'S.)
In writing to Timothy, the apostle
says, "Trophimus have I left
at Miletum sick" ( 2
Timothy 4:20 ). This must
refer to some event not noticed
in the Acts.
Hitchcock's Dictionary of
Bible Names
well educated; well brought
up
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(nutritious) Both Trophimus
and Tychicus accompanied Paul
from Macedonia as far as Asia,
but Tychicus seems to have remained
there, while Trophimus proceeded
with the apostle to Jerusalem.
(A.D. 54.) There he was the
innocent cause of the tumult
in which St. Paul was apprehended.
( Acts
21:27 - 29
) From this passage we learn
two new facts, viz. that Trophimus
was a Gentile, and that he was
a native of Ephesus. Trophimus
was probably one brethren who,
with Titus, conveyed the second
Epistle to the Corinthians.
( 2
Corinthians 8:16 - 24
)
[See TYCHICUS]
International Standard Bible
Encyclopedia
trof'-i-mus (Trophimos, literally,
"a foster child" (Acts
20:4 ; 21:29
; 2
Timothy 4:20)):
An Asiatic Christian, a friend
and companion-in-travel of the
apostle Paul.
1. An Ephesian:
In the first of the three passages
in which Trophimus is mentioned,
he and Tychicus are called Asianoi,
that is, natives of the Roman
province of Asia; and making
it still more definite, in Acts
21:29, he is termed an "Ephesian."
Trophimus was one of eight friends,
who accompanied Paul at the
close of his 3rd missionary
journey, and traveled with him
from Greece through Macedonia
into Asia, and onward by sea
until Jerusalem was reached
(see TYCHICUS).
Trophimus went with Paul all
the way, for, in the second
of the passages referred to,
he is mentioned as being with
Paul in Jerusalem immediately
on the close of this journey.
2. Cause of Paul's Arrest:
He was the innocent cause of
Paul being assaulted, in the
courts of the temple by the
Jewish mob, and then of his
being arrested and imprisoned
by the Romans. The occasion
of this outrage was that the
Jews supposed that Paul had
"brought Greeks also into the
temple, and .... defiled this
holy place" (Acts
21:28). The modicum of fact
lying at the root of this false
accusation was that they had
seen Paul and Trophimus in each
other's company in the city.
On this slender basis "they
supposed" that Paul had brought
Trophimus past the barrier or
middle wall of partition (Ephesians
2:14; see PARTITION), beyond
which no Gentile was allowed
to penetrate on pain of death.
They supposed that Trophimus
who was neither a Jew nor a
proselyte, but Gentile Christian,
had been introduced into the
temple itself by Paul--which
would have been profanation.
Hence, their fury against the
apostle.
How strongly they insisted on
the crime which Trophimus was
falsely alleged to have committed
on that occasion, is seen again
in the way in which the orator
Tertullus repeated the charge
against Paul before the Roman
governor Felix, who moreover
assayed to profane the temple"
(Acts
24:6).
3. At Miletus:
The third reference to Trophimus
is in 2
Timothy 4:20, "Trophimus
I left at Miletus sick." This
final notice shows that he was
again--several years after the
date indicated in the previous
passages--traveling with Paul
on one of the missionary journeys
which the apostle undertook
after being liberated from his
first imprisonment in Rome.
It is exceedingly difficult,
perhaps impossible, to trace
the course of the different
journeys which Paul now made,
as there is no such narrative
as is given in Acts for the
former journeys, but merely
incidental notices of his later
travels, in the Pastoral Epistles.
In this, the last of all his
letters--2 Timothy--Paul indicates
various places which he had
visited, and also the names
of friends who traveled with
him on this the last of his
apostolic journeys.
Among other places, he had visited
Miletus, a city on the coast
of the province of Asia; and
there his old friend Trophimus
had been laid down with illness,
so severe that he could travel
no farther, but Paul left him
"at Miletus sick." It is to
be noted that Miletus was not
far from Ephesus, which was
Trophimus' native city. There
would be much intercourse between
the two cities (see Acts
17, where Paul sends for
the elders of the church at
Ephesus to come to him at Miletus,
which they did). Trophimus therefore,
in his sickness, could easily
reach Ephesus, or his friends
from that city could quickly
come to him at Miletus, and
give him whatever attention
and nursing he might require.
4. The Description of 2
Corinthians 8:18:
It has been conjectured that
Trophimus is to be identified
with the person mentioned in
2
Corinthians 8:16 - 24.
Paul there speaks in the highest
terms of one of his companions--but
without giving his name--whom
he sent with Titus. Titus and
this disciple were evidently
those to whose care Paul entrusted
the carrying of the Second Epistle
to the Corinthians to its destination.
The apostle says of this unnamed
brother, not only that his praise
is in the gospel throughout
all the churches, but also that
he was chosen by the churches
to travel with him, i.e. with
Paul, with this grace, i.e.
with the contribution of money
collected in the Gentile churches
for the poor saints in Jerusalem.
Now it is certain that at the
close of his 3rd missionary
journey Paul carried these gifts
to Jerusalem ("I came to bring
alms to my nation, and offerings,"
Acts
24:17); and some of the
eight friends who accompanied
him on the journey (Acts
20:4) were those who had
been entrusted by the churches
with the safe conveyance of
the money. Speaking of these
collections, Paul writes (1
Corinthians 16:3 - 4).
"Whomsoever ye shall approve,
them will I send with letters
to carry your bounty unto Jerusalem:
and if it be meet for me to
go also, they shall go with
me." These conditions were fulfilled,
when Paul and his eight friends
traveled from Greece to Jerusalem,
carrying the money with them.
There is therefore certainty
that one of the eight is the
brother referred to in 2
Corinthians 8:18, whose
praise in the gospel was in
all the churches, and whom the
churches had appointed to travel
with Paul for the purpose of
carrying the money contribution,
and whom Paul had "many times
proved earnest in many things"
(2
Corinthians 8:18 , 8:19
,
8:22). The eight were Sopater
of Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus,
both from Thessalonica, Gaius
of Derbe, Timothy, Tychicus
and Trophimus, both "Asians,"
and lastly Luke.
There is certainly the possibility
that the unnamed brother was
Trophimus: if not Trophimus,
then he was one of the other
seven. Of these seven, by the
process of elimination, the
unnamed brother could only be
one of those who traveled with
Paul the whole distance as far
as Jerusalem, for this was the
work which "the brother" had
been appointed by the churches
to do. Now it is certain that
Luke and Trophimus were with
him on his arrival in Jerusalem
(Acts
21:17 ,
21:29). Therefore the brother
whose praise in the gospel was
in all the churches may very
well have been Trophimus: if
not Trophimus, then possibly
Luke or Aristarchus. Gaius and
Aristarchus are termed "Paul's
companions in travel" (Acts
19:29); and Aristarchus
was afterward with Paul in Palestine,
and sailed with him to Rome.
It is quite remarkable that
the same word, sunekdemos, "companion
in travel," is applied to the
unnamed brother (2
Corinthians 8:19), and to
Gaius and Aristarchus in Acts
19:29.
As the conditions do not seem
to be satisfied in Sopater,
Secundus or Timothy, the brother
so highly commended must have
been either Luke or Gaius or
Aristarchus or Tychicus or Trophimus.
John Rutherfurd
RELATED:
Paul,
Tychicus
Copyright
Information: "Easton's
Bible Dictionary", Matthew
George Easton M.A., D.D., 1897;
"Hitchcock's Dictionary
of Bible Names", Roswell
D. Hitchcock, 1869; "International
Standard Bible Encyclopedia",
Orr, James, M.A., D.D., 1915;
and "Smith's Bible Dictionary",
Smith, William, Dr., 1901. are
public domain and may be freely
used and distributed. |
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