Claudia

CLAUDIA, a Roman Lady converted 2 Tim. iv. 21.by S. Paul. Some believe her to have been the Wife of Pudens, who is named immediately before her in S. Paul’s second Epistle to Timothy. Martial speaks of one Claudia the Wife of Pudens.¹ Others think, that Claudia was the wife of Pilate, that she returned to Rome with her Husband, and persevered in the Faith, which she had received, during her abode in Palestine. But this is absolutely apocryphal. We know not so much as the name of Pilate’s Wife; and tho’ we did know that she was called Claudia, yet what proofs have we, that she ever embraced the Christian Religion? Others will have it, that Claudia was an English Woman, and the Wife of Aulus Rufus Pudens. But these are vain conjectures.

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