TERTIUS. He was St. Paul’s Amanuensis, when he wrote his Epistle to Rom. xvi. 22.the Romans, in the Year 58. I Tertius, who wrote this Epistle, salute you in the Grot. Tol. Bez.Lord. Some think that Tertius copied this Letter from the Original written by St. Paul’s own Hand. Lightfoot conjectures Lightfoot. Chorograph. p. 123.that Tertius is the same as Silas, who accompany’d St. Paul in part of his Journies. Silas in Hebrew signifies the same as Tertius in Latin. Some Greek Editions instead of Tertius read Terentius. The Greeks keep his Feast on the tenth of November, and give him great Commendations. They make him Successor to Sosipater in the Bishoprick of Iconium.
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