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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Amplias (Man living at the time of the New Testament)
Paul greets him in the closing list of Romans as "my beloved in the Lord." The fuller form, Ampliatus, was common among slaves and freedmen, and a decorated early Christian tomb in the Catacomb of Domitilla bears it, though nobody can prove it is the same man.
Paul greets him in the closing list of Romans as "my beloved in the Lord." The fuller form, Ampliatus, was common among slaves and freedmen, and a decorated early Christian tomb in the Catacomb of Domitilla bears it, though nobody can prove it is the same man.
A Christian in Rome whom Paul greets warmly as "my beloved in the Lord" in the list of greetings that closes Romans (Romans 16:8). The fuller Greek form of the name, Ampliatus, was common among slaves and freedmen, and a decorated early Christian tomb in the Catacomb of Domitilla bears that name, though it cannot be proven to belong to the same man Paul greets.
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- Romans 16:8
