But in other books of the New Testament, chiefly in the Epistles of St. In the Synoptics the name Apostle occurs but seldom with this meaning only once in Matthew and Mark. In the Gospels, however, those disciples are often designated by the expressions of mathetai (the disciples) or dodeka (the Twelve) and, after the treason and death of Judas, even of hendeka (the Eleven).
The name Apostle denotes principally one of the twelve disciples who, on a solemn occasion, were called by Christ to a special mission.At the same time, like other honourable titles, it was occasionally applied to those who in some way realized the fundamental idea of the name.
In fact, however, it was reserved to those of the disciples who received this title from Christ. It is at once evident that in a Christian sense, everyone who had received a mission from God, or Christ, to man could be called "Apostle". The word apostle would be an exact rendering of the root of the word seliah,= apostello. It seems to us that there is no reasonable doubt about the Aramaic word being seliah, by which also the later Jews, and probably already the Jews before Christ, denoted "those who were despatched from the mother city by the rulers of the race on any foreign mission, especially such as were charged with collecting the tribute paid to the temple service" (Lightfoot, "Galatians", London, 1896, p. It is obvious that our Lord, who spoke an Aramaic dialect, gave to some of his disciples an Aramaic title, the Greek equivalent of which was "Apostle". In the New Testament, on the contrary, it occurs, according to Bruder's Concordance, about eighty times, and denotes often not all the disciples of the Lord, but some of them specially called. In the Greek version of the Old Testament it occurs once, in 1 Kings 14:6 (cf. In the classical writers the word is not frequent. It has, however, a stronger sense than the word messenger, and means as much as a delegate. Apostolos (Apostle) means one who is sent forth, dispatched-in other words, who is entrusted with a mission, rather, a foreign mission. The word "Apostle", from the Greek apostello "to send forth", "to dispatch", has etymologically a very general sense. The reader will find at the end of this article various titles of other articles which contain supplementary information on subjects connected with the Apostles. on the origin of the feasts of the Apostles. on the relation of the Apostolate to the office of bishop on the authority and the prerogatives of the Apostles on the office of the Apostles and the conditions required in them Under this title it may be sufficient to supply brief and essential information, Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99.
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