Bartholomew

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a son that suspends the waters
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


BARTHOLOMEW.—One of the Twelve, mentioned only in the lists of the Apostles (Mat_10:3 = Mar_3:18 = Luk_6:14). Jerome says that he wrote a Gospel, preached to the Indians, and died at Albanopolis in Armenia. Bartholomew is really not a name, but a patronymic—Bar Talmai = ‘son of Talmai’ (cf. 2Sa_13:37). See Nathanael.
David Smith.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


("son of Tolmai or Talmai"), an Old Testament name, Jos_14:14. One of Christ's 12 apostles (Mat_10:3; Mar_3:18; Luk_6:14; Act_1:13). His own name probably was Nathanael (Joh_1:45-51), just as Joses or Joseph is called Barnabas. The three synoptical Gospels never mention Nathanael, John never mentions Bartholomew; the two names belong probably to the same person. Brought by Philip to Jesus. It is in undesigned accordance with this that Philip is coupled with Bartholomew in the first three lists, as Philip is coupled with Nathanael in John 1. The place given him also in the fishing after the resurrection of the Lord (Joh_21:2) implies his being one of the twelve. Thomas is put before him and after Matthew in Act_1:13 (See APOSTLE), perhaps because of his taking a more prominent position spiritually after his doubts were removed.
Nathanael was of Cans in Galilee. India (i.e. Arabia Felix, as many think) is assigned to him as his subsequent sphere of missionary labors (Eusebius, H. E. 5:10). His prominent characteristics: narrowness of prejudice in him ("Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?") immediately gave place to conviction, when the Savior revealed Himself. Like Jacob, he wrestled alone with God in prayer under the fig tree. But, unlike that cunning supplanter, he was "an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile"; compare Rev_14:5. Adam and Eve vainly cloaked their shame under fig leaves. Nathanael bored his whole soul before God under the fig tree in simplicity and sincerity. Fearless candor made him avow his convictions as promptly as he reached them, "Thou art the Son of God, Thou art the King of Israel."
His reward was according to his faith: "Whosoever hath, to him shall be given." "Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these: hereafter (from this time forth, Greek) ye (not merely thou alone, but all My disciples) shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man," the true ladder between earth and heaven, of which that in Jacob's dream was the type (Gen_28:12), and upon which angels delight to minister.
The "ascending" stands first, because the Lord was now below on earth, not above, as when Jacob saw Him; and from Him as their center they go up, and to Him they return: the communication between earth and heaven, closed by sin, is opened by Christ's making earth His home. His miracles and His teaching and His divine manifestation, of which Bartholomew had just a taste, were a sample and installment of a continually progressing opening of heaven to earth and earth to heaven (Rev_4:1; Act_7:56; Heb_9:8; Heb_10:19-20) wherein angels minister to and for Him (Luk_2:9; Luk_2:13; Luk_22:43; Act_1:10); to be consummated when "the tabernacle of God shall be with men," and "the holy Jerusalem shall descend out of heaven from God" (Revelation 21; 1Co_13:12).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Barthol'omew. (son of Tolmai). One of the twelve apostles of Christ. Mat_10:3; Mar_3:18; Luk_6:14; Act_1:13. It has been not improperly conjectured that, he is identical with Nathanael. Joh_1:45. ff. He is said to have preached the gospel in India, that is, probably, Arabia Felix, and according to some in Armenia.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


one of the twelve Apostles, Mat_10:3, is supposed to be the same person who is called Nathanael, one of the first of Christ's disciples. This opinion is founded on the circumstance, that as the evangelist John never mentions Bartholomew in the number of the Apostles, so the other evangelists never mention Nathanael. And as in Joh_1:45, Philip and Nathanael are mentioned together as coming to Jesus, so in the other evangelists Philip and Bartholomew are constantly associated together. The supposition also acquires additional probability from considering, that Nathanael is particularly mentioned among the Apostles to whom Christ appeared at the sea of Tiberias, after his resurrection; Simon Peter, Thomas, and Nathanael, of Cana in Galilee; the sons of Zebedee, namely, James and John; with two other of his disciples, probably Andrew and Philip, Joh_21:2. It is an early tradition, that Bartholomew propagated the faith as far as India, and also in the more northern and western parts of Asia, and that he finally suffered martyrdom. But all the particulars respecting the life and labours of the Apostles, not mentioned in the New Testament, are exceedingly uncertain.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.


bar-thol?ō̇-mū (Βαρθολομαῖος, Bartholomaı́os, i.e. ?son of Tolmai or Tolmai?): One of the Twelve Apostles (Mat_10:3; Mar_3:18; Luk_6:14; Act_1:13). There is no further reference to him in the New Testament. According to the ?Genealogies of the Twelve Apostles? (Budge, Contendings of the Apostles, II, 50) ?Bartholomew was of the house of Naphtali. Now his name was formerly John, but our Lord changed it because of John the son of Zebedee, His beloved.? A ?Gospel of Bartholomew? is mentioned by Hieronymus (Comm. Proem ad Matth.), and Gelasius gives the tradition that Bartholomew brought the Hebrew gospel of Matthew to India. In the ?Preaching of Bartholomew in the Oasis? (compare Budge, II, 90) he is referred to as preaching probably in the oasis of Al Bahn?s?, and according to the ?Preaching of Andrew and Bartholomew? he labored among the Parthians (Budge, II, 183). The ?Martyrdom of Bartholomew? states that he was placed in a sack and cast into the sea.
From the 9th century onward, Bartholomew has generally been identified with Nathanael, but this view has not been conclusively established. See NATHANAEL.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Barthol?omew (the son of Tolmai, 2Sa_13:37) was one of the twelve Apostles, and is generally supposed to have been the same individual who in John's Gospel is called Nathanael. The reason of this opinion is, that in the three first Gospels Philip and Bartholomew are constantly named together, while Nathanael is nowhere mentioned; on the contrary, in the fourth Gospel the names of Philip and Nathanael are similarly combined, but nothing is said of Bartholomew. Nathanael therefore must be considered as his real name, while Bartholomew merely expresses his filial relation. He was a native of Cana in Galilee (Joh_21:2). He was introduced by Philip to Jesus, who, on seeing him approach, at once pronounced that eulogy on his character which has made his name almost synonymous with sincerity: 'Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile' (Joh_1:47). He was one of the disciples to whom our Lord appeared after his resurrection, at the Sea of Tiberias (Joh_21:2); he was also a witness of the Ascension, and returned with the other Apostles to Jerusalem (Act_1:4; Act_1:12-13). Of his subsequent history we have little more than vague traditions.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Bartholomew
(Βαρθολομαῖος, for Chald. תָּלְמִי בִּר, i.e. son of Tolmai; the latter being a name that occurs in Jos_15:14, Sept. Θολαμί and Θολμαϊv; Auth. Vers. Talmai; 2Sa_13:37, Sept. Θολμί and Θολομαι. In Josephus we find Θολομαῖος, Ant. 20:1, 1. The Θολμαῖος in Ant. 14:8, 1, is called Πτολεμαῖος in War, 1:9, 3, not improbably by an error of the transcriber, as another person of the latter name is mentioned in the same sentence), one of the twelve apostles of Christ (Mat_10:3; Mar_3:18; Luk_6:14; Act_1:13), generally supposed to have been the same individual who in John's Gospel is called NATHANAEL SEE NATHANAEL (q.v.). The reason of this opinion is that in the first three gospels Philip and Bartholomew are constantly named together, while Nathanael is nowhere mentioned; on the contrary, in the fourth gospel the names of Philip and Nathanael are similarly combined, but nothing is said of Bartholomew (see Assemani, Biblioth. Orient. III, 1:306; 2:4 sq.; Nahr, De Nathan. a Bartholom. non diverso, Lips. 1740). Nathanael, therefore, must be considered as his real name, while Bartholomew merely expresses his filial relation (see Lightfoot, Hor. Hebr. p. 325). If so, he was a native of Cana in Galilee (Joh_21:2). Bernard and Abbot Rupert were of opinion that he was the bridegroom at the marriage of Cana. (For traditions respecting his parentage, see Cotelerius, Patr. Apost. 372). He was introduced by Philip to Jesus, who, on seeing him approach, at once pronounced that eulogy on his character which has made his name almost synonymous with sincerity, “Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile” (Joh_1:47). A.D. 26. He was one of the disciples to whom our Lord appeared after his resurrection, at the Sea of Tiberias (Joh_21:2); he was also a witness of the ascension, and returned with the other apostles to Jerusalem (Act_1:4; Act_1:12-13). A.D. 29. On his character, see Niemeyer, Charakt. 1:111 sq. SEE APOSTLE.
Of the subsequent history of Bartholomew, or Nathanael, we have little more than vague traditions. According to Eusebius (Hist. Eccles.v. 10), when Pantaenus went on a mission to the Indians (toward the close of the second century), he found among them the Gospel of Matthew, written in Hebrew, which had been left there by the Apostle Bartholomew. Jerome (De Vir. Illustr. c. 36) gives a similar account, and adds that Pantaenus brought the copy of Matthew's Gospel back to Alexandria with him. SEE MATTHEW, GOSPEL OF. But the title of “Indians” is applied by ancient writers to so many different nations that it is difficult to determine the scene of Bartholomew's labors. Mosheim (with whom Neander agrees) is of opinion that it was a part' of Arabia Felix, inhabited by Jews to whom alone a Hebrew gospel could be of any service. Socrates (Hist. Eccles. 1, 19) says that it was the India bordering on Ethiopia; and Sophronius reports that Bartholomew preached the Gospel of Christ to the inhabitants of India Felix (Ι᾿νδοῖς τοῖς καλουμένοις εὐδαίμοσιν). This apostle is said to have suffered crucifixion with his head downward at Albanopolis, in Armenia Minor (Assemani, Bibl. Orient. III, 2:20), or, according to the pseudo-Chrysostom (Opp. 8:622, ed. Par. nov.), in Lycaonia; according to Nicephorus. at, Urbanopolis, in Cilicia (see Abdias, in Fabricius, Cod. Apocr. 2:685 sq.; Baronius, ad Martyrol. Romans p. 500 sq.; Perionii Vitae Apostolor. p. 127 sq.). SEE BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY.
A spurious GOSPEL which bears his name is in the catalogue of apocryphal books condemned by Pope Gelasius (Fabric. Cod. Apocr. N.T. 1:341 sq.). SEE GOSPELS, SPURIOUS.



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