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Demas (#80885)
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Concise Bible Dictionary: D
By:
George A. Morrish
Narrator:
Chris Genthree
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Fellow-laborer with Paul at Rome (
Col. 4:14
14
Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you. (Colossians 4:14)
;
Philem. 1:24
24
Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlaborers. (Philemon 24)
); of whom Paul had to write some five years later, “Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed to Thessalonica” (
2 Tim. 4:10
10
For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. (2 Timothy 4:10)
). This may signify, not that he had apostatized, but that he had fallen from Paul’s line of things through love of this present age.
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