Demas

Narrator: Chris Genthree
Fellow-laborer with Paul at Rome (Col. 4:1414Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you. (Colossians 4:14); Philem. 1:2424Marcus, 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. 4:1010For 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.