Θευδᾶς: Difference between revisions

|txtha=([[probably]] [[contracted]] from θεοδωρος, Winer s Grammar, 103 (97); [[especially]] Lightfoot on Buttmann, 20 (18)), ὁ, Theudas, an impostor [[who]] instigated a [[rebellion]] [[which]] came to a [[wretched]] [[end]] in the [[time]] of [[Augustus]]: Josephus (Antiquities, 20,5, 1) makes [[mention]] of [[one]] Theudas, a [[magician]], [[who]] came [[into]] [[notice]] by pretending [[that]] he [[was]] a [[prophet]] and [[was]] destroyed [[when]] Cuspius Fadus governed [[Judaea]] in the [[time]] of [[Claudius]]. Accordingly, [[many]] interpreters [[hold]] [[that]] [[there]] were [[two]] [[insurgents]] by the [[name]] of Theudas; [[while]] others, [[with]] [[far]] greater [[probability]], [[suppose]] [[that]] the [[mention]] of Theudas is ascribed to Gamaliel by an anachronism on the [[part]] of Luke. On the [[different]] opinions of others cf. Meyer on Acts , the [[passage]] cited; Winer s RWB, [[under]] the [[word]]; Keim in Schenkel [[see]] 510f; ([[especially]] Hackett in B. D., [[under]] the [[word]]).