エイドリアンは聖書に登場しない — そして「クリスチャン」も最初はそうだった

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概要

  • Adrienne is not in the Bible. It is the French feminine of Adrian, from Latin Hadrianus, “from Hadria” — the Etruscan port that also named the Adriatic.
  • The name is three removes from any meaning of its own: a feminine of a masculine of a place. It describes a route rather than a virtue.
  • Christians got their name much the same way: “The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch” (Acts 11:26). The verb is passive — outsiders coined it.
  • The Church took a label handed to it, possibly as a jibe, and has worn it for two thousand years.
  • Paul says every family “derives its name” from the Father (Ephesians 3:14-15). Nobody in that sentence generated their own.

Adrienne is not in the Bible. It is the French feminine of Adrian, which is the Latin Hadrianus, “from Hadria” — a town on the north Italian coast that also gave its name to the Adriatic. Which means the name is three removes from any meaning of its own: a feminine of a masculine of a place. And that, dear friends, is very nearly how Christians got their name too. What does the name Adrienne mean? From Hadria, by way…

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Sources: Behind the Name entries for Adrienne and Adrian (French feminine of Adrian, from Latin Hadrianus, “from Hadria”); Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Acts 11:26; Ephesians 3:14-15).

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