Adrian staat niet in de Bijbel — het betekent “uit Hadria”

Adrian is not in the Bible. It is Latin — Hadrianus, “from Hadria” — and Hadria was an Etruscan port on the north Italian coast, the town that also gave its name to the Adriatic Sea. The name says nothing about virtue. It says where a family came from. And that, dear friends, turns out to be exactly how Scripture names most of the people we love. What does the name Adrian mean? “From Hadria.” The Romans used it as…