Julian staat niet in de Bijbel — maar Julius wel, in Handelingen 27

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Samenvatting

  • Julian is not in the Bible. It comes from the Roman name Iulianus, “of Julius,” from the family of Julius Caesar.
  • Two related names appear in the New Testament: Julius, a centurion (Acts 27:1), and Julia, a believer Paul greets in Romans 16:15.
  • Julius let Paul visit friends at Sidon (Acts 27:3) and, after the shipwreck off Malta, kept the soldiers from killing the prisoners to spare Paul’s life (Acts 27:42-43).
  • Julian of Norwich, an English anchoress who lived from about 1343 to after 1416, wrote Revelations of Divine Love, the earliest surviving writings in English attributed to a woman.

Julian is not in the Bible, but Julius, the name it comes from, is. Julian comes from the Roman name Iulianus, derived from the family name Julius, and Acts 27 tells of a centurion named Julius who guarded Paul on his voyage to Rome. What does Julian mean? Julian means “of Julius,” that is, belonging to the Julian family. The Julii were a patrician family of Rome who claimed descent from Iulus, the son of Aeneas, and their most famous…

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Sources: Behind the Name entries for Julian and Julius; Wikipedia, “Julian of Norwich”; Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Romans 16:15; Acts 27:1, 3, 37, 42-44).

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