Adrienne 不在圣经中——起初“基督徒”也不在



  • Adrienne 不在圣经中。它是 Adrian 的法语阴性形式,源自拉丁语 Hadrianus,意为“来自 Hadria”——那个也为亚得里亚海命名的伊特鲁里亚港口。
  • 这个名字与其自身的含义相隔了三层:一个地名的阳性形式的阴性形式。它描述的是一条路径,而非一种美德。
  • 基督徒得名的方式也大抵如此:“门徒称为基督徒是从安提阿起首”(使徒行传 11:26)。这个动词是被动的——是外人创造了这个词。
  • 教会接受了被赋予的标签,这可能最初是一种嘲讽,但教会却佩戴了它两千年。
  • 保罗说每一个家族都是从父“得名”(以弗所书 3:14-15)。在那句话里,没有人是自己创造名字的。

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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