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Alexander

Name of several men mentioned in Scripture

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Alexander, name of seven men.β€”(1) ALEXANDER THE GREAT, King of Macedon, 336-323 B.C. He is mentioned in I Mach., i, 1-10; vi, 2. He is also supposed to be spoken of in Dan., ii, 39; vii, 6; viii, 5-7; xi, 3, 4.β€”(2) ALEXANDER BALAS, eleventh King of Syria, 150-145 B.C. His struggle for the throne, his promises to Jonathan, his pro-Jewish policy may be learned from I Mach., x, 1-89. He was vanquished by his father-in-law, Ptolemy Philometor of Egypt, and Syria thus passed into the hands of Demetrius II (I Mach., xi, 1-19).β€”(3) ALEXANDER, a son of Simon of Cyrene mentioned by St. Mark (xv, 21) who carried the Cross after Jesus.β€”(4) ALEXANDER, who was a member of the court that tried Peter and John (Acts, iv, 6); some identify him with Alexander Lysimachus the brother of Philo and friend of Claudius before he ascended the throne.β€”(5) ALEXANDER, a Jew or a Jewish Christian (Acts, xix, 33, 34), who attempted to defend St. Paul in his Ephesian difficulty; some identify him with the son of Simon of Cyrene.β€”(6) ALEXANDER, an Ephesian Christian who apostatized (I Tim., i, 20), and who together with Hymeneus was delivered up to Satan by the Apostles.β€”(7) ALEXANDER, a coppersmith of Ephesus (II Tim., iv, 14, 15), who did much evil to St. Paul; some identify him with the Alexander mentioned under the preceding number.

A. J. MAAS


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