Atlas Biblica

    person

    Erastus

    Ἔραστος

    Erastus was a companion of Paul who served as the city treasurer in Corinth.

    verses
    3
    first named
    Acts 19:22
    last named
    2 Timothy 4:20
    period
    the New Testament
    role
    Man

    Description

    Who was Erastus?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Erastus was a companion of the apostle Paul, mentioned in several New Testament passages. He was sent by Paul, along with Timothy, from Ephesus to Macedonia (Act.19.22). In his letter to the Romans, Paul mentions that Erastus, the city treasurer, sends his greetings (Rom.16.23), indicating that he held an important position in Corinth. Later, in his second letter to Timothy, Paul writes that Erastus stayed in Corinth (2Ti.4.20). These references suggest that Erastus was a trusted associate of Paul and played a significant role in the early church.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Erastus 6 of 6 entities the graph connects to Erastus, in one group: events 6. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.Paul1 event · 182 versesTimothy1 event · 28 versesMacedonia1 event · 27 versesCorinth1 event · 11 versesGaius1 event · 2 versesQuartus1 event · 1 verseErastus

    Stands in the same events as

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Erastus happens The one place the claims about Erastus reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Corinth. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Erastus there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Corinth
    the New TestamentThe one place the claims about Erastus reach

    The pattern

    Where Erastus is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 3 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSACTS–ROMANS2 VERSES43 books and 1,018 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 3 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSACTS–ROMANS2 VERSES43 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Erastus is named in 3 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 63 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 3 books.

    1. Acts1 verse

      19:22

    2. Romans1 verse

      16:23

    3. 2 Timothy1 verse

      4:20

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

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    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on