- verses
- 1
- first named
- Romans 16:15
- last named
- Romans 16:15
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Nereus?
Nereus is mentioned briefly in Rom.16.15 as one of the individuals to whom the Apostle Paul sends greetings in his letter to the church in Rome. Paul's greeting to Nereus is part of a larger list of personal greetings to various members of the Roman Christian community.
The fact that Nereus is mentioned by name suggests that he was a prominent or well-known member of the church in Rome. It is possible that Paul had met Nereus personally or had heard of his faith and dedication to Christ through others.
In the context of Romans 16, Paul is concluding his letter by extending personal greetings and commendations to various individuals and groups within the Roman church. These greetings serve to strengthen the bonds of fellowship and unity among the believers and to acknowledge the important roles played by different members of the community.
Apart from this single mention in Rom.16.15, no further information is provided about Nereus in the New Testament. Some early Christian traditions and apocryphal writings associate Nereus with the martyrdom of Domitilla, a Roman noblewoman, but these accounts are not considered historically reliable.
The inclusion of Nereus in Paul's greetings highlights the diversity and interconnectedness of the early Christian community in Rome. It also demonstrates Paul's personal concern for and appreciation of the individuals who made up the church, even though he had not yet visited Rome in person at the time of writing the epistle.
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.
Stands in the same events as
- Asyncritus1 event
- Hermas1 event
- Hermes1 event
- Julia1 event
- Olympas1 event
- Patrobas1 event
- Philologus1 event
- Phlegon1 event
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Nereus 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.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Romans (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
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.
Sources