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See also:SAINT See also:BARTHOLOMEW
, one of the twelve apostles, regarding whose See also:early See also:life we know nothing, unless in accordance with a widely-spread belief he is to be identified with See also:Nathanael (q.v.)
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If so, See also:Bartholomew is probably a patronymic, the apostle's full name being Nathanael Bartolmai, i.e. the son of Tolmai
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On the other See also:hand, according to a Syrian tradition, Bartholomew's See also:original name was Jesus, which he dropped owing to its being the name of the See also:Master Himself
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In the synoptic gospels Bartholomew is never mentioned except in the lists of the apostles, where his name always appears after See also: 12, cf. ii . 1, iii . 25 and 29) . If this See also:identification can be made out there would, in the See also:list of apostles as finally constituted, be two men who See also:bore the patronymic Bartholomew . See further Expository Times, ix. pp . 566 if . (1898) . |
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