Aristobulus
Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of
Aristobulus' [household]....
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Judah (Yehudah, Heb. יהודה) Aristobulus I (reigned 104-103
BC) was a king of the Hebrew Hasmonean Dynasty, and the
eldest of the five sons of King John Hyrcanus. He was the
first of the Hasmonean rulers to call himself "king."
According to the Hebrew Scriptures, only descendants of
Judah, or, more specifically, the House of David, were
qualif...
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ar-is-to-bu'-lus (Aristoboulos, "best counselor"):
(1) Son of the Maccabean, John Hyrcanus, who assumed the
power and also the title of king after his father's death
(105 BC) and associated with him, as co-regent, his brother
Antigonus (Ant., XIII, xi), though by the will of his father
the government was entrusted to his mother. Three other
br...
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(the best counsellor), a resident at Rome, some of whose
household are greeted in Ro 16:10 Tradition makes him one of
the 70 disciples and reports that he preached the gospel in
Britain....
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a Roman mentioned in Paul's Epistle to the Romans (16:10),
whose
"household" is saluated....
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Aristobulus, whose "household" is "saluted" (Romans 16:10).
Himself not being greeted, it is likely either he was not a
Christian or was absent from Rome. The family would hardly be
called after him, if he were dead....
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