Hermas
Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the
brethren which are with them....
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hur'-mas (Hermas): An abbreviated form of several names, e.g.
Hermagoras, Hermeros, Hermodorus, Hermogenes, etc.; the name
of a Roman Christian to whom Paul sent greetings (Rom 16:14).
Origen and some later writers have identified him with the
author of The Pastor of Hermas, but without sufficient reason.
According to the Canon of Muratori, th...
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(Mercury), the name of a Christian resident at Rome to whom
St. Paul sends greetings in his Epistle to the Romans. Ro
16:14 (A.D. 55.) Irenaeus, Tertullian and Origen agree in
attributing to him the work called The shepherd. It was never
received into the canon, but yet was generally cited with
respect only second to that which was paid to the...
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Mercury, a Roman Christian to whom Paul sends greetings (Rom.
16: 14). Some suppose him to have been the author of
the
celebrated religious romance called The Shepherd, but
it is very
probable that that work is the production of a later
generation....
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One at Rome to whom Paul sends greeting (Romans 16:14). A
Greek name. Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Origen attribute to him
"The Shepherd," supposed by some to have been written in the
episcopacy of Clement I; others deny Hermas of Romans 16 to be
the author. Its author appears from internal evidence to have
been married and to have had children, ...
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