We know nothing of this disciple except that his name appears as one of the Seven in Acts 6:5. The list, like that of the first apostles (Acts 1:13), may have been kept among the archives of the church at Jerusalem, to which St. Luke had access, or St. Luke may himself have procured it at Antioch.
W. A. Spooner.
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