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Apostle (Christian)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The term apostle is derived from Classical Greek ?p?st???? (pron.:apóstolos), meaning one who is sent away, from st???? (stello, to send) + ap? (apo, away from). The literal meaning in English is therefore an emissary, from the Latin mitto (to send) + ex (away from). The purpose of such sending away (not strictly forth which implies forward, p?? (pro in Greek), and pro in Latin) is to convey messages. Thus a messenger is a common alternative translation, although the true messenger is the angel, from Greek: ???e??? (messenger). In the case of the Christian apostles, the message they were sent away to convey was very broadly the message of the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and they were sent away by Jesus to the Jews in Matthew 10:5, as the following quote from verses 1 to 7 reveals:
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