Egyptian, The
See Assassins.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Egyptian, The
EGYPTIAN, THE.An unnamed leader of the Assassins or Sicarii for whom Claudius Lysias took St. Paul (Act 21:38). This man is also mentioned by Josephus as a leader defeated by Felix, but not as connected with the Assassins (Ant. XX. viii. 6). The Egyptian escaped, and Lysias thought that he had secured him in St. Pauls person. The discrepancies between Josephus and St. Luke here make mutual borrowing improbable. See Theudas.
A. J. Maclean.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Egyptian, The
e-jipshan ( , ho Aiguptios): Mentioned in Act 21:38, by Claudius Lysias as having before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the ASSASSINS (which see). Reference to this Egyptian and to the suppression of his rebellion by the procurator Felix is likewise found in Josephus (Ant., XX, viii, 6; BJ, II, xiii, 5).