# Timothy, The Spiritual Son Of The Apostle Paul, Stoned To Death By The Heathen Idolaters At Ephesus, About A. D. 98.

c. 98 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: TIMOTHY, THE SPIRITUAL SON OF THE APOSTLE PAUL, STONED TO DEATH BY THE HEATHEN IDOLATERS AT EPHESUS, ABOUT A. D. 98.

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Timothy was a native of Lystra in Lycaonia. His
father was a Greek, but his mother and grandmother,
though of Jewish descent, were Christian
believers, the one named Eunice, the other Lois;
by whom he was instructed from his youth in the
holy Scriptures. Acts 16:1; 2 Tim. 1:5.

Timothy was well reported of by the brethren
that were at Lystra and Iconium; wherefore Paul
received him as his companion in the ministry of
the holy Gospel among the Gentiles. Acts 16:2,3.

Paul loved him with a godly love, and called him
his dearly beloved son in the Lord. 2 Tim. 1:2.
He afterwards appointed him bishop or teacher of
the church, and commended to him the flock of
Jesus his Savior, with the admonition, uprightly to
feed and govern the same; to which end he wrote
two special epistles to him.

“O Timothy,” he writes, “keep that which is
committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain
babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so
called.” 1 Tim. 6:20.

Further: “This charge I commit unto thee, son
Timothy, according to the prophecies which went
before on thee . . . through faith and a good
conscience.” 1:18.

In another place: “Thou, therefore, my son, be
strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the
things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses,
the same commit thou to faithful men, who
shall be able to teach others also.” 2 Tim. 2:1,2.

In this ministry Timothy acquitted himself as an
upright evangelical preacher, until it pleased God,
to let him finish his course, not by a common death,
but by martyrdom; so that he, with his spiritual
father Paul, who had steadfastly preceded him, and
especially with his Lord Christ Jesus, who had gone
through the conflict many years before, might
enjoy the unfading crown of honor in the life of
bliss. Thus it happened afterwards, according to
history, that, having been bishop at Ephesus for
fifteen years, he was there stoned to death by the
heathen, whose idolatry he had reproved. This is
stated to have taken place in the reign of Domitian,
or about A. D. 98, though some have fixed it in
the time of Nero. Joh. Gysii Hist. Mart., fol. 14,
col. 4, also, Bybelsch Naembock, letter T. on the
name Timothy, fol. 925, col. 102.





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