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Reference: Rufus

American

Son of Simon the Cyrenian who was constrained to carry the cross on which the Saviour was to be crucified, Mr 15:21. If he is the same person whom Paul salutes in Ro 16:13, as is probable, we may see in this instance the divine blessing abiding on the household of one who befriended Christ and bore his cross.

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Easton

red, the son of Simon the Cyrenian (Mr 15:21), whom the Roman soldiers compelled to carry the cross on which our Lord was crucified. Probably it is the same person who is again mentioned in Ro 16:13 as a disciple at Rome, whose mother also was a Christian held in esteem by the apostle. Mark mentions him along with his brother Alexander as persons well known to his readers (Mr 15:21).

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Fausets

Son of Simon the Cyrenian who bore Christ's cross. Mark (Mr 15:21) wrote at Rome (Clemens Alex.). Now if "Rufus (whom Paul salutes as at Rome) chosen in the Lord" (Ro 16:13) be the same Rufus as Mark mentions in writing a Gospel for the Romans, the undesigned coincidence will account for what otherwise would be gratuitous information to his readers, that Simon was "father of Rufus," which the other evangelists omit, and which Mark himself seemingly turns to no advantage.

Rufus according to Paul was a disciple of note at Rome; how natural then to designate Simon, who was unknown, to the Romans by his fatherhood to one whom they well knew, Rufus! Mark gives the Romans whom he addresses a reference for the truth of the narrative of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection to one who was accessible to them all, and who could attest the facts on the authority of his own father, the reluctant bearer of the Lord's cross (Lu 23:26). The "compelling" of him to bear the cross issued in his voluntarily taking up his own cross to follow Jesus; then through Simon followed his wife's conversion, and that of Rufus whose mother by nature she was, as she was Paul's mother by kindnesses bestowed for Christ's sake. "Salute Rufus ... and his mother and mine."

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Hastings

1. The brother of Alexander and son of Simon of Cyrene (Mr 15:21 only). 2. A Christian at Rome greeted by St. Paul (Ro 16:13) as 'the chosen in the Lord,' together with 'his mother and mine.' It has been conjectured that these two are the same person, that Simon's widow (?) had emigrated to Rome with her two sons, where they became people of eminence in the Church, and that this is the reason why the brothers are mentioned by St. Mark, who probably wrote in Rome.

A. J. Maclean.

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Morish

Ru'fus

1. Son of Simon, the Cyrenian, who was compelled to bear the Lord's cross. Mr 15:21.

2. A believer in Rome to whom Paul sent a salutation. Ro 16:13. Possibly the same as No. 1

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Smith

Ru'fus

(red) is mentioned in

Mr 15:21

as a son of Simon the Cyrenian.

Lu 23:26

(A.D. 29.) Again, in

Ro 16:13

the apostle Paul salutes a Rufus whom he designates as "elect in the Lord." This Rufus was probably identical with the one to whom Mark refers.

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