Apostle (Christian) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The term apostle is derived from Classical Greek (pron.: "apostolos"), meaning one who is sent away, from ("stello," to send) + ("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," ("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: (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: