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The Name Christian

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 7, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 44, No. 4.

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The Name Christian

The word Christian is found but three times in all the Scriptures. The places where it occurs are Acts 11:26; Acts 26:28; and 1 Peter 4:15. These read as follows: “And the disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.” “Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.” “Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this behalf.”
The chronology of some of the events recorded in the Acts is not entirely certain, but it seems pretty clear that the followers of our Lord were not called Christians till ten or twelve years after our Saviour’s ascension to Heaven.