Bible Person
Meaning: divinely touched · Male · 1 cross reference
Dionysius the Areopagite is one of the named Athenians who believe after hearing Paul. He belongs to the small but notable group of converts emerging from the Areopagus encounter. First appears in Acts 17:34.1
AI summary: Dionysius matters because his single cross reference shows that the gospel reached into Athens' intellectual and civic elite, not only its margins. His name gives concrete form to the fruit of Paul's philosophically engaged witness. Taken together, the material presents Dionysius as a distinguished Athenian convert in Acts.1
Central Figure
Dionysius
Meaning: divinely touched
The Areopagite, one of Paul’s converts at Athens (Acts 17:34).
The Areopagite, one of Paul’s converts at Athens (Acts 17:34). 3
| Book | Cross-References |
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| Acts |
Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.