{"id":20646,"count":1,"description":"Saint Silas or Saint Silvanus (Greek: \u03a3\u03af\u03bb\u03b1\u03c2 \/ \u03a3\u03b9\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03b1\u03bd\u03cc\u03c2; fl. 1st century AD) was a leading member of the Early Christian community, who later accompanied Paul in some of his missionary journeys.\nThere is some disagreement over the proper form of his name: he is consistently called \"Silas\" in Acts, but the Latin Silvanus, which means \"of the forest,\" is always used by Paul and in the First Epistle of Peter; it may be that \"Silvanus\" is the Romanized version of the original \"Silas,\" or that \"Silas\" is the Greek nickname for \"Silvanus.\" Fitzmyer points out that Silas is the Greek version of the Aramaic \"Seila,\" a version of the Hebrew \"Saul,\" which is attested in Palmyrene inscriptions. The name Latin \"Silvanus\" may be derived from pre-Roman Italian languages (see, e.g., the character \"Asilas,\" an Etruscan leader and warrior-prophet who plays a prominent role in assisting Aeneas in Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid).\nHe is celebrated in the Calendar of Saints of the Evangelical Lutheran...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/silas\/","name":"Silas","slug":"silas","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/20646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=20646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}