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I just got off my duff and looked it up. Here's the passage (John 20:24):
But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
Well, how do you like that! Didymus is the name of Doubting Thomas! Doubting Didymus Thomas or Didymus Doubting Thomas, take your pick!
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Dear Wordwind: Here is a URL about your boy. It confuses me, see what you make of it. http://members.aol.com/didymus5/
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But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
Well, my version reads almost the same:
But Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came.
Does this mean that Thomas = Didymus but Didymus = Twin ?
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Dear wwh and Angel,
In Bill's link, there's the term "Twin" again--but this is the first time I've heard of his forbidden writings--or of the three wicked disciples. The Mani???
But it appears that the name Didymus means "twin"--at least that--and this Thomas Didymus (the twin) has been attributed with some writings. I wonder where his writings are taught???
The plot thickens...
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First there's Thomas the Tank Engine, now Thomas the Twin. Didymus does mean "The Twin". I used to see the name written as "Thomas Adidymus", but perhaps it was put that way just because of the euphony.
There is some doubt over why he was called the twin, and who the twin in the frame actually was. Some said it was Jesus, that they were like brothers. Others say that he was Matthew's twin brother. I guess record-keeping and organisation wasn't one of the main preoccupations of the leaders of the early Christian church. Most of them were too busy dodging Nero's pogrom.
Myself I don't believe any of them actually existed and that they are rather allegorical figures, so I'm not taking sides!
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neither of us knows how to pronounce the name.
Your guess is correct (IL'dIU).
DID-ih-muss.
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And guess who the twins are that are capped with epididymides.
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The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Thanks, Faldage. I'll pass on your authority to my dad.
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