Category:Erastus

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary.

Erastus - Beloved. (1.) The "chamberlain" of the city of Corinth (Romans 16:23), and one of Paul's disciples. As treasurer of such a city he was a public officer of great dignity, and his conversion to the Gospel was accordingly a proof of the wonderful success of the apostle's labors. (2.) A companion of Paul at Ephesus, who was sent by him along with Timothy into Macedonia (Acts 19:22). Corinth was his usual place of abode (2 Timothy 4:20); but probably he may have been the same as the preceding.