{"id":1158,"date":"2015-10-16T20:40:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T00:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2015-10-03T21:42:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T01:42:21","slug":"saturday-october-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, October 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUKE 6 <sup>12\u00a0<\/sup>Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. <sup>13\u00a0<\/sup>And when it was day, He called His disciples to <em>Himself;<\/em> and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles: <sup>14\u00a0<\/sup>Simon, whom He also named Peter, and Andrew his brother; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew; <sup>15\u00a0<\/sup>Matthew and Thomas; James the <em>son<\/em> of Alphaeus, and Simon called the Zealot; <sup>16\u00a0<\/sup>Judas <em>the son<\/em> of James, and Judas Iscariot who also became a traitor.<\/p>\n<p>But if we may learn the interpretation of the Apostles\u2019 names, know that Peter means, \u201cloosening or knowing;\u201d Andrew, \u201cglorious power,\u201d or \u201canswering;\u201d but James, \u201capostle of grief;\u201d John, \u201cthe grace of the Lord;\u201d Matthew, \u201cgiven;\u201d Philip, \u201clarge mouth,\u201d or the \u201corifice of a torch;\u201d Bartholomew, \u201cthe son of him who lets down water;\u201d Thomas, \u201cdeep or twin;\u201d James the son of Alph\u00e6us, \u201csupplanter of the step of life;\u201d Judas, \u201cconfession;\u201d Simon, \u201cobedience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(St Cyril)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUKE 6 12\u00a0Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. 13\u00a0And when it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-daily-devotional","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}