- CLAUDA a small island off the southwest coast of Crete, passed by Paul
on his voyage to Rome (Acts 27:16). It is about 7 miles long and 3 broad.
It is now called Gozzo (R.V., “Cauda”). - CLAUDIA a female Christian mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:21. It is a
conjecture having some probability that she was a British maiden, the
daughter of king Cogidunus, who was an ally of Rome, and assumed the
name of the emperor, his patron, Tiberius Claudius, and that she was the
wife of Pudens. - CLAUDIUS lame. (1.) The fourth Roman emperor. He succeeded Caligula
(A.D. 41). Though in general he treated the Jews, especially those in Asia
and Egypt, with great indulgence, yet about the middle of his reign (A.D.
- he banished them all from Rome (Acts 18:2). In this edict the
Christians were included, as being, as was supposed, a sect of Jews. The
Jews, however soon again returned to Rome.
During the reign of this emperor, several persecutions of the Christians by
the Jews took place in the dominions of Herod Agrippa, in one of which
the apostle James was “killed” (12:2). He died A.D. 54.
(2.) Claudius Lysias, a Greek who, having obtained by purchase the
privilege of Roman citizenship, took the name of Claudius (Acts 21:31-40;
22:28; 23:26).