Person
Damaris
Athenian believer
Athenian woman named in Acts 17 among those who believed after Paul's speech at the Areopagus about the unknown God.
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Damaris is mentioned in Acts 17 as a woman in who became a believer after hearing 's address at the Areopagus. Paul had been invited to speak there after Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him in the agora debating about and . His speech proclaimed an unknown God as the creator of the world who commands all people to repent in light of a coming judgment certified by the resurrection of a man he has appointed. records that while most in the audience mocked or deferred, some believed — and names Damaris alongside the Areopagite as two of those who joined Paul and came to faith that day.
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