SAINT

SAINT one separated from the world and consecrated to God; one holy by profession and by covenant; a believer in Christ (Psalm 16=>3; Romans 1=>7; 8=>27; Phil. 1=>1; Hebrews 6=>10). The “saints” spoken of in Jude 1=>14 are probably not the disciples of Christ, but the “innumerable company of angels” (Hebrews 12=>22; Psalm 68=>17), with reference to Deuteronomy 33=>2. This word is also used of the holy dead (Matthew 27=>52; Revelation 18=>24). It was not used as a distinctive title of the apostles and evangelists and of a “spiritual nobility” till the fourth century. In that sense it is not a scriptural title.