Patristic A.D. 444
“But if we may learn the interpretation of the Apostles’ names, know that Peter means, “loosening or knowing;” Andrew, “glorious power,” or “answering;” but James, “apostle of grief;” John, “the grace of the Lord;” Matthew, “given;” Philip, “large mouth,” or the “orifice of a torch;” Bartholomew, “the son of him who lets down water;” Thomas, “deep or twin;” James the son of Alphæus, “supplanter of the step of life;” Judas, “confession;” Simon, “obedience.””
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 6:12-16
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗