Timaeus in the Bible — Hidden Meaning & Symbolism

Timaeus, ti-mæ'-us (Gk. fr. Heb.)-- contaminated; defiled; unclean; impure; polluted; infamous; profaned. Father of Bartimæus, a blind beggar who was healed by Jesus (Mark 10:46). Meta. A phase of consciousness that is contaminated with error (defiled, polluted, infamous, profaned), which is the result of the race habit of attributing honor and precedence to old-established religious beliefs and customs to the exclusion of present spiritual inspiration (a Jewish man, the father of the blind beggar, Bartimæus; see BARTIMÆUS).