The name Rufus is a fairly common word that means "red". The first group, remarkably, appears to have been the largest, but they were out-gunned (or out-sworded) by the second group, and that's why the second group finally won, and will always win as long as the first group doesn't devise ways to disarm them before they can become violent. They believed that only a rigid dictatorship could create order out of human chaos, and were convinced that peace could only exist when opponents of their regime were killed and the rest made compliant slaves.
#RUFUS NAME MEANING CODE#
The New Testament is riddled with a kind of literary code that allowed Christians to transmit sensitive data hidden in plain sight ( Ephesians 5:19, Colossians 3:16). And why were Rufus and his mother in Rome and not in Cyrene (or Jerusalem)? And finally, why did Paul add a long list of howdies to folks all over the eastern Roman empire to a letter he was sending west to Rome? Why indeed would Paul have sent such an incriminating list of the personal names of illegal Christians quite literally into the lion's den? However: the name Rufus was a very common Roman cognomen (a formal nickname) and it wouldn't have been too difficult to find two of them between Jerusalem and Rome, also since there are roughly 25 years between the crucifixion and Paul's letter to the Romans.
The Rufus name falls in the category of male names.