Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Fiction
The New Testament references to Apollos may be counted on one hand. We
hear of him first in the _Acts_, date about 54 A.D., “And a certain Jew
named Apollos born at Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the
scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man was instructed in the way of the
Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spoke and taught diligently
the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. And he began
to speak boldly in the synagogue; whom when Aquila and Priscilla had
heard, they took him unto them and expounded unto him the way of God
more perfectly. And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the
brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him; who, when he was
come, helped them much which had believed through grace: for he mightily
convinced the Jews and that publicly, shewing by the scriptures that
Jesus was Christ. And it came to pass that while Apollos was at Corinth,
Paul, having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus.” These
words are written by Luke.
We next find Paul writing to the Corinthians from Philippi about 59
A.D., “Every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of
Cephas; and I of Christ. . . . For while one saith, I am of Paul and
another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who
is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed? . . . I have planted,
Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. . . . Therefore let no man
glory in men . . . whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas . . . and these
things . . . I have transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes.
. . . As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come
unto you with the brethren; but his will was not to come at this time;
but he will come when he shall have convenient time.” Then in a letter
to Titus, now Bishop of Crete, about 65 A.D., Paul begs Titus to bring
“Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing
be wanting unto them.” Titus, it should be added, was a Greek.
This is practically all that is said of Apollos, Paul’s coworker, in the
_New Testament_, except that in one of the early Luke manuscripts on the
_Acts_, Apollos is given as Apollonius; see Turner’s _Early Church
History_.
In Ignatius’ letter to the Magnesians, there is a reference to
Apollonius as a presbyter in the Asiatic Greek Church.
Many authorities, among them Luther, considered that this Apollos wrote
the _Hebrews_.
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