Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 18:24
An eloquent man, mighty in the Scriptures — Of the Old Testament. Every talent may be of use in the kingdom of God, if joined with the knowledge of the Scriptures and fervour of spirit.
An eloquent man, mighty in the Scriptures — Of the Old Testament. Every talent may be of use in the kingdom of God, if joined with the knowledge of the Scriptures and fervour of spirit.
ACTS 18:24 VApollw/j ovno,mati The name VApollw/j is an abbreviated form of VApollw,nioj (read here by D). It may be that the variant reading VApellh/j 341 (a* 30...
Verse Acts 18:24. _A CERTAIN JEW NAMED APOLLOS_] One MS., with the _Coptic_ and _Armenian_, calls him _Apelles_; and the _Codex Bezae, Apollonius_. It is strange that we should find a Jew, not only w...
AND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED APOLLOS - Apollos afterward became a distinguished and successful preacher of the gospel, 1Co 1:12; 1 Corinthians 3:5; 1 Corinthians 4:6;...
CHAPTER 18 _ 1. In Corinth with Aquila and Priscilla. His Testimony and Separation from the Jews (Acts 18:1)._ 2. Encouragement from the Lord in a vision (Acts 18:9). 3. Paul and Gallio (Acts 18:12...
APOLLOS AT EPHESUS. Apollos is well known to us from 1 Cor.; his name was adopted by one of the Corinthian parties as their standard (1 Corinthians 1:12 *). Here we learn more about him, that he was a...
PREACHING IN CORINTH (Acts 18:1-11) Its very position made Corinth (G2882) a key city of Greece. Greece is almost cut in two by the sea. On one side is the Saronic Gulf with its port of Cenchrea and...
A Jew called Apollos, who was a native of Alexandria and a man of culture, arrived in Ephesus. He was able to use the scriptures to great effect. This man had been instructed in The Way of the Lord. H...
APOLLOS. Shortened form of Apollonius. ELOQUENT. Greek. _logios._ Only here. The word may mean either "eloquent", or "learned". The latter idea is expressed in the next phrase. MAN. Greek. _anir._ A...
24–28. VISIT OF APOLLOS TO EPHESUS, AND HIS TEACHING THERE. HE IS MORE FULLY INSTRUCTED BY AQUILA AND PRISCILLA, AND AFTERWARDS PASSING OVER INTO ACHAIA, PREACHES CHRIST THERE WITH GREAT POWER...
ἸΟΥΔΑΙ͂ΟΣ ΔΈ ΤΙΣ ἈΠΟΛΛῺΣ ὈΝΌΜΑΤΙ, _now a certain Jew named Apollos_. The five verses following are a digression to introduce the narrative of the next chapter. The name Apollos is an abbreviation of A...
_AN ACCOUNT OF APOLLO'S SPIRITUAL GROWTH ACTS 18:24-28:_ Apollos came to Ephesus. He was powerful in speech and prudent. This man had a great knowledge of Scriptures, but he knew only the baptism of J...
ΓΈΝΕΙ _dat. sing._ родом, _см._ Acts 18:2. ΛΌΓΙΟΣ (G3052) образованный, красноречивый, мастер ораторского искусства, ученый, начитанный, в качестве почетного титула; выдающийся, замечательный человек...
DISCOURSE: 1793 CHARACTER AND MINISTRY OF APOLLOS Acts 18:24. And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man was instruct...
AT EPHESUS. Acts 18:24 Acts 19:41 a. Apollos teaching the baptism of John is corrected by Priscilla and Aquila. Acts 19:24-28. Acts 19:24
24-26. (24) "_Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born in Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus._ (25) _This man was instructed in the way of the Lord, and, being fer...
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. AND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED APOLLOS - a contraction from Apollonius (in which form...
3 While in Thessalonica he had been supported partly by gifts from Philippi, but now he engaged in tentmaking as a means of. livelihood. During his early days in Corinth his heart was continually occu...
Apollos at Ephesus. 24. Apollos] The name is a contraction of Apollonius. He is mentioned again Acts 19:1; 1 Corinthians 1:12; 1 Corinthians 3:4.;...
THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY, AUG. 52 A.D. TO PENTECOST 56 A.D. (ACTS 18:23 TO ACTS 21:16) 23. Visit to Galatia. St. Paul revisits Antioch in Syria and the Churches of Galatia and Phrygia, founded in the...
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONCLUDED) 1-18. St. Paul at Corinth. Corinth was the capital of the Roman province of Achaia. The ancient town had been entirely destroyed in 146 b.c. by the Roman general...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 18 PAUL GOES TO CORINTH, 18:1-4 V1 After this, Paul left Athens and he went to Corinth. V2 In Corinth, he met a *Jew called Aquila. Aquila had...
AND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED APOLLOS, BORN AT ALEXANDRIA. — The name was probably a contraction of Apollonius or Apollodorus. The facts in the New Testament connected with him show that he occupied a promi...
CHAPTER 14 THE EPHESIAN CHURCH AND ITS FOUNDATION. Acts 18:19; Acts 18:24; Acts 19:1 EPHESUS has been from very ancient times a distinguished city. It was famous in the religious history of Asia Min...
Ἀλεξ., _cf._ Acts 6:9, Schürer, _Jewish People_, div. ii., vol. ii., p. 226, E.T. At Alexandria the LXX was written and Philo lived; here too was the magnificent mosque of which it was said that he wh...
NEW HELPERS IN THE GOSPEL Acts 18:18 In unimportant matters Paul was still amenable to Hebrew customs and rites, Acts 18:18. Probably he desired to conciliate his Judaizing opponents so far as he cou...
Leaving Athens, the center of the intellectual life of Greece, Paul came to Corinth, its commercial center. There he joined Aquila, and gave himself to the work of tent-making, while reasoning on the...
Apollos At Ephesus, an Alexandrian Jew named Apollos, who was an eloquent speaker, began to preach about Jesus. Luke assured Theophilus that Apollos was mighty in the scriptures and very accurate in...
(8) And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, [and] (n) mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. (8) Apollos, a godly and learned man, does not refuse to profit in the s...
Apollo...one mighty in the Scripture. Literally, powerful in the Scripture, yet knew no baptism, but that of John. (Witham) --- When we consider the great harvest, and few labourers, and the small tim...
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus. (25) This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spiri...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
_THE CHARACTER OF APOLLOS_ ‘A certain Jew named Apollos.’ Acts 18:24 That Apollos should have left such a mark on the history of the Church, and especially the Church at Corinth, is a striking proo...
− 24._A certain Jew. _This ought for good causes to be ascribed to the providence of God, in that whilst Paul is enforced to depart from Ephesus, Apollos cometh in his place to supply his absence. And...
At Thessalonica Paul twice received succour from Philippi; at Corinth, where money and commerce abounded, he does not take it, but quietly works with two of his countrymen of the same trade as himself...
AND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED APOLLOS,.... Who by some is thought to be the same with Apelles, Romans 16:10, his name is Greek, though he was a Jew, not only by religion, but by birth, being of a Jewish ext...
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, _and_ mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. Ver. 24. _An eloquent man_] _Et eruditum sonat et prudentem, _ saith Erasmus. It...
_And a certain Jew_, &c. While Paul was thus visiting the churches of Galatia and Phrygia, there came to Ephesus _a Jew, named Apollos_ A native of Alexandria in Egypt; _an eloquent man, and mighty in...
ALEXANDRIA; a city in the north part of Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great, about three hundred years before Christ....
The beginning of the third missionary journey:...
and a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus....
Paul leaves Athens and is directed to Corinth, a city as loose and licentious as Athens, but where the gospel nevertheless found a response. There he found a Jew named Aquila who had come with his wif...
NOW A CERTAIN JEW NAMED APOLLOS, BORN AT ALEXANDRIA, AN ELOQUENT MAN _AND_ MIGHTY IN THE SCRIPTURES, CAME TO EPHESUS. 1. We are now introduced to Apollos. 1. He was born in Alexandria, in northern E...
24-28 Apollos taught in the gospel of Christ, as far as John's ministry would carry him, and no further. We cannot but think he had heard of Christ's death and resurrection, but he was not informed a...
APOLLOS; who is thought also to be called Apelles, ROMANS 16:10. BORN AT ALEXANDRIA; his parents having lived there. AN ELOQUENT MAN; a rational, prudent, and learned man. Though the kingdom of God is...
24-26. (24) "_ Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born in Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus._ (25) _This man was instructed in the way of the Lord, and, being fe...
Acts 18:24 Now G1161 certain G5100 Jew G2453 named G3686 Apollos G625 born G1085 Alexandria G221 eloquent G3052 man...
THE MINISTRY OF APOLLOS IN EPHESUS. HE IS INSTRUCTED IN THE WAY OF THE LORD (18:24-26). Meanwhile there arrived in the west of Asia Minor, in Ephesus, which Paul had visited but had not yet really eva...
‘Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus, and he was mighty in the scriptures.' Apollos was an Alexandrian from Egypt, which probably means that he i...
_An Episode relating the Spread of the Teaching of John the Baptist and his School, with a short Account of one famous Disciple of the Baptist, A polios of Alexandria, Acts 18:24 to Acts 19:7_. Acts 1...
APOLLOS (Απολλως). Genitive -ω Attic second declension. Probably a contraction of Απολλονιος as D has it here.AN ALEXANDRIAN (Αλεξανδρευς). Alexander the Great founded this city B.C. 332 and place...
Paul had been preaching the gospel at Athens to the most famous men of that city gathered at Areopagus. Acts 18:1. _After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth:_ Another most i...
CONTENTS: Paul at Corinth. The careless Gallio. Paul takes a Jewish vow. Apollos at Ephesus. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Paul, Aquila, Priscilla, Claudius, Silas, Timothy, Justus, Crispus, Gallio, Sosthenes,...
Acts 18:2. _Claudius had commanded all jews to depart from Rome._ Suetonius says that this was on account of Chrestus, [Christ] who continually excited disturbances. This edict was issued in the ninth...
A CERTAIN JEW NAMED APOLLOS. Alexandria was the cultural center of the Greek-speaking Jews. The Septuagint [Greek translation of the Old Testament] was written there; and the most magnificent synagogu...
And after he had spent some time [at Antioch] he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia._--_ PAUL’S THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY 1. Nothing was said as to who went with him from C...
_And he went through Syria and Cilicia confirming the churches._ PAUL AS A MODEL FOR ALL GOSPEL MINISTERS He recognises the importance of-- I. Establishing new converts in the faith. In this visit...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:24 ALEXANDRIA was an intellectual center in Egypt with a world-famous library. ⇐...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:23. THE REGION OF GALATIA AND PHRYGIA.—See on Acts 16:6. Acts 18:24. A CERTAIN JEW NAMED APOLLOS—a diminutive or pet name for Apollomos, which occurs in Codex D. (Ramsay)....
EXPOSITION ACTS 18:1 _He _for _Paul, _A.V. and T.R. AFTER THESE THINGS, etc. No hint is given by St. Luke as to the length of Paul's sojourn at Athens. But as the double journey of the Beroeans, who...
Let's turn now to the eighteenth chapter of Acts as we continue our study through the Bible. At the end of the study last week, the end of chapter seventeen, we found Paul speaking to the Epicurean an...
1 Corinthians 1:12; 1 Corinthians 16:12; 1 Corinthians 2:1; 1 Corinthians 2:2;...
Eloquent [λ ο γ ι ο ς]. Only here in New Testament. The word is used in Greek literature in several senses. As logov means either reason or speech, so this derivative may signify either one who has th...
The first thing here observable, is, How the wisdom of God provided for the several churches, that in the absence of one powerful preacher they were supplied with another; when the providence of God c...