Acts 18:24

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* 307 431 453 536 610 cop^bo arm geo (eth) Didymus Ammonius) is an Egyptian preference. ³⁴² On the other hand, despite its meager attestation here and in Acts 19:1, Kilpatrick suggests that VApellh/j is the original reading in Acts and that scribes assimilated it in most witnesses to the name of the VApollw/j of 1 Corinthians. ³⁴³ (See also the comment on 19.1.)

³⁴¹ Cf. Blass-Debrunner-Funk, § 29, 4.

³⁴² So Theodor Zahn, Introduction to the New Testament, I (Edinburgh, 1909), p. 270, note 10; cf. Henry Offermann, “Apollos, Apelles, Apollonios,” Lutheran Church Review, XXXVIII (1919), pp. 145—150.

³⁴³ Journal of Biblical Literature, LXXXIX (1970), p. 77.