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APOLLOS ('AsroXXc i; contracted from See also:Apollonius)  , an Alexandrine See also:Jew who after See also:Paul's first visit to See also:Corinth worked there in a similar way (1 See also:Cor. iii . 6) . He was with Paul at a later date in See also:Ephesus (1 Cor. xvi . 12) . In r Cor . 10-12 we read of four parties in the Corinthian See also:church, of which two attached themselves to Paul and See also:Apollos respectively, using their names, though the " See also:division " can hardly have been due to conflicting doctrines . (See PAUL.) From Acts xviii . 24-28 we learn that he spoke and taught with See also:power and success . He may have captivated his hearers by teaching See also:wisdom," as P . W . Schmiedel suggests, in the allegorical See also:style of See also:Philo, and he wds evidently a See also:man of unusual magnetic force . There seems to be some See also:contradiction between Acts xviii .

25 a b and Acts xviii . 25 C, 26 b c; and it has been suggested that these latter passages are subsequent accretions . Since Apollos was a See also:

Christian and "taught exactly," he could hardly have been acquainted only with See also:John's See also:baptism or have required to be taught See also:Christianity more thoroughly by See also:Aquila and Priscilla . See also:Martin See also:Luther regarded Apollos as the author of the See also:Epistle to the See also:Hebrews, and many scholars since have shared his view . See also:Jerome says that Apollos was so dissatisfied with the division at Corinth, that he retired into See also:Crete with Zenas, a See also:doctor of the See also:law; and that the See also:schism having been healed by Paul's See also:letter to the See also:Corinthians, Apollos returned to the See also:city, and became its See also:bishop . Less probable traditions assign to him the bishopric of Duras, or of See also:Iconium in See also:Phrygia, or of Caesarea . See the articles in the See also:Encyclopaedia Biblica; See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie; The Jewish Encyclopaedia; See also:Hastings' See also:Dictionary of the See also:Bible; and cf . Weizsdcker, Das apostolische Zeitalter; A . C . See also:McGiffert, See also:History of Christianity in the Apostolic See also:Age .

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