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Act 18:24-28. Episode concerning Apollos at Ephesus and in Achaia.
This is one of the most interesting and suggestive incidental narratives in this precious history.
a ... Jew named Apollos - a contraction from Apollonius.
born at Alexandria - the celebrated city of Egypt on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean, called after its founder, Alexander the Great. Nowhere was there such a fusion of Greek, Jewish, and Oriental peculiarities, and an intelligent Jew educated in that city could hardly fail to manifest all these elements in his mental character.
eloquent - turning his Alexandrian culture to high account.
and mighty in the scriptures - his eloquence enabling him to express clearly and enforce skillfully what, as a Jew, he had gathered from a diligent study of the Old Testament Scriptures.
came to Ephesus - on what errand is not known.