Tyrannus
But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake
evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them,
and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of
one Tyrannus....
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ti-ran'-us (Turannos): When the Jews of Ephesus opposed
Paul's teaching in the synagogue, he withdrew, and,
separating his followers, reasoned daily in the school of
Tyrannus. "This continued for the space of two years" (Acts
19:9,10). D Syriac (Western text) adds after Tyrannus (Acts
19:9), "from the 5th hour unto the 10th." Schole is the
le...
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-(An Ephesian man)
-Paul taught in the school of, for two years
Ac 19:9,10...
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(sovereign), the name of a man in whose school or place of
audience Paul taught the gospel for two years, during his
sojourn at Ephesus. See Ac 19:9 (A.D. 52,53.) The presumption
is that Tyrannus himself was a Greek, and a public teacher of
philosophy or rhetoric....
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prince, a Greek rhetorician, in whose "school" at Ephesus Paul
disputed daily for the space of two years with those
who came to
him (Acts 19:9). Some have supposed that he was a Jew,
and that
his "school" was a private synagogue....
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Acts 19:9. In whose school at Ephesus Paul discussed
(dielegeto, "reasoned"; same Greek, Acts 17:2) gospel truths
with disciples and inquirers (having withdrawn from cavilers)
daily for two years. A private synagogue (called beet midrash
by the Jews), or rather the hall of a Gentile sophist or
lecturer on rhetoric and philosophy; his name is G...
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