Ac 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.

      24, 25. 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 skilfully 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.

JFB.