Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 18]
through the old Galatia and the old Phrygia on west into Asia?
The same conflict exists here over the South Galatian and the
North Galatian theories. Phrygia is apparently distinguished from
the Galatic region here. It is apparently A.D. 52 when Paul set
out on this tour. {In order} (\kathex•s\). In succession as in
11:4, though the names of the cities are not given.
{Stablishing} (\st•riz•n\). As he did in the second tour
(15:41, \epist•riz•n\, compound of this same verb) which see.
18:24 {Apollos} (\Apoll•s\). Genitive \-•\ Attic second
declension. Probably a contraction of \Apollonios\ as D has it
here. {An Alexandrian} (\Alexandreus\). Alexander the Great
founded this city B.C. 332 and placed a colony of Jews there
which flourished greatly, one-third of the population at this
time. There was a great university and library there. The
Jewish-Alexandrian philosophy developed here of which Philo was
the chief exponent who was still living. Apollos was undoubtedly
a man of the schools and a man of parts. {A learned man} (\an•r
logios\). Or eloquent, as the word can mean either a man of words
(like one "wordy," verbose) or a man of ideas, since \logos\ was
used either for reason or speech. Apollos was doubtless both
learned (mighty in the Scriptures) and eloquent, though eloquence
varies greatly in people's ideas. {Mighty in the Scriptures}
(\dunatos •n en tais graphais\). Being powerful (\dunatos\ verbal
of \dunamai\ and same root as \dunamis\, dynamite, dynamo) in the
Scriptures (in the knowledge and the use of the Scriptures), as
should be true of every preacher. There is no excuse for
ignorance of the Scriptures on the part of preachers, the
professed interpreters of the word of God. The last lecture made
to the New Testament English class in Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary by John A. Broadus was on this passage with
a plea for his students to be mighty in the Scriptures. In
Alexandria Clement of Alexandria and Origen taught in the
Christian theological school.
18:25 {Had been instructed in the way of the Lord} (\•n
kat•ch•menos t•n hodon tou kuriou\). Periphrastic past perfect
passive of \kat•che•\, rare in the old Greek and not in the LXX
from \kata\ and \•che•\ (\•ch•\, sound) as in Lu 1:4, to
re-sound, to re-echo, to teach by repeated dinning into the ears
as the Arabs do now, to teach orally by word of mouth (and ear).
Here the accusative of the thing (the word) is retained in the
passive like with \didask•\, to teach (Robertson, _Grammar_, p.
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