Thursday, November 18, 2010
The Alexandrian Tradition Seems to Think that Apollos is Apelles
In Acts xviii 24 and xix. r, K, Copt, have 'Apelles,' while D in xviii. 24 has ' Apollonius.' The reading 'Apelles' seems to be Egyptian, and goes back to Origen, who asks whether Apollos can be the same as the Apelles of Rom. xvi.10
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dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."