Acts 18:24 — 19:41 - Corps Notes - November 30, 1976
Acts 18:24 — 19:41 November 30, 1976 Acts 18:24 “Jew” - It’s sort of interesting, in this book I was telling you about, he documents it like I did; that the word “Jew” never appeared in any language in English, or in any of it until 1775. In 1611 King James was originally done. So they must have gotten this word “Jew” in here sometime later. It is “Judean” in the text, which it is all over, you know. And the reason it’s that, is because they were Judean by religion. And that, of course, was later called Judaism. I forget who the first one was that called it Judaism. He has it documented in here, and I forget it. Then it was called Rabbinism. That’s the stuff that the Jews are taught today. “Apollos” - This man’s name was Apollos, and Apollos is just a shortened word for Apollonius. It was like a nickname. You have a nickname, like Steven has a nickname called “Steve”, Apollos is like a nickname. Apollonius is his real name, born in Alexandria, in Egypt, which was the great Greek center of learning, and a lot of the dispersion Jews, as they are referred to, had gone to Alexandria and other places. When the Septuagint translation was made, the solidly Judean people who believed in the Mosaic laws refused to read it, as a matter of fact, it was very, very bad if anybody did read it. “an eloquent man” - It would be much better translated had they said, “an eloquent and learned man,” because this word eloquent has both, the knowledge and the fluency of the presentation of the knowledge, in it. He was not only eloquent; he was a learned and eloquent man. “and mighty in the scriptures” - In Acts 7:22, it says this about Moses. This is the same word that’s used here regarding mighty in the scriptures, mighty in the Word. “Ephesus” - Ephesus was the great city of learning, very strong in Estrangelo Aramaic. One of the greatest libraries of the world will be found in Ephesus when they get the archaeological work done. Acts 18:25 “this man” - this one “instructed” - catechized
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and they did. These, of course, were the very beautifully done linen aprons that were used in saddle making, that they wore. Acts 19:13 “vagabond” - roving – they’d go from one city to another to do their feats “exorcists” - operating or exercising devil spirits “We” – I This is a formula: “I adjure you by Moses,” or “I adjure you by Abraham.” They used a name. And this is sort of neat, because here are men, operated by devil spirits, who are going to cast out devil spirits. It’s a real counterfeit operation. This is where a bigger devil spirit casts out a little devil spirit. These guys, who were roving exorcists, went around doing their thing. “I adjure you” – in other words, “I command you to come out” Now look who these fellows were who did this: Acts 19:14 Now here has to be something wrong here because the Old Testament law said that if he was a religious leader he was supposed to