APOLLOS, an Alexandrian Jew, came to Ephesus, where he expounded in the synagogue the Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament. He was versed in the Scriptures and had been in touch with the movement inaugurated by John the Baptist. Priscilla and Aquila convinced him that the predictions had been fulfilled in Jesus (Acts xviii.). Perhaps, like the followers of John in xix. 1-5, he then received Christian baptism. This interpreta tion assumes that the writer of Acts, who says that Apollos taught "the things concerning Jesus," means "the things concerning the Christ." Strictly interpreted the phrase seems to imply that Apollos knew the teaching of Jesus, with which he may have been in contact in Galilee, but not its consummation in the Resurrec tion faith of the early Church. Encouraged by the Christians of Ephesus he went to Corinth, where he proclaimed with vigour and success that the Messiah was Jesus. One of three (or four) parties which developed in the Corinthian Church claimed him as its founder (I. Cor. i. 10-12) . Paul recognized his work generously. Apollos had watered his plant (iii. 6). It is a natural deduction from the origin of Apollos and his distinctive teaching that he had affinities with the Alexandrian school of Judaism represented by Philo. Some scholars have supposed that he wrote the anonymous Epistle to the Hebrews, which has similar affinities, but this is a guess and improbable. From I. Cor. xvi. 12 we learn that he returned to Ephesus and was there with Paul. (W. K. L. C.)