410 The NEW and COMPLETE LIFE of our BLESSED LORD APOLLOS, a T 1H E ancient writers give' no account either of the birth or family of Apollos ; all they mention is, that he was a Jew of Alexandria, and came to Ephe- fus during St. Paul's abfence, who was gone to Jerufualem, to vifit the other apodles, and the church in that city. This eminent perlon was diftinguifhed for his eloquence, and knowledge of the Scriptures. He was indrufed in the way of the Lord ; and as he fpoke with zeal and fervour, taught diligently the things relating to the kingdom of heaven, though he knew only the baptifm of John. Apollos was no fooner come to Ephefus, JEWISH CONVERT. than hebegan to fpeak boldly in the fyna- gogue, and to {hew that Jesus was the CtiatsT. Aquila and Prifcilla, having heard him, took him home with them, in- druFfed him more fully in the ways ofthe Almighty, and baptized him. He was very ufeful at Corinth, in convincing the Jews out of the Scriptures, and demon- ftrating to them that Jesus was the CHRIST. Thus he watered what Paul had planted in that city. It is allowed by all, that he was an a&ive and powerful preacher of the gofpel; and that great numberswere, byhis preach- ing,rendered obedient to.thefaith ofCHRIST. T I T U S, a GENTILE CONVERT. THIS eminent perfon was a Heathen by religion and birth, but converted by St. Paul, who calls him his fon. Titus was fent by St. Paul to Corinth, upon oc- cafion offome difputes which then divided the church.- He was very well received by the Corinthians, and very much latis- fied with their ready compliance ; but would receive nothing from them, imi- tating thereby the difintereflednefs of his Matter, who fought not theirs, but them. He went from Corinth to- St. Paul into Macedonia, and gave him an account of the date ofthe Corinthian church. A little while after, the apodle defired him to re- turn again to Corinth, to fet things in order again!" his coming. Titus readily under- took this journey, and departed imme- diately, carrying with him St. Paul's fecond letter to the Corinthians. Titus was made bifhop of the ill of Crete, about the fixty-third year ofCaatsT, when St. Paul was obliged to quit this ifland, in order to take care of the other churches. The following year he wrote to him to defire, that as loon as he should 2 have rent Tychicus or Artemas to him for fupplyinghis place in Crete, Titus would come to hint to Nicopolis in Macedonia, or to Nicopolis in Epirus upon the gulf of Ambracia,where the apòílle intended topars his winter. The fubjeétof this epiflle is to reprefent to Titus what are the qualities that a bifhop fhould be endued with. St. Paul's epifite to Titus has always been acknowledged by the church. The Marcionites did not receive it, nor did the Bafilidians, and fome other Heretics ; but Tatian, the head of the Encratites, re- ceived it, and preferred it before all the red. It is not certainly known by whom it was fent, nor from what place it was written. It appears, that Titus was deputed to preach the gofpel in Dalmatia ; and he was dill there in the year fixty-five, when the apodl'e wrote his fecond epidle to Ti- mothy. He died at the age of ninety-four and was buried in Crete. His fedìval is kept by the Greeks on the 25th of Auguft, and on the 4th of January by the Latin church. TIMOTHY,.
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