Apelles
Apelles
(, a Greek name possibly contracted from Apollodorus, and apparently common among Jews of the Dispersion [cf. Hor. Sat. i. 5. 100: credat Iudaeus Apella, and Gows suggestion, ad loc., that, as modern Jews take a Gentile name which closely resembles their Hebrew name, so in ancient times a Jew called Abel might choose the name Apelles]).-Apelles, saluted by St. Paul in Rom 16:10, is called the approved in Christ ( ). The phrase may indicate that he had been specially tested and tried by affliction or persecution, or that he was a Christian who had gained the approbation of the Church, sufficiently perhaps to be called to the ministry (cf. 1Ti 3:10). Nothing is known of Apelles beyond this reference
Assuming the Roman destination of these salutations, he was probably a Jewish convert residing in Rome as a member of the Imperial household. As the salutation which follows is that to the household of Aristobulus, it has been suggested that Apelles Christian activity may have lain in that direction. If Aristobulus (q.v. [Note: quod vide, which see.] ) was the grandson of Herod, Apelles would no doubt find in his household many members of his own race. The name Apelles is known to have belonged to the Imperial household. It was borne by a famous tragic actor in the time of the Emperor Caius (see Lightfoot, Philippians4, 1878, p. 174).
T. B. Allworthy.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Apelles
Founder of a Gnostic sect; died at an advanced age late in the second century. What little is known of his life is gleaned chiefly from fragments of the writings of his antagonist Rhodon, preserved by Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., V, xii), and from Tertullian’s “Prescription against Heretics” (xxx). At Rome he separated from Marcion, whose most famous pupil he was, and went to Alexandria, where he met the visionary Philumene, whose utterances he regarded as inspired. Besides collecting her oracles in a book entitled “Manifestations”, he wrote an extensive work, Eullogismoi, an attack on Mosaic theology. The moral character of Apelles is differently estimated according as one is influenced either by Rhodon’s uncoloured picture of the aged heresiarch, or by the stories of scandals in his early life to which Tertullian, not without exaggeration, refers.
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HARNACK, De Apellis gnosi monarchicâ (Leipzig, 1874); IDEM in Texte und Untersuch. (Leipzig, 1890), VI, iii, 109-120, and ibid. (new series, Leipzig, 1900), V, iii, 93-100; BARDENHEWER, Gesch. der altkirch. Lit. (Freiburg, 1902), I, 343, 344; TILLEMONT, Mémoires (Venice, 1732), II, 282-285, 610, 611. BAREILLE, in Dict. de théol. cath., I, 1455-57. HORT in Dict. of Christ. Biog. (London, 1877), I, 127, 128.
JOHN B. PETERSON Transcribed by Robert B. Olson
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume ICopyright © 1907 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Apelles
a Christian at Rome whom Paul salutes (Rom. 16:10), and styles “approved in Christ.”
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Apelles
A Christian saluted in Rom 16:10 as “approved in Christ.” A common Jewish name, probably not, as Origen thought, Apollos. Said to have been afterward bishop of Smyrna.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Apelles
APELLES.The name of a Christian who is greeted by St. Paul in Rom 16:10, and who is described as the approved in Christ. It was the name borne by a distinguished tragic actor, and by members of the household.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Apelles
a-pelez (, Apelles): A Christian at Rome to whom Paul sends greetings (Rom 16:10). He is described by Paul as the, approved in Christ, i.e. that approved Christian (Denney). In some way unknown to us Apelles had been tested and he had proved faithful (compare Jam 1:12; 2Ti 2:15). It is a common name. Many commentators refer to Horace (Satires, i.5.100): Credat Judaeus Apella, non ego.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Apelles
Apelles, a Christian at Rome, whom Paul salutes in his Epistle to the Church there (Rom 16:10), and calls ‘approved in Christ,’ i.e. an approved Christian. According to the old church traditions Apelles was one of the seventy disciples, and bishop either of Smyrna or Heracleia.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Apelles
[Apel’les]
A Christian of Rome saluted by Paul as ‘approved in Christ.’ Rom 16:10.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Apelles
G559
A disciple in Rome.
Rom 16:10
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Apelles
Apel’les. (called). A Christian saluted by St. Paul in Rom 16:10. Tradition makes him bishop of Smyrna or Heraclea. (A.D. 55).