is, lit., “one sent forth” (apo, “from,” stello, “to send”). “The word is used of the Lord Jesus to describe His relation to God, Heb 3:1<\/span>; see Joh 17:3<\/span>. The twelve disciples chosen by the Lord for special training were so called, Luk 6:13<\/span>; Luk 9:10<\/span>. Paul, though he had seen the Lord Jesus, 1Co 9:1<\/span>; 1Co 15:8<\/span>, had not ‘companied with’ the Twelve ‘all the time’ of His earthly ministry, and hence was not eligible for a place among them, according to Peter’s description of the necessary qualifications, Act 1:22<\/span>. Paul was commissioned directly, by the Lord Himself, after His Ascension, to carry the Gospel to the Gentiles. <\/p>\n “The word has also a wider reference. In Act 14:4<\/span>, Act 14:14<\/span>, it is used of Barnabas as well as of Paul; in Rom 16:7<\/span> of Andronicus and Junias. In 2Co 8:23<\/span> (RV, margin) two unnamed brethren are called ‘apostles of the churches;’ in Phi 2:25<\/span> (RV, margin) Epaphroditus is referred to as ‘your apostle.’ It is used in 1Th 2:6<\/span> of Paul, Silas and Timothy, to define their relation to Christ.” * [* From Notes on Thessalonians, by Hogg and Vine, pp. 59-60.] <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “a sending, a mission,” signifies an apostleship, Act 1:25<\/span>; Rom 1:5<\/span>; 1Co 9:2<\/span>; Gal 2:8<\/span>. <\/p>\n Note: Pseudapostoloi, “false apostles,” occurs in 2Co 11:13<\/span>. <\/p>\n Apostle, Apostleship is, lit., “one sent forth” (apo, “from,” stello, “to send”). “The word is used of the Lord Jesus to describe His relation to God, Heb 3:1; see Joh 17:3. The twelve disciples chosen by the Lord for special training were so called, Luk 6:13; Luk 9:10. Paul, though he had seen the Lord … Continue reading “Apostle, Apostleship”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"