ACTS 18:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.”
He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught accurately about Jesus — Yet he knew only the baptism of John — Apollos's pedagogical passion (zeon tō pneumati, fervent in spirit) combines with ignorance of Christian baptism and, implicitly, Pentecostal pneumatology. He represents incomplete gospel knowledge.
Church Fathers on Acts 18:25
This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the Spirit, he spoke and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. Acts 18:25-26 If this man knew only the baptism of John, how is it that he was fervent in the Spirit, for the Spirit was not given in that…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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