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Bible Encyclopedias
Apelleans
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or followers of APELLES (See APELLES) , q.v.
Apelles
(Ἀπελλῆς, from the Lat. appello, to call), a Christian at Rome, whom Paul salutes in his epistle to the church there (Romans 16:10), and calls "approved in Christ," i.e. an approved Christian, A.D. 55. Origen doubts whether he may not have been the same person with Apollos; but this is far from likely. (See APOLLOS). According to the old Church traditions, Apelles was one of the seventy disciples, and bishop either of Smyrna or Heracleia (Epiph. Cont. Haeres. p. — 20; Fabricii Lux Evangelii, p. 115, 116, etc.). The Greeks observe his festival on Oct. 31. The name itself is notable from Horace's "Credat Judaeus Apella, non ego" (Sat. 1, 5), by which he less probably means a superstitious Jew in general, as many think, than a particular Jew of that name well known at Rome.
Apelles
surnamed, from his length of life, Senex, a heretic, and disciple of Marcion, who, having been falsely charged with the seduction of a young girl of Alexandria named Philumene, set up a school of his own, and became a critic of his former master. He taught that the Lord, when descending from heaven, formed to himself a body of particles of air, which he allowed to resolve itself into air again as he ascended. He taught that there was one God, the Creator of all things, who, when he had created the bad angels, intrusted to one of them the formation of the world. He denied the resurrection of the flesh, and repudiated the law and the prophets. — Cave, Hist. Lit. anno 188; Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. 5,13; Mosheim, Comm. 1, 487, 488; Lardner, Works, 8, 539 sq.
Apelles
a monk and 'priest near Acoris, in the Heptanomis, in the 4th century. He had been a smith, and a legend is related of his chasing Satan with a red- hot iron. He was famous for working many reputed miracles. See Niceph. Hist. 11:34; Sozomen, Hist. 6:28.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Apelleans'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/a/apelleans.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
