Sosthenes

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savior; strong; powerful
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


SOSTHENES.—1. Ruler of the synagogue at Corinth, whom ‘they all’ (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ) laid hold on and beat when Gallio dismissed the case against St. Paul (Act_18:17). He probably succeeded Crispus as ruler when the latter became a Christian (v. 3), and the hostility of the rabble to the Jews showed itself when they were worsted in the courts. 2. ‘The brother’ associated with St. Paul in addressing the Corinthians (1Co_1:1), and therefore probably a native of Corinth who had special relations with the Church there. If both references are to the same man, he must have been converted after the Gallio incident.
A. J. Maclean.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


Sos'thenes (saviour of his nation). Sosthenes was a Jew at Corinth, who was seized and beaten, in the presence of Gallio. See Act_18:12-17. (A.D. 49).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


sos?the-nēz (Σωσθένης, Sōsthénēs): Chief of the synagogue at Corinth (Act_18:17). Possibly identical with the co-worker (afterward) of Paul mentioned in 1Co_1:1.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Sos?thenes, the chief of the synagogue at Corinth, when Paul was in that city on his second journey into Greece (Act_18:17). He was seized and beaten by the people, before the judgment-seat of Gallio, on account of the tumult raised by the Jews against Paul, of which he seems to have been one of the leaders. He is supposed to have been afterwards converted to Christianity, as a Sosthenes is mentioned by Paul as 'a brother,' and coupled with himself in 1Co_1:1. This identity is, however, a pure conjecture, and not remarkably probable; but apart from it, we know nothing of this second Sosthenes. Eusebius makes him one of the seventy disciples, and later tradition describes him as bishop of Kolophon.




The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.



(Σωσθένης, perhaps for Σωσι-έθνης, saver of his nation; a not infrequent Greek name) was a Jew at Corinth who was seized and beaten in the presence of Gallio, on the refusal of the latter to entertain the charge of heresy which the Jews alleged against the apostle Paul (see Act_18:12-17). A.D. 49. His precise connection with that affair is left in some doubt. Some have thought that he was a Christian, and was maltreated thus by his own countrymen because he was known as a special friend of Paul. But it is improbable, if Sosthenes was a believer, that Luke would mention him merely as “the ruler of the synagogue” (ἀρχισυνάγωγος), without any allusion to his change of faith. A better view is that Sosthenes was one of the bigoted Jews, and that “the crowd” (πάντες simply, and not πάντες ῞Ελληνες, is the true reading) were Greeks who, taking advantage of the indifference of Gallio, and ever ready to show their contempt of the Jews, turned their indignation against Sosthenes. In this case he must have been the successor of Crispus (Act_18:8) as chief of the synagogue (possibly a colleague with him, in the looser sense of ἀρχισυνάγωγοι, as in Mar_5:22), or, as Biscoe conjectures, may have belonged to some other synagogue at Corinth. Chrysostom's notion that Crispus and Sosthenes were names of the same person is arbitrary and unsupported.
Paul wrote the First Epistle to the Corinthians jointly in his own name and that of a certain Sosthenes whom he terms “the brother” (1Co_1:1). A.D. 54. The mode of designation implies that he was well known to the Corinthians; and some have held that he was identical with the Sosthenes mentioned in the Acts. If this be so, he must have been converted at a later period (Wettstein, N. Test. 2, 576), and have been at Ephesus, and not at Corinth, when Paul wrote to the Corinthians. The name was a common one, and but little stress can be laid on that coincidence. Eusebius says (H.E. 1, 12, 1) that this Sosthenes (1Co_1:1) was one of the seventy disciples, and a later tradition adds that he became bishop of the Church at Colophon, in Ionia.



CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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