Acts 19:9: who is Tyrannus?
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 9:42 am
Acts 19:9
I have no idea.
I read from this:
http://biblehub.com/commentaries/acts/19-9.htm
In order to prove that Paul talked with Pagans, Georges Ory quotes Léon Herrmann in Cahier Renan N. 24 on saint Paul: ''home'' would be ''Temple'' and Tyrannus would be ''the god Men''. Who is the ''god Men'' ?But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spoke evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the home of one Tyrannus.
I have no idea.
I read from this:
http://biblehub.com/commentaries/acts/19-9.htm
though by others it is taken to be an appellative, and to design some great person, who patronised the apostle, and in whose house he taught; the word "tyrant", being formerly used for a king, a prince, or nobleman; and so the Arabic version renders it, "in the dwelling house of one of the great men"; the chief of Asia, that were his friends, Acts 19:31 and so the Ethiopic version, "and he taught daily before the court and the governors": some copies read "Tyrannius"; mention is made of a philosopher whose name was "Tyrannion", who was so called, because he vexed and disturbed those that were brought up in the same school with him (f); this man it seems was a schoolmaster; there was one of his name a bishop of Tyre, a martyr under Dioclesian; and another whose name was Tyrannus, bishop of Antioch (g); Beza's ancient copy, and one of Stephens's, add, "from the fifth hour to the tenth"; as if he spent five hours in public teaching every day, and rest in his trade and devotion.