Types of Preachers in the New Testament Author:A. T. Robertson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: George H. Doran company Subjects: Bible Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Millio... more »n-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III AQUILA AND PRISCILLA PARTNERS IN SERVICE "Loyalty" is a great word; according to Prof. Josiah Royce it is the greatest of all words. The World War made it shine with fresh splendour. Disloyalty is not only a vice, but a crime. Dr. John A. Hutton, of Glasgow, argues that "Loyalty" is "the approach to faith." It is the dominant trait in John the Baptist's relation to Jesus (see my "John the Loyal"). It is the outstanding characteristic of Aquila and Priscilla in their relation to Paul. We are not told much about them, but what is given by Luke (Acts 18:2, 18, 26) and Paul (1 Cor. 16:19; Rom. 16: 3; 2 Tim. 4:19) sets this couple quite apart. "Aquila and Priscilla were, in St. Paul's eyes, people of importance in the early Church" (J. E. Roberts, in Hast- ings's "Dictionary of the Apostolic Church"). Paul speaks of them lovingly as "my coworkers" (rois avvepyobs nov, Rom. 16:3) in language that "shows that Prisca and Aquila occupied a different position from that of Paul's other coworkers" Weizsacker, "The Apostolic Age," vol. 1., p. 394). He adds: "The Apostle distinctively set them side by side with himself. They had, indeed, from the beginning laboured along with him in a pre-eminent manner, and after they had already attested their worth independently." No group of Paul's friends would be complete that did not include those two interesting persons whose lives evidently played a prominent part in the history of early Christianity. i. Priscilla's Preeminence The manuscripts vary a good deal between the form Prisca and the dimi...« less