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Sosthenes

From: Concise Bible Dictionary: S

By: George A. Morrish

Narrator: Chris Genthree

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1. Chief ruler of the synagogue at Corinth, who was beaten by the rabble (Acts 18:17¹⁷Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things. (Acts 18:17)).

2. One whom Paul (when at Ephesus) unites with himself in the First Epistle to the Corinthians (1 Cor. 1:1¹Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, (1 Corinthians 1:1)).

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