Titus 3:13

Ἀπολλώ. This, the rec. spelling, has the authority of CD2*cEH** KLP d e f, and is adopted by Tregelles and Lachmann; Tischendorf and WH print Ἀπολλών with אD2bH* (cp. 1 Corinthians 4:6).

λείπη. So ACD2cEGLP &c. (with the rec. text), followed by Tregelles, Lachmann and WH; Tischendorf prefers λίπη with אD2* and some cursives, and WH give a place to this reading in their margin. See on ch. Titus 1:5.

13. Ζηνᾶν τὸν νομικὸν καὶ Ἀπολλὰ σπουδαίως πρόπεμψον κ.τ.λ. With diligence (cp. 2 Timothy 1:17) set forward on their journey Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, that nothing may be wanting to them.

The duty of speeding fellow-Christians on their journeys, of giving them a good ‘send-off,’ as we say, is often mentioned by St Paul; cp. Romans 15:24; 1 Corinthians 16:6; 1 Corinthians 16:11; 2 Corinthians 1:16, and see also 3 John 1:6. It is, in fact, a point of hospitality, on which so much stress is naturally laid in these early years of the Church’s life.

Of Zenas we know nothing further, not even whether the epithet ὁ νομικός is intended to describe him as skilled in Roman or Hebrew law. The Gospel use of the term (Luke 7:30) might seem to favour the latter interpretation, but there is no certainty. He was by late tradition counted the author of apocryphal Acts of Titus.

Of Apollos, on the other hand, we hear several times. He is the learned and eloquent Alexandrian whom we find (Acts 18:24) at Ephesus receiving instruction from Priscilla and Aquila, and then proceeding to Corinth, where all too soon parties arose claiming respectively Apollos and Paul as their leaders (1 Corinthians 3:4 &c.). Jerome accounts for the presence of Apollos in Crete by supposing that he had retired thither until the unhappy controversies among the Corinthians should have died out. But this is not a probable account of the matter.