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APOLLYON, the " foul fiend " who assaulted Christian on his pilgrimage through the Valley of Humiliation in John Bunyan's great allegory. The name (Gr. 'AToXXwov), which means " destroyer " (diroXXwii', to destroy), is taken from Rev. ix. n, where it represent ...

APOLLOS ('AroXXwt; contracted from Apollonius), an Alexandrine Jew who after Paul's first visit to Corinth worked there in a similar way (i Cor. iii. 6). He was with Paul at a later date in Ephesus (i Cor. xvi. n). In i Cor. i. 10-12 we read of four parties in

APOLLONIUS, surnamed 6 6wr<coXos (" the Surly or Crabbed"), a celebrated grammarian of Alexandria, who lived in the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He spent the greater part of his life in his native city, where he died; he is also said to have visited R

... sh tradition as " king of demons." He is sometimes identified with Beelzebub or Apollyon (Rev. ix. n). In the Talmud he plays a great part in the legends concerning Solomon. In the apocryphal book of Tobit (iii. 8)occurs the well-known story of his love for Sa ...