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APOSTLE PAUL: THE ARCHITECT AND BUILDER OF THE CHURCH M. M. NINAN ____________________________________________ Aquila & Priscilla Priscilla was a woman of Jewish heritage and one of the earliest known Christian converts who lived in Rome. Her name is a Roman diminutive, or nickname, for Prisca. Aquila (Greek Ἀκύλας Akúlas), husband of Priscilla, was originally from Pontus. He, too, was a Jew who believed that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah promised by God to the Jews. Aquila had the family name of the commander of a legion and means "eagle." According to Acts 18:2-3, Aquila and Priscilla were tentmakers, as Paul is said to have been. This must have been the contact point. Priscilla and Aquila had been among the Jews expelled from Rome by the Roman Emperor Claudius in the year 49 as written by Suetonius. Priscilla and Aquila ended
APOSTLE PAUL: THE ARCHITECT AND BUILDER OF THE CHURCH M. M. NINAN ____________________________________________ up in Corinth (Greece). Paul lived with Priscilla and Aquila for approximately 18 months working as a tent maker along side the couple before they joined Paul to Syria, but stopped at Ephesus. They accompanied St. Paul to Ephesus (Acts 18:18-19), instructed the Alexandrian Apollo, entertained the Apostle Paul at Ephesus for three years. They kept a Christian church in their house (1 Corinthians 16:19). They left Ephesus for Rome, probably after the riot stirred up by the silversmith Demetrius (Acts 19:24-40). In Rome also they started a house church. (Romans 16:3-5), but soon left that city, probably on account of the persecution of Nero, and settled again at Ephesus (2 Timothy 4:19). According to church tradition, Aquila did not long dwell in Rome as Apostle Paul made him a bishop in Asia. The Apostolic Constitutions identify Aquila, along with Nicetas, as the first bishops of Asia . Tradition also reports that Aquila ended his life a martyr, along with Priscilla. In Acts 18:24-28, states that in Ephesus they took a well known evangelist Apollos aside and corrected him. Appolos, "taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue; but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the Way of God to him more accurately." Priscilla and Aquila were among the earliest known teachers of Christian theology. In the majority of the references to the couple in the bible, Priscilla precedes Aquila. Some suggests that this indicates that Priscilla was the more spiritually prominent of the two. Priscilla and Aquila accompanied Paul to Ephesus (Acts 18: 18) in 53 A. D. The couple is next mentioned in connection with Apollos (Acts 18: 26). It appears the couple came back to Rome in about 56 A. D. (Rom. 16: 3). Paul referred to them as "his helpers," who were willing to give their lives for the cause of Christ (Rom. 16: 3, 4, cp. I Cor. 16: 19, 2 Tim. 4: 19).
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