Endnote 5 – Joanna

The Greek word episemoi can mean any of these things and in all cases is a superlative of some sort. Whether he called them prominent or notable or outstanding apostles, Paul clearly thinks highly of them. The Greek phrase has sometimes been taken to mean notable to the apostles or even noted by the apostles, but the Greek preposition en here surely has its normal meaning of “in” or “among,” as the earliest Greek commentators on this verse, Origen and John Chrysostom, admit.