Meanings of first apostle in English

Why select the last disciple and ignore the first apostle?

With Luwuh in the middle of the eighth century we have our first apostle of tea.

And now to this hell of hypocrisy and villainy came the first apostle to the natives.

Marseilles claims to have had as its first apostle Lazarus, whom Christ raised from the dead.

Ulfilas died at Constantinople like Athanaric, but there was no royal funeral for the first apostle of the Northern nations.

Maduro has cast himself as Chavez's " first apostle" and has sought to emulate his former boss's fiery rhetoric on the campaign trail.

They would kill the first Apostle that came into the place, they said.

The period of the first apostles was the period of the church's purity and triumph.

Nothing arose out of it affecting his relations with the first apostles or his own apostleship.

Who but the Northumbrian Willibrod and Winifrid of Devon, with their followers, were the first Apostles of Germany?

Again, the first apostles of Co-operation expected nothing less than that their ideas would be universally, immediately, and ardently adopted.

Take, for example, the following verses from parallel narratives in Matthew and in Mark, concerning the calling of the first apostles:-

012:028 And by God's appointment there are in the Church- first Apostles, secondly Prophets, thirdly teachers.

Thus we see the same signs following the believer in our day the same as in the days of the first apostles.

And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healing,' etc.

Since the first apostles were employed as special agents in establishing the perfected New Testament church, Paul's connection therewith is of particular importance.