Acts 18:12-17.
Gallion (gr. Gallion, “milky”). Roman proconsul of Achaia* (Greece) when the apostle Paul visited Corinth for the 1st time. His name was Marco Aneo Novato and he was born c 3 BC in Córdoba, Spain, but, when he was adopted by the orator Lucius Junius Gallio, his name was changed to Junius Aneus Gallio. His 2 brothers were Seneca (the philosopher and Nero’s tutor) and Marco Aneo Mela (the geographer and father of the poet Lucan). Around 66 AD, Nero forced the 3 brothers to commit suicide. Gallio was a statesman, a senator from Rome, and once a consul. It is known that he was proconsul of Achaea from Act 18: 12-17 and from a letter to Seneca, but the date of his rule was not known until a fragmentary inscription published in 1905 by E was found at Delphi, Greece. Bourguet. In it the emperor Claudius calls him his “friend and proconsul of Achaia”. A date on this inscription, along with other known data, indicates that Gallio ruled in AD 51/52 or 52/53 He proved an impartial judge when Paul was brought before him by his Jewish enemies, and acted like a worthy Roman officer by refusing to take sides in a Jewish religious dispute. Probably because he despised the Jews, like most Romans, he did not interfere when Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, was cruelly beaten in the presence of the ruler. In this way, unconsciously, Gallio helped Paul in his work (fig 137). 234. Gallio inscription found at Delphi. Bib.: A. Doissmann, St. Paul (London, 1912), pp 235-260.
Source: Evangelical Bible Dictionary
proconsul of the Roman province of Achaia, appointed by Emperor Claudius, in 51-52, according to an inscription found at Delphi. His full name was Lucio Juno Galión Anneo, brother of the Hispano-Roman Stoic philosopher Lucio Anneo Seneca, who committed suicide in the year 65, by order of Emperor Nero, for which G. also took his own life. Paul was brought before G. when he was preaching in Corinth, after being arrested by the Jews, who accused him of persuading the people to worship God contrary to the Law. G. replied that he did not want to be a judge in matters of justice. the Law of the Jews, and threw them out of court, Acts 18, 12-16.
Digital Bible Dictionary, Grupo C Service & Design Ltda., Colombia, 2003
Source: Digital Bible Dictionary
Roman proconsul of Achaea of whom the Roman philosopher Seneca said:
“No mortal has been so sweet to one as Gallio was to all.” The Jews brought Paul before him, hoping to prove that Paul was guilty of an offense against a legal religion, and therefore against the Roman government himself (Acts 18:12-17). Gallio rejected his argument. His action amounted to an authoritative decision that Paul’s preaching was not subversive against Rome, giving the Apostle the necessary protection.
Gallio did not become a Christian; he died by suicide.
Source: Hispanic World Bible Dictionary
Roman procurator of Achaia. When “the Jews rose up…against Paul” at Corinth, G. “threw them out of court,” refusing to “be a judge of these things.” “Then all the Greeks, seizing Sosthenes … beat him before the court; but G. was given none of it† (Acts 18:12-17). His full name was Lucius Junius Gallio. He was the brother of the philosopher Seneca, Nero’s teacher. From an inscription found in the city of Delphi it is known that G. exercised his functions in the year 52 AD. c.
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
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Vet, Roman Proconsul of Achaea at the time of Paul’s first visit to Corinth. His original name was Marco Anneo Novato; born in Córdoba, he was adopted by the family of Lucio Junio Gallión and then adopted the name of Junio Anneo Galión. Brother of the philosopher Seneca, he was like him killed by order of Nero. The date of his proconsulate in Corinth can be specified thanks to the discovery of the Delphi Stone in 1905, which mentions him. He held this office from May 51 to May 52. After the Jews, exasperated by Paul’s success at Corinth, brought him before the proconsul’s court, Gallio refused to pay attention to their religious disputes, and ignored the accusation. He likewise assumed a total indifference to the excesses of the mob who, having seized Sosthenes, head of the synagogue, beat him before the court (Acts 18:12-17). (See IF YOU ARE).
Source: New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
Proconsul of Achaia before whose court the Jews accused Paul of persuading men to worship God in another way. Gallio dismissed the case on the grounds that there was a violation of Roman law. Then the crowd began beating Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, but Gallio didn’t bother about it either. (Acts 18:12-17.)
According to secular sources, Gallio was born in Cordoba, Spain, in the early 1st century CE. He was the son of the rhetorician Seneca and the older brother of Seneca the philosopher. Gallio’s original name was Lucius Anneus Novatus, but when adopted by the rhetorician Lucius Junius Gallio, he received his name.
An inscription from Delphi helps us determine when Gallio was proconsul of Achaea. (Ac 18:12) The text of the inscription has had to be reconstructed, since only a few fragments survive, but it clearly contains the name “nius Gallio, proconsul.” Historians generally agree that the text is a letter from Emperor Claudius Caesar and that the number 26 found in it indicates that Claudius had received the imperial acclamation for the twenty-sixth time. (Claudius made Achaia a separate province again, responsible to the Senate, and thus with a proconsul.) This letter was probably written in the first half of 52 CE, as other inscriptions indicate that Claudius was acclaimed emperor for the twenty-seventh time before August 1, 52 CE A Carian inscription and another on the aqueduct called Aqua Claudia in Rome place Claudius’ twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh imperial acclamations within the year of his twelfth period of tribunitian power. This twelfth tribunitian period ran from January 25, 52 CE to January 24, 53 CE. Thus, Gallio was proconsul of Achaia (an office beginning in early summer and lasting one year) from the summer of 51 CE until the summer of 52 CE, although some scholars lean in favor of the years 52-53 CE
Fragment of an inscription with the name Gallio (ΓΒΛΛΙΩΠ)
Source: Dictionary of the Bible
Lucius Junius Aneus (or Aneus) Gallio was the son of Seneca, the master of rhetoric, and the brother of the philosopher Seneca. An inscription at Delphi (GIS, 2³, 801; cf. text and discussion by K. Lake, BC, 5, pp. 460ff.) virtually assures that he was proconsul of Achaia in AD 52–53, an office in which we see him in Hch. 18.12ff. This allows us to have a fixed point in the Pauline chronology, even though the precise dates of his mandate are not known. According to what his brother Seneca (Ep. Mor.104.1; Quaest. 4a, pref.11) and other ancient writers (eg Pliny, HN 21.33; Tacitus, Ann.15.73); Cassius Dio, 61. 35; 62.25) say that he was an almost irreproachable person. Luke indicates that he adamantly refused to listen to an accusation against Paul instigated by the Jews, because no charge of a criminal nature was made. The already proverbial “Gallio was given none of it” (Acts 18:17) indicates less his religious indifference than his complicity in the subsequent outbreak of anti-Semitism. The Western text expresses the meaning: “Gallio pretended not to see.” He was executed on the orders of Nero in 65 AD
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Douglas, J. (2000). New Biblical Dictionary: First Edition. Miami: United Bible Societies.
Source: New Bible Dictionary