He was the great apostle of hypermodernism, laying back and covertly undermining the opponent's center.
Nietzsche, the first great Wagner apostle but later a bitter apostate, heard in the music a forecast of doom for German culture.
Indifferent to the danger, he engages Duke in lively conversation and toasts him as "the last great apostle of rugged individualism."
When Roosevelt, the great apostle of American sea power, took the White House, the enthusiasm became that of a raging bull.
Thus, Muhammad, by saying this, clearly made it a point to the Arabs to not make any distinction between the great apostles of God.
"But who, in the words of the great apostle, my master, in truth is not far from any one of us," answered Cyril.
The great apostle Paul, says I am the chief of sinners!
He has been, I consider, a great apostle of the Newness to many, even when neither he nor they knew very clearly what was going forward.
At the voice of the great apostle the Irish nation not only embraced Christianity, but many also, following his example, embraced the canonical life.
Had not the "great apostle" confessed that even he was incapable of doing what he willed?