소스데네(Sosthenes) 는
Corinth 에 있는 유대 회당장이다. 이당시 유대인들이 바울을 고소했으나 당시 총독 갈리오가 바울을 풀어주자 소스데네를 때렸다.
12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia , the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,
13 saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”
14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
15 but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”
16 So he drove them from the judgment seat.
17 Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes , the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.
이 때까지만 해도 소스데네가 복음을 듣고 회심했다는 기록은 없다.
그러나 고린도전서에 보면 발신자에 이름이 있는 것으로 보아 이 시기 즈음에 회심한 것으로 보인다.
Paul , called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes ,