[Trumpinator]

Interesting Paul would call a poet a prophet. I have never heard this before or if I did I forgot. I usually find such asides more interesting than the main points.

[Verginius Rufus]

The word Paul uses, prophetes, has a history in Greek, being used of one who speaks for a god and interprets his will, such as the priestess of Apollo at Delphi (although in her case a different form is used, prophetis, the feminine). So Paul was not necessarily equating such a person in the Greek tradition with one of the Hebrew prophets...but it is to his advantage to speak respectfully of Epimenides so that his quotation carries more weight.