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Acts 18:18-22
The Return Trip to Antioch and the Beginning of the Third Journey.
From Corinth to Antioch:
The Return Trip to Antioch and the Beginning of the Third Journey.
From Corinth to Antioch:
ACTS 18:18 One form of the Western text, preserved in ith, reads _Aquila, qui votum cum fecisset [Cenchris], caput tondit,_ from which Blass produced VAku,laj( o]j euvch.n e;cwn evn Kegcreiai/j th.n...
Verse Acts 18:18. _AND PAUL - TARRIED_ THERE _YET A GOOD WHILE_] The persecuting Jews plainly saw, from the manner in which the proconsul had conducted this business, that they could have no hope of...
AND SAILED THENCE INTO SYRIA - Or set sail for Syria. His design was to go to Jerusalem to the festival which was soon to occur, Acts 18:21. HAVING SHORN HIS HEAD - Many interpreters have supposed tha...
CHAPTER 18 _ 1. In Corinth with Aquila and Priscilla. His Testimony and Separation from the Jews (Acts 18:1)._ 2. Encouragement from the Lord in a vision (Acts 18:9). 3. Paul and Gallio (Acts 18:12...
JOURNEY TO SYRIA. No special object, is stated; the facts are placed before us abruptly, and some are hard to understand. An apostle is by his office a traveller who does not give himself to any one c...
PREACHING IN CORINTH (Acts 18:1-11) Its very position made Corinth (G2882) a key city of Greece. Greece is almost cut in two by the sea. On one side is the Saronic Gulf with its port of Cenchrea and...
After Paul had remained there many days longer he took leave of the brethren and sailed away to Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila went with him. At Cenchrea he had his head shorn for he had a vow. They...
TARRIED. stayed on. Greek. _prosmeno._ See note on Acts 11:23. A GOOD WHILE. many days. TOOK HIS LEAVE. having taken leave. Greek. _apotasso,_ to set apart. Mid. withdraw. In N.T. always in Mid. Voic...
PAUL LEAVES CORINTH TO GO INTO SYRIA, HALTING A SHORT TIME AT CENCHREÆ, AND SOMEWHAT LONGER AT EPHESUS. HE LANDS AT CÆSAREA, GOES UP TO JERUSALEM, AND FROM THENCE TO ANTIOCH, AND AFTER A TIME DEPARTS...
ἘΝ ΚΕΓΧΡΕΑΙ͂Σ ΤῊΝ ΚΕΦΑΛΉΝ with אAB. _Vulg_. ‘in Cenchreis caput.’ 18. ΠΡΟΣΕΊΝΑΣ ἩΜΈΡΑΣ ἹΚΑΝΆΣ, _having tarried many days_. This seems to refer to the period after the appearance before Gallio. We are...
_PAUL WATERED WHAT HE HAD PLANTED ACTS 18:18-23:_ At Cenchrea Paul shaved his head because of a vow he had made. One would be hard pressed to prove that this vow was one peculiar to the Law, which it...
ΠΡΟΣΜΕΊΝΑΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΜΈΝΩ (G4357) оставаться, ΉΜΈΡΑΣ ΊΚΑΝΆΣ _acc. pl. асс._ времени, "значительное количество дней". Точное время не указано (FAP, 185-86). ΆΠΟΤΑΞΆΜΕΝΟΣ _aor....
PAUL AFTER THIS TARRIED, &C.— The apostle, thus screened by Gallio, remained at Corinth a good while longer; so that his stay in that city was in all about two years. Considering his unwearied diligen...
AT CENCHREA. Acts 18:18. Acts 18:18 And Paul, having tarried after this yet many days, took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila: having shorn hi...
18. This incident occurred some time previous to the close of the eighteen months of Paul's stay in Corinth, as we learn from the next verse. (18) "_Now Paul, having still remained for many days, bade...
And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he...
3 While in Thessalonica he had been supported partly by gifts from Philippi, but now he engaged in tentmaking as a means of. livelihood. During his early days in Corinth his heart was continually occu...
A VOW] After delivery from danger or recovery from sickness, the Jews were accustomed to take upon themselves a modified form of the Nazirite vow (see Numbers 6). As the special consecration of this s...
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONCLUDED) 1-18. St. Paul at Corinth. Corinth was the capital of the Roman province of Achaia. The ancient town had been entirely destroyed in 146 b.c. by the Roman general...
ST PAUL'S SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY, 49, 50 A.D. (ACTS 15:36 TO ACTS 18:22) Having secured the formal recognition by the Twelve of Gentile Christianity, St. Paul was free to resume his missionary labo...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 18 PAUL GOES TO CORINTH, 18:1-4 V1 After this, Paul left Athens and he went to Corinth. V2 In Corinth, he met a *Jew called Aquila. Aquila had...
AND PAUL AFTER THIS TARRIED THERE YET A GOOD WHILE. — Literally, _tarried yet many days,_ the phrase probably covering a period of some months. The fact is noted as following on Gallio’s repression of...
ἔτι προσμείνας : this may be an addition to the year and a half, or may be included in it; on ἔτι see critical note. ἱκανάς, Lucan, see on Acts 8:11, etc. the expression shows how little the attack up...
NEW HELPERS IN THE GOSPEL Acts 18:18 In unimportant matters Paul was still amenable to Hebrew customs and rites, Acts 18:18. Probably he desired to conciliate his Judaizing opponents so far as he cou...
Leaving Athens, the center of the intellectual life of Greece, Paul came to Corinth, its commercial center. There he joined Aquila, and gave himself to the work of tent-making, while reasoning on the...
Preaching in Corinth Following his normal pattern, Paul first preached in the synagogue in Corinth. During that time, Silas and Timothy once again joined the apostle's company. Silas may have come fro...
(6) And Paul [after this] tarried [there] yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; (k) having shorn [his] head in (l)...
Shorn, &c. It was customary among the Jews to make vows of abstaining from all inebriating liquor, not to cut their hair for a limited time, &c. This was the vow of the Nazarites, mentioned in Numbers...
PAUL RETURNS TO ASIA 18. After an absence of two years, it is important that he go round among the churches in the Gentile world. His vow at Cenchrea was Jewish and Nazaritish, signifying its expirat...
And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, (13) Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
− 18._And when he had tarried there many days. _Paul’s constancy appeareth in this, in that he is not driven away with fear, lest he should trouble the disciples, who were as yet ignorant and weak, wi...
At Thessalonica Paul twice received succour from Philippi; at Corinth, where money and commerce abounded, he does not take it, but quietly works with two of his countrymen of the same trade as himself...
AND PAUL AFTER THIS TARRIED THERE YET A GOOD WHILE,.... A year and a half, as in Acts 18:11 for this insurrection might follow immediately upon the vision the apostle had; and who by that was encourag...
And Paul _after this_ tarried _there_ yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn _his_ head in Cenchrea: f...
_Paul after this_ After these tumultuous proceedings, and the opposition that was raised against him at Corinth by the Jews; _tarried there yet a good while_ Greek, ημερας ικανας, _many days_, after t...
SHORN HIS HEAD; cut off his hair, as was the custom in fulfilment of a vow, or promise to the Lord. CENCHREA; the seaport of Corinth, about eight miles east of the city....
Paul leaves Athens and is directed to Corinth, a city as loose and licentious as Athens, but where the gospel nevertheless found a response. There he found a Jew named Aquila who had come with his wif...
SO PAUL STILL REMAINED A GOOD WHILE. THEN HE TOOK LEAVE OF THE BRETHREN AND SAILED FOR SYRIA, AND PRISCILLA AND AQUILA _WERE_ WITH HIM. HE HAD _HIS_ HAIR CUT OFF AT CENCHREA, FOR HE HAD TAKEN A VOW....
18-23 While Paul found he laboured not in vain, he continued labouring. Our times are in God's hand; we purpose, but he disposes; therefore we must make all promises with submission to the will of Go...
A GOOD WHILE; a year and a half in all, as some think, which is mentioned ACTS 18:11, by a prolepsis; or, besides that year and a half there spoken of. TOOK HIS LEAVE OF THE BRETHREN; ordering every t...
18. This incident occurred some time previous to the close of the eighteen months of Paul's stay in Corinth, as we learn from the next verse. (18) " Now Paul, having still remained for many days, bade...
Acts 18:18 So G1161 Paul G3972 still G2089 remained G4357 (G5660) good G2425 while G2250 leave G657 ...
‘And Paul, having tarried after this yet many days, took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila, having shorn his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow...
PAUL RETURNS TO ANTIOCH VIA EPHESUS AND JERUSALEM (18:18-22). The ministry at Corinth continued for some time after which Paul decided that it was time to return back to the church at Syrian Antioch...
Acts 18:18. AND PAUL AFTER THIS TARRIED THERE YET A GOOD WHILE. Some months' additional work is covered by this expression. During this period, after the Proconsul Gallio's dismissal of the complaint,...
HAVING TARRIED AFTER THIS YET MANY DAYS (ετ προσμεινας ημερας ικανας). First aorist (constative) active participle of προσμενω, old verb, to remain besides (προς as in 1 Timothy 1:3) and that idea i...
Paul had been preaching the gospel at Athens to the most famous men of that city gathered at Areopagus. Acts 18:1. _After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth:_ Another most i...
CONTENTS: Paul at Corinth. The careless Gallio. Paul takes a Jewish vow. Apollos at Ephesus. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Paul, Aquila, Priscilla, Claudius, Silas, Timothy, Justus, Crispus, Gallio, Sosthenes,...
Acts 18:2. _Claudius had commanded all jews to depart from Rome._ Suetonius says that this was on account of Chrestus, [Christ] who continually excited disturbances. This edict was issued in the ninth...
PAUL STAYED ON IN CORINTH. This may be included in the year and a half (Acts 18:11). The point is that he was not forced to leave the area by what the Jews were doing. THEN LEFT THEM AND SAILED OFF. H...
_And he went through Syria and Cilicia confirming the churches._ PAUL AS A MODEL FOR ALL GOSPEL MINISTERS He recognises the importance of-- I. Establishing new converts in the faith. In this visit...
_And Paul after this tarried there a good while._ PREPARING FOR LABOUR 1. Paul has conquered his position in Corinth. He seemed to have acquired a right to remain there. And after tarrying “a good wh...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:18 The MANY DAYS LONGER that Paul continued in Corinth seems to be in addition to the 18 months noted in v. Acts 18:11. Syria
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of witness on his second journey. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:18. HAVING SHORN HIS HEAD AT CENCHREA, FOR HE HAD A VOW.—The uncertainties connected with this passage are three: 1. Whether Aquila (Kuinoel, Meyer, Wendt, Zöckler) or Paul...
EXPOSITION ACTS 18:1 _He _for _Paul, _A.V. and T.R. AFTER THESE THINGS, etc. No hint is given by St. Luke as to the length of Paul's sojourn at Athens. But as the double journey of the Beroeans, who...
Let's turn now to the eighteenth chapter of Acts as we continue our study through the Bible. At the end of the study last week, the end of chapter seventeen, we found Paul speaking to the Epicurean an...
1 Corinthians 9:20; Acts 15:23; Acts 15:41; Acts 21:24; Acts 21:3;...
Took his leave [α π ο τ α ζ α μ ε ν ο ς]. See on Luke 9:61; Mark 6:46. Priscilla and Aquila. They are named in the same order, Romans 16:3; 2 Timothy 4:19. Havin
Paul continued many days — After the year and six months, to confirm the brethren. Aquila having shaved his head — As was the custom in a vow, Acts 21:24; Numbers 6:18. At Cenchrea — A seaport town, a...
A farther account is here given of the laborious travels of the great apostle St. Paul; namely, from Corinth to Ephesus, from Ephesus to Cesarea, from Cesarea to Antioch, &c. Where observe, 1. That St...