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SAYING ... - See this passage explained in the Matthew 13:14 note, and
John 12:39 notes....
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CHAPTER 28
_ 1. In the Island of Melita (Acts 28:1)._
2. The arrival in Rome (Acts 28:11).
3. Paul calling the chief of the Jews and his message (Acts 28:17).
Melita, which means “honey,” is the is...
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THE JEWS ARE HARDENED. It was a numerous meeting; we can scarcely
understand the words to mean that more came the second time than the
first. The kingdom of God is a wide phrase for the Christian doct...
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WELCOME AT MALTA (Acts 28:1-6)...
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When we arrived in Rome, permission was given to Paul to stay in his
own house with the soldier who was his guard. After three days he
invited the leaders of the Jews to come to see him. When they had...
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IS WAXED GROSS. has become fat. Greek. _pachunomai._ Only here and
Matthew 13:15.
THEIR EARS, &C. = with their ears they hear heavily.
CLOSED. Greek. _kammuo_. Only here and Matthew 13:15.
LEST. le...
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_and should be converted_ [_R. V._"and should turn again"] The new
rendering is to be preferred on account of the restricted meaning
which in modern speech has become attached to the word "convert." I...
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ΚΑῚ ἘΠΙΣΤΡΈΨΩΣΙΝ, _and should turn again_. This
rendering is to be preferred on account of the restricted meaning
which in modern speech has become attached to the word ‘convert’
of the A.V. In the ol...
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ST PAUL’S INTERVIEW WITH THE JEWS IN ROME...
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_PAUL REMAINED A PRISONER AT ROME ACTS 28:23-31:_ Many Jews came to
Paul's house. He used the Law and the Prophets to talk to them about
God's kingdom (church). His goal was to "persuade them concerni...
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ΈΠΑΧΎΝΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΠΑΧΎΝΩ (G3975)
откармливать, откармливаться, делать
черствым; _pass._ становиться черствым
(TDNT).
ΏΣΊΝ _dat. pl._ от ΟΥΣ (G3775) ухо. _Instr. dat._
ΒΑΡΈΩΣ (G917) _adv....
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AT ROME. Acts 28:16-31.
Acts 28:16
And when we entered into Rome, Paul was suffered to abide by himself
with the soldier that guarded him.
Acts 28:17
And it came to pass, that after three days he c...
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See notes on verse 25...
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For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull
of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with
their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with t...
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9 Three months busy with blessing thus came out of the catastrophe.
Had the ship wintered in Cnidus, as they had wished, or at Ideal
Harbors, as Paul proposed, the ship and cargo might indeed have bee...
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ST. PAUL IN ROME (28:16-31)
16. The captain of the guard] either the captain of the prætorian
guard (_proefectus proetorio_), or, more probably, the captain of the
troops called _frumentarii_, whose...
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ST. PAUL A PRISONER AT ROME
1. They.. they] RV 'we.. we.' MELITA] RM 'Melitene.' Melita is
certainly Malta, and not (as has been erroneously supposed) Meleda off
the Illyrian coast. Tradition correct...
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 28
ON THE ISLAND CALLED MALTA, 28:1-10
V1 We arrived on the shore. We discovered that the island was called
Malta. V2 The people who lived ther...
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ἰάσωμαι, see critical note; the indicative future as in R.V.
adds to the force and vigour of the passage; after μή it represents
the action of the verb as more vividly realised as possible and
probabl...
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PREACHING IN THE WORLD'S CAPITAL
Acts 28:21
It was one of the earliest cares of Paul to summon the leading members
of the Jewish community, that he might explain to them his position.
He made clear t...
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On land new perils threatened. While gathering sticks for a fire, a
viper fastened on the apostle's hand. Shaking it off, he was unharmed.
This convinced those who watched that he was divine, and they...
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After three days in Rome, Paul called for the leaders of the Jews. He
explained to them that he was in Rome because of charges brought
against him by their brethren in Jerusalem. The authorities had w...
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For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull
of hearing, and their eyes have they (h) closed; lest they should see
with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and understand...
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And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his
lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God,
persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, a...
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The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an
episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to
Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
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At Melita we find him again exercising his accustomed power among that
barbarous people. One sees that God is with him. Evangelisation does
not, however, appear in the account of his sojourn there, or...
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FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE IS WAXED GROSS,.... Or fat; stupefied
with notions of carnal and temporal things, and become hardened
against, and unsusceptible of, divine and spiritual things:
AND THEI...
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For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull
of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with
_their_ eyes, and hear with _their_ ears, and understand wit...
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Very soon contacting inhabitants, they found that the island was
called Melita, present day Malta. The people are called "barbarous,"
which only means they were not Greek or Jewish -- not the cultured...
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SO WHEN THEY DID NOT AGREE AMONG THEMSELVES, THEY DEPARTED AFTER PAUL
HAD SAID ONE WORD: " THE HOLY SPIRIT SPOKE RIGHTLY THROUGH ISAIAH THE
PROPHET TO OUR FATHERS,
26 saying, " Go to this people and...
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23-31 Paul persuaded the Jews concerning Jesus. Some were wrought
upon by the word, and others hardened; some received the light, and
others shut their eyes against it. And the same has always been t...
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Though God did forsake this people, (being first forsaken of them),
and withdraw his gratuitous assistance from them, yet it is all justly
charged upon them, they having by their sins said unto God, _...
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25-28. From what follows, we have reason to suppose that the
unbelieving party gave some unbecoming expression to their sentiments.
(25) "_ And disagreeing among themselves, they dispersed, Paul sayin...
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Acts 28:27 For G1063 hearts G2588 this G5127 people G2992 dull G3975
(G5681) G2532 ears G3775 hard...
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‘And when they did not agree among themselves, they departed after
that Paul had spoken one word, “Well spoke the Holy Spirit through
Isaiah the prophet to your fathers, saying, Go you to this people,...
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Acts 28:1. _And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island
was called Melita. And the barbarous people shewed us no little
kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, bec...
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CONTENTS: The landing at Melita. Miracle of the viper's bite. Healing
of Publius' father. Paul's arrival at Rome and his ministry there to
the Jews. Paul turns to the Gentiles.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, Hol...
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Acts 28:1. _Melita,_ now Malta. This island seems to have been
inhabited by runaways, for _melim,_ in the language of Carthage, is to
escape. It was inhabited by a colony of refugees from Carthage, a...
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SO THEY SET A DATE WITH PAUL. A large number came to hear what he
would say. HE TRIED TO CONVINCE THEM. Paul used the Law of Moses and
the writings of the prophets to preach Christ to them. SOME OF TH...
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_Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand._
JUDICIAL HARDNESS
The passage from which the apostle quotes is Isaiah 6:1, where the
prophet received a special commission and was forewarned that h...
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_And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into
his lodging._
PAUL’S SECOND CONFERENCE WITH THE JEWS
Note--
I. The interesting character of his preaching. It was--
1. Evangelic...
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_And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to
the captain of the guard._
ROME AS SEEN BY PAUL
Within a circuit of little more than twelve miles more than two
millions of inhabit...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 28:26 Isaiah 6:9 is quoted here (compare Matthew
13:14). The HEART
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 28:23. INTO his LODGING.—Probably the “hired dwelling,”
μίσθωμα, of Acts 28:30, though some (Heschyius, Hackett)
consider the term ξενία points to a private house—perhaps that...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 28:1
We for _they, _A.V. and T.R. (twice). WAS CALLED. It reads as if it
was the answer to their question to the natives, "What is this island
called?" MELITA. That Melita is the isla...
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Tonight we'd like to just go through the twenty-eighth chapter of Acts
and finish this book so that next Sunday night we move into the first
two Chapter s of Romans. That's your reading assignment for...
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Waxed gross. See on Matthew 13:15.
Their ears are dull of hearing. Lit., with their ears they heard
heavily. Closed. See on Matthew 13:15....