CHAPTER 18 THE END OF THE SECOND AND BEGINNING OF THE THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY (PAUL AND TIMOTHY) § 1. Paul at Corinth; or, Meeting with New Friends (Acts 18:1). § 2. A Year and Six Months at Corinth; or, Three Significant Events (Acts 18:5). § 3. Paul before Gallio; or, a Case of Unsuccessful... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:1. PAUL.—Omitted in the best texts. How long the Apostle stayed in Athens—Weiseler suggests fourteen days; Ramsay, three or four weeks—and how he CAME TO CORINTH, whether by land or sea, cannot be determined. Acts 18:2. AQUILA BORN IN PONTUS.—Or, _a man of Pontus by race_... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:5. PRESSED IN SPIRIT.—According to the oldest authorities this should be _was held together by the word_, συνείχετο τῷ λόγῳ—_i.e._, either earnestly occupied with the business of preaching (Bengel, Holtzmann, and others), or wholly seized upon and constrained by the word... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:12. GALLIO.—Gallio became proconsul towards the end of Claudius’s reign, about A.D. 53. His character, as depicted by ancient writers, corresponded with that revealed in Luke’s narrative. “He was the very flower of pagan courtesy and pagan culture—a Roman with all a Roman’... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 (Augustine and most moderns) is here referred to. 2. Whether the hair shaving signified the assumpt... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:23. THE REGION OF GALATIA AND PHRYGIA.—See on Acts 16:6. Acts 18:24. A CERTAIN JEW NAMED APOLLOS—a diminutive or pet name for Apollomos, which occurs in Codex D. (Ramsay). BORN AT ALEXANDRIA, or _an Alexandrian by birth,_ he had probably received “the Jewish Grecian educa... [ Continue Reading ]