_After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth._ PAUL AT CORINTH Paul entered, not the grand, classical Corinth, but a sort of afterglow Corinth. The old city had been destroyed by Consul Mummius 146 B.C. It was burned to the ground. The streets ran with molten metal from the inn... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 he does not break new ground, but goes over the old scenes. Who that remembers the treatment which h... [ Continue Reading ]
_And found a certain Jew named Aquila … with his wife Priscilla._ AQUILA AND PRISCILLA No book is less systematic than the Bible, yet none has so complete a code of faith and duty. Its statements of principles and directions for conduct, again, are not always on the surface, but often where we shou... [ Continue Reading ]
_And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit (R._., BY THE WORD). ENTHUSIASM JUSTIFIED 1. Different effects are produced in different minds by the proclamation of the same truths. Some may accept it with a languid spirit, assured of its verity, but wholly... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak._ PAUL’S VISION speaks to us about three things. I. The worker. Paul, at a time of sore discouragement and depression. The best of men are but men at the best. The strongest men, apart from a firm faith in the Lord Go... [ Continue Reading ]
_And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection._ GALLIO AND PAUL The proconsul of Achaia had ended his term of office, and the proconsul appointed by the emperor was Marcus Annaeus Novatus, who, having been adopted by the friendly rhetorician Lucius Junius Gallio, had taken t... [ Continue Reading ]
_And Gallio cared for none of those things._ THE INDIFFERENTISM OF GALLIO Gallio is one of the most unfortunate characters in all history. It has been his fate to suffer at the hands of foes and friends. It was once the fashion to regard him in the light of this single incident, and to condemn him... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 while” he “took his leave of the brethren.” This is a new tone. Paul has not often gone away from a ci... [ Continue Reading ]
_I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem._ THE DUTY OF OBSERVING THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER When our Lord came to be baptized He satisfied John by saying, “Suffer it to be so, for thus it behoveth us to fulfil all righteousness”--_i.e., _it becomes us to observe every... [ Continue Reading ]
And after he had spent some time [at Antioch] he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia._--_ PAUL’S THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY 1. Nothing was said as to who went with him from Corinth to Syria. It was not, however, Paul’s custom to travel alone if he could help it. The probab... [ Continue Reading ]
_And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him._ THE DUTY OF THE CHURCH AT HOME TO THE WORK AND THE WORKERS ABROAD 1. We should give our Christian brother Godspeed on his work for God. 2. We can sometimes help the cause of foreign mission... [ Continue Reading ]