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Verse Acts 18:11. _HE CONTINUED THERE A YEAR AND SIX MONTHS_] He was
now confident that he was under the _especial_ protection of God, and
therefore continued _teaching the word_, τον λογον, the
doct...
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AND HE CONTINUED ... - Paul was not accustomed to remain long in a
place. At Ephesus, indeed, he remained three years Acts 20:31; and his
stay at Corinth was caused by his success, and by the necessit...
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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...
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PAUL AT CORINTH. Corinth (p. 832), the seat of the Roman proconsul,
was to the Christian missionary as good a field as Athens was the
opposite. A great seaport, it was much addicted to vice and luxury...
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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...
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After this Paul left Athens and came to Corinth. There he found a Jew
called Aquila, who was a native of Pontus, but who had newly arrived
from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had decr...
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CONTINUED. Literally "sat". Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of
species). "Sit" used of. permanent condition.
A YEAR AND SIX MONTHS. In A.D. 52-53. During this period Paul wrote.
Thess. (A.D. 52) and....
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_And he continued_[DWELT] _there_ In these words the historian seems
to be expressing the content which pervaded the Apostle's mind after
the vision. Neither the A. V. nor the Revised rendering gives...
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Acts 18:1-11. PAUL GOES FROM ATHENS TO CORINTH, LABOURS THERE WITH HIS
OWN HANDS FOR HIS MAINTENANCE. HE IS ENCOURAGED IN HIS PREACHING BY A
VISION OF THE LORD...
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ἘΚΆΘΙΣΕΝ ΔΈ, _and he dwelt there_. In this word the
historian seems to intend to express the quiet and content which
filled the Apostle’s mind after the vision. καθίζω is
generally rendered ‘to sit do...
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_PAUL'S GREAT SUCCESS AT CORINTH ACTS 18:1-11:_ After Paul's sermon in
the Areopagus and the good result of it he traveled to Corinth. At
Corinth he associated with Aquila and his wife Priscilla. They...
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ΈΚΆΘΙΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΘΊΖΩ (G2523)
сидеть, оставаться,
ΈΝΙΑΥΤΌΝ ΚΑΊ ΜΉΝΑΣ ΕΞ, _асс._ времени:
полтора года. Таково было полное время
проповедничества Павла в этом городе
(FAP, 186).
ΔΙΔΆΣΚΩ...
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AND CRISPUS,— St. Paul's labours in the synagogue had not been
without some success; for _Crispus, one of the rulers_ of the
synagogue, embraced Christianity with his whole family; and afterwards
many...
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IN CORINTH. Acts 18:1-17.
Acts 18:1
After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.
Acts 18:2
And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race,
lately come from Ita...
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11. Under the assurance given by the Lord in the vision, Paul was
encouraged to continue his labors. (11) "_Then he continued there a
year and six months, teaching among them the word of God._" Instea...
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And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of
God among them.
AND HE CONTINUED THERE A YEAR AND SIX MONTHS, TEACHING THE WORD OF
GOD AMONG THEM. This is meant to embrace the wh...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AND HE CONTINUED THERE A YEAR AND SIX MONTHS. — This obviously gave
time not only for founding and organising a Church at Corinth itself,
but for work in the neighbouring districts, such as the port o...
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ἐκάθισε, see critical note, “he dwelt,” R.V., _cf._ Luke
24:49, but not elsewhere in N.T. in this sense, but constantly in LXX,
1MMalachi 2:1; 1Ma 2:29. Rendall renders “he took his seat,”
_i.e._, as...
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A GREAT MINISTRY IN A GREAT CITY
Acts 18:1
Paul tells us, in 1 Corinthians 2:1, that he entered Corinth with fear
and trembling and made no effort to attract by human wisdom or
eloquence. From the f...
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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...
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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...
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And he (e) continued [there] a year and six months, teaching the word
of God among them.
(e) Literally, "sat", whereupon they in former time took the name of
their bishop's seat: but Paul sat, that i...
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And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed
in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. (6)
And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his...
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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...
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_THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST_
‘Be not afraid … for I am with thee.’
Acts 18:9
The _ living Christ as the life of His Church_ is the keynote of the
Acts of the Apostles. Such is the glorious truth which...
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11._He continued there a year. _We do not read that Paul stayed so
long anywhere else save there; and yet it appeareth by his two
epistles that he was not only likely to suffer much troubles, but th...
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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...
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AND HE CONTINUED THERE,.... At Corinth, as the Syriac version, and
some copies, read; he was obedient to the heavenly vision: in the
Greek text it is, "he sat" there, answerable to the Hebrew word
יש...
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_Then spake the Lord_ The Lord Jesus; _in the night by a vision to
Paul_ Who, probably, had been discouraged in view of the learning,
politeness, and grandeur of many Gentile inhabitants of the city,...
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AND HE CONTINUED THERE A YEAR AND SIX MONTHS, TEACHING THE WORD OF GOD
AMONG THEM.
Having gone out from there, from the synagogue, having departed,
removed himself, from the midst of the blaspheming J...
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Success in preaching to the Gentiles:...
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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...
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AND HE CONTINUED _THERE_ A YEAR AND SIX MONTHS, TEACHING THE WORD OF
GOD AMONG THEM.
1. Until now, Paul had stayed weeks or maybe a month or two. Here he
is going to remain for the next year and a ha...
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CONTINUED:
Or, sat there...
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"And he dwelt there. year and six months, teaching the word of God
among them"Dwelt there" "Supported by the assurance given in the
vision, and full of fresh confidence, Paul settles down to evangeliz...
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7-11 The Lord knows those that are his, yea, and those that shall be
his; for it is by his work upon them that they become his. Let us not
despair concerning any place, when even in wicked Corinth Chr...
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He sat there as his fixed place; which implies his continuance and
constancy in the work of the ministry....
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11. Under the assurance given by the Lord in the vision, Paul was
encouraged to continue his labors. (11) "_ Then he continued there a
year and six months, teaching among them the word of God. " Inste...
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Acts 18:11 And G5037 continued G2523 (G5656) year G1763 and G2532 six
G1803 months G3376 teaching G1321 ...
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‘And he dwelt there a year and six months, teaching the word of God
among them.'
The result was that he preached for eighteen months without let or
hindrance, ‘teaching the word of God' among them. Th...
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SUCCESSFUL MINISTRY IN CORINTH (18:1-17).
Paul had recognised that in a small town like Athens he could well
spare his companions and had sent Timothy off to Thessalonica, and
Silas to Macedonia, pos...
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Acts 18:11. AND HE CONTINUED THERE A YEAR AND SIX MONTHS. This year
and a half was the whole period of his residence at Corinth. It was
during this lengthened stay that the apostle wrote the two epist...
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A YEAR AND SIX MONTHS
(ενιαυτον κα μηνας εξ). Accusative of extent of time.
How much time before this incident he had been there we do not know.
He was in Corinth probably a couple of years in all....
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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SO HE LEFT THEM. Paul now makes the house of a Gentile into his own
synagogue, next door to the Jewish synagogue! TITUS JUSTUS may be the
Titus to whom Paul wrote a letter. See introduction to _Titus....
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_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....
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_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...
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_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...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:9 The Lord assured Paul that, “I HAVE MANY IN
THIS CITY WHO ARE MY PEOPLE,” meaning that many in Corinth would
come to faith in Christ. Yet Paul did not conclude that his work in...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of
witness on his second journey.
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_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 busin...
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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...
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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...
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Acts 14:3; Acts 19:10; Acts 20:31...
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He continued there a year and six months — A long time! But how few
souls are now gained in a longer time than this? Who is in the fault?
Generally both teachers and hearers....