Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 18:7
He went into the house of one named Justus — A Gentile, and preached there, though probably he still lodged with Aquila.
He went into the house of one named Justus — A Gentile, and preached there, though probably he still lodged with Aquila.
ACTS 18:7 evkei/qen The Western reviser emended evkei/qen to avpo. tou/ VAku,la (D ith), and other witnesses conflated the two readings; thus evkei/qen avpo. tou/ VAku,la, 614 (1799) 2412. But it is...
Verse Acts 18:7. _AND HE DEPARTED THENCE_] From his former lodging, or that quarter of the city where he had dwelt before with Aquila and Priscilla; and went to lodge with _Justus_, apparently a prose...
A CERTAIN MAN’S HOUSE - Probably he had become a convert to the Christian faith. JOINED HARD - Was near to the synagogue....
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...
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...
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...
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...
JUSTUS. Some texts read Titus, or Titius, Justus. WORSHIPPED. Greek. _sebomai._ App-137. GOD. App-98. JOINED HARD. Greek. _sunomoreo._ Only here....
_a certain man's house, named Justus_ He used this house for the purposes of teaching and worship. We may suppose that for his own lodging, he still remained with Aquila and Priscilla. Some MSS. give...
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...
ΕἸΣΗ͂ΛΘΕΝ ΕἸΣ ΟἸΚΊΑΝ ΤΙΝῸΣ ὈΝΌΜΑΤΙ ἸΟΎΣΤΟΥ, _he entered into a certain man’s house named Justus_. St Paul perhaps used this house for the purposes of teaching and worship. We may suppose that for his...
_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...
ΜΕΤΑΒΆΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΜΕΤΑΒΑΊΝΩ (G3425) уходить, покидать, ΕΊΣΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1525) входить. Павел перенес место обучения в синагогу, но сам продолжал жить у Аки...
JUSTUS,— From the account here given of this Justus, he was a devout Gentile,whomSt. Paul now converted through divine grace to Christianity at Corinth. The Jews had, in some places, houses _annexed t...
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...
See notes on verse 6...
And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue. AND HE DEPARTED THENCE, AND ENTERED INTO A CERTAIN M...
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...
18:7 worshipped (d-17) See Note, ch. 13.43....
JUSTUS] RV 'Titus Justus.' Probably a Roman colonist of the Roman colony Corinth....
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 ENTERED INTO A CERTAIN MAN’S HOUSE, NAMED JUSTUS. — On the name, see Note on Acts 1:23. It may be added here that it occurs also in early Christian inscriptions in the Vatican Museum, in one case...
μεταβὰς ἐκεῖθεν, _i.e._, from the synagogue, _cf._ Luke 10:7, “he removed,” Rendall; “he changed his place _from the synagogue_,” Ramsay: the verb is found three times with ἐκεῖθεν in St. Matthew, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
− 7._Departing thence. _Paul did not change his lodging which he had with Priscilla and Aquila, because he was weary of their company; but that he might more familiarly insinuate himself and come in f...
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 HE DEPARTED THENCE,..... Not from Corinth, but from the synagogue: AND ENTERED INTO A CERTAIN MAN'S HOUSE NAMED JUSTUS; he did not return to Aquila and Priscilla, because they were Jews, lest he...
And he departed thence, and entered into a certain _man's_ house, named Justus, _one_ that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue. Ver. 7. _Whose house joined hard to the synagogue_...
_He entered into a man's house, named Justus_ A Gentile, but a worshipper of the true God: and he preached there, though probably he still lodged with Aquila. He the rather chose to preach in the hous...
ONE THAT WORSHIPPED GOD; a proselyte to the Jewish religion....
Success in preaching to the Gentiles:...
AND HE DEPARTED THENCE, AND ENTERED INTO A CERTAIN MAN'S HOUSE NAMED JUSTUS, ONE THAT WORSHIPED GOD, WHOSE HOUSE JOINED HARD TO THE SYNAGOGUE....
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...
AND HE DEPARTED FROM THERE AND ENTERED THE HOUSE OF A CERTAIN _MAN_ NAMED JUSTUS, _ONE_ WHO WORSHIPED GOD, WHOSE HOUSE WAS NEXT DOOR TO THE SYNAGOGUE. 1. He moved out of the house of Aquila (a Jew) a...
"And he departed thence, and went into the house of. certain man named Titus Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue"Titus Justus" This is. Roman name. "One that wors...
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...
JUSTUS; some read Titus, some both Titus and Justus, making Justus a surname, as ACTS 1:23 COLOSSIANS 4:11; after the manner of the Romans. ONE THAT WORSHIPPED GOD; had forsaken the polytheism of the...
Acts 18:7 And G2532 departed G3327 (G5631) there G1564 entered G2064 (G5627) G1519 house G3614 certain...
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...
‘And he departed from there, and went into the house of a certain man named Titus Justus, one who worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.' A God-fearer (one who worshipped God) who l...
Acts 18:7. AND HE DEPARTED THENCE, AND ENTERED INTO A CERTAIN MAN'S HOUSE, NAMED JUSTUS, ONE THAT WORSHIPPED GOD, WHOSE HOUSE JOINED HARD TO THE SYNAGOGUE. As long as it was possible, Paul seems alway...
TITUS JUSTUS (Τιτου Ιουστου). So Aleph E Vulgate, while B has Τιτιαυ Ιουστου, while most MSS. have only Ιουστου. Evidently a Roman citizen and not Titus, brother of Luke, of Galatians 2:1. We had Ba...
JUSTUS Titus Justus....
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...
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....
_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...
_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 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 proclamati...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:7 Paul did not completely give up on witnessing to the Jews of Corinth, as his relocating NEXT DOOR TO THE SYNAGOGUE indicates. ⇐
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of witness on his second journey. ⇐ ⇔...
_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...
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...
Acts 10:2; Acts 10:22; Acts 13:42; Acts 16:14; Acts 17:4;...
Observe here, 1. That the opposition which St. Paul met with while he lodged in the house of Aquila and Priscilla, moved him to change his quarters, and betake himself to. new lodging: he goes into th...