Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III " And then he carefully indicates all the rest of their journey as far as Philippi, and how they delivered their first address: "for, sitting down," he says, "we spake unto the women who had assembled; "[233]
ACTS 16:13 evnomi,zomen proseuch,n {C} In view of the wide range of variables in lexicography, syntax, palaeography, and textual attestation, the difficulties presented by this verse are well-nigh b...
Verse Acts 16:13. _BY A RIVER SIDE, WHERE PRAYER WAS WONT TO BE MADE_] ου Οὑ ενομιζετο προσευχη ειναι, _where it was said there was a proseucha_. The proseucha was a _place_ of _prayer_, or a _place...
AND ON THE SABBATH - There is no doubt that in this city there were Jews; In the time of the apostles they were scattered extensively throughout the known world. BY A RIVER SIDE - What river this was...
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. In Derbe and Lystra again. Timotheus (Acts 16:1)._ 2. The Preaching forbidden in Asia (Acts 16:6). 3. The Vision of the Man from Macedonia (Acts 16:9). 4. The Gospel in Europe ...
PHILIPPI. LYDIA. The voyage from Troas to Samothrace was past Tenedos and Imbros, and Samothrace was about halfway. The voyage back took five days (Acts 20:6); this voyage only two, the wind being fav...
A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...
When we had set sail from Troas we had a straight run to Samothrace. On the next day we reached Neapolis and from there we came to Philippi which is the chief city of that section of Macedonia and a R...
ON THE SABBATB. on the (first) day of the sabbaths. See note on John 20:1. OUT OF. Greek. _exo,_ without. CITY. The texts read "gate". BY. RIVER SIDE. beside (Greek. _para._ App-104.) the river. No...
Preaching on the Sabbath at Philippi. Conversion and baptism of Lydia. A spirit of divination cast out by Paul. Anger of those who made gain thereby. Paul and Silas are seized, brought before the auth...
ἜΞΩ ΤΗ͂Σ ΠΎΛΗΣ with אABCD. _Vulg_. ‘foras portam.’ ἘΝΟΜΊΖΟΜΕΝ ΠΡΟΣΕΥΧῊΝ ΕἾΝΑΙ with אABC. _Vulg_. ‘videbatur oratio esse.’ 13. ΤΗ͂Ι ΤΕ ἩΜΈΡΑΙ ΤΩ͂Ν ΣΑΒΒΆΤΩΝ, _and on the sabbath_. The form of the phras...
PREACHING ON THE SABBATH AT PHILIPPI. CONVERSION AND BAPTISM OF LYDIA. A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION CAST OUT BY ST PAUL. ANGER OF THOSE WHO MADE GAIN THEREBY. PAUL AND SILAS ARE SEIZED, BROUGHT BEFORE THE A...
_THE CONVERSION OF A GOOD WOMAN NAMED LYDIA ACTS 16:13-15:_ On the Sabbath the missionary team went out by the river to a place of prayer and talked to the women there. This was a simple place of wors...
ΈΞΉΛΘΟΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 16:3. ΠΟΤΑΜΌΣ (G4215) река. Этой рекой, возможно, был Гангит (Ангит), который впадает в Стримон (Williams). Отсутствие артикля указывает на фамильярную ссылку, и...
AND ON THE SABBATH WE WENT OUT, &C.— It should seem that there were but few Jews settled in this city, and those chiefly women, who could not afford to have a synagogue; but where they could not have...
AT PHILLIPPI. Acts 16:12-40 a. A description of Philippi. Acts 16:12. Acts 16:12 and from thence to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a Roman colony: and we were in...
13-15. Upon entering this strange city, the first on the continent of Europe visited by an apostle, Paul and his companions must have looked around them with great anxiety for some opportunity to open...
And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither. AND ON THE SABBATH - the first after...
40 Silas was almost necessary as a companion for Paul. The decrees provided that they should be delivered by both Barnabas and Paul, while Judas and Silas were to confirm them by word of mouth. Now th...
WHERE PRAYER WAS WONT TO BE MADE] RV 'where we supposed there was a place of prayer' (Gk. _proseuche_). Where the Jews were too few to build a synagogue, they were wont to assemble in open-air plages...
Journey into Europe, Philippi. 6. RV 'And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia.' At Lystra (Acts 16:6) they received a...
ST. PAUL IN EUROPE 1. Timotheus] was probably of Lystra, not Derbe. His mother Eunice was perhaps a widow, and she, together with his grandmother Lois, educated the lad in the religion of Israel, tho...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 16 TIMOTHY WORKS WITH PAUL AND SILAS, 16:1-5 V1 Paul went to Derbe and then he went to Lystra. A *Christian called Timothy lived there. Timothy...
BY A RIVER SIDE, WHERE PRAYER WAS WONT TO BE MADE. — Better, _where an oratory_ (_i.e.,_ a place of prayer) _was established._ The word, which was the Greek equivalent for the Hebrew “house of prayer”...
πόλεως, see critical notes, and C. and H., p. 226, note. παρὰ ποταμόν : “by a river side,” A. and R.V., see critical notes; here Ramsay sees in the omission of the article a touch of local familiarity...
GUIDED TO NEW FIELDS Acts 16:1 Paul had a wonderful influence over young men. Timothy, Titus, and Mark bore his impress. When circumcision was insisted upon, as in the previous chapter, no one oppose...
Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in view of the recent decision of the council. Some charge him with i...
The Conversion of Lydia It customarily took ten Jewish heads of households to form a synagogue within a community. In Philippi, there was just a group of Jewish women who met by the riverside for pray...
(7) And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where (e) prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted [thither]. (7) God begins his kingdom in...
_There was prayer. [1] The Greek word signifies either prayer itself, or an oratory, or place to pray in. (Witham) --- Not every prayer is here understood, but that which was joined in the celebration...
These four Asiatic strangers, in their Oriental costume, quite a spectacle in a European city, render themselves still more conspicuous preaching daily on the street. Being native Jews both by race an...
Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, (7) After they were come to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithy...
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...
− 13._In the day of the Sabbaths. _No doubt the Jews sought some place which was solitary and by the way, when they were disposed to pray, because their religion was then everywhere most odious. And G...
There is perhaps no example of this more remarkable than that which Paul does with regard to Timothy. He uses circumcision in all liberty to set aside Jewish prejudice. It is very doubtful whether, ac...
AND ON THE SABBATH,.... That is, as the Syriac version renders it, "on the sabbath day"; the Jewish sabbath, the seventh day of the week; though the words may be rendered, "on a certain day of the wee...
And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, _and_ a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days. 13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river...
_On the sabbath we went out of the city_ The Jews usually held their religious assemblies (either by choice or constraint) at a distance from the heathen; _by a river side_ The river Strymon, which ra...
AND ON THE SABBATH WE WENT OUT OF THE CITY BY A RIVERSIDE, WHERE PRAYER WAS WONT TO BE MADE; AND WE SAT DOWN AND SPAKE UNTO THE WOMEN WHICH RESORTED THITHER. In those days of active commercial interco...
PAUL AND HIS COMPANIONS AT PHILIPPI The voyage to Philippi:...
Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who had evidently been converted through Paul on his first visit...
AND ON THE SABBATH DAY WE WENT OUT OF THE CITY TO THE RIVERSIDE, WHERE PRAYER WAS CUSTOMARILY MADE; AND WE SAT DOWN AND SPOKE TO THE WOMEN WHO MET _THERE._ 1. As Paul usually did, when the Sabbath da...
"And on the Sabbath day we went forth without the gate by. river side, where we supposed there was. place of prayer; and we sat down, and spake unto the women that were come together"On the Sabbath da...
6-15 The removals of ministers, and the dispensing the means of grace by them, are in particular under Divine conduct and direction. We must follow Providence: and whatever we seek to do, if that suf...
OLBGrk; In those places where there were not enough to build a synagogue, or could not obtain leave to do it, the Jews in those countries chose more private places to meet in, which usually were near...
13-15. Upon entering this strange city, the first on the continent of Europe visited by an apostle, Paul and his companions must have looked around them with great anxiety for some opportunity to open...
Acts 16:13 And G5037 Sabbath G4521 day G2250 went G1831 (G5627) of G1854 city G4172 to G3844 riverside...
MINISTRY IN PHILIPPI FROM THE HOUSE OF LYDIA (16:12B-40). The arrival in Europe was clearly seen by Luke as very important. He illustrates the successful ministry there by a threefold description of P...
There appear to have been no synagogues in Philippi, presumably due to the lack of the necessary ten adult male Jews who could form a synagogue, and on the Sabbath day Paul and his party, with the wri...
THE MISSION TO EUROPE (16:6-19:20). Paul's plans now seemed to begin to go awry. All doors seemed to be closing to him as in one way or another he was first hindered from going one way, and then anoth...
Acts 16:13. BY A RIVER SIDE. The Gangas, a small river which flows close to the city. It is possible that the Jews worshipped there outside the gates of the city, because the military inhabitants (Phi...
BY A RIVER SIDE (παρα ποταμον). The little river Gangites (or Gargites) was one mile west of the town. Philippi as a military outpost had few Jews. There was evidently no synagogue inside the city,...
WAS WONT might legally, that is, a legal meeting-place for Jews where there was no synagogue....
Acts 16:9. _And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us._ Our dreams often follow the leading thoughts of...
CONTENTS: Paul finds Timothy. Paul's Macedonian vision. The first convert in Europe. Demons cast out of a damsel. Paul and Silas beaten. Conversion of the Philippian jailer. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
Acts 16:1. _Then came he to Lystra,_ as in Acts 14:6. In their former labours in that city, Lois a jewess, her daughter Eunice, and Timothy her son, had embraced the faith. Now, they found Timothy gro...
TO THE RIVERSIDE. The Gangas, a small river. A Jewish place for prayer. Evidently, there was no synagogue. A few devout Jews, mostly women, met on the river banks to worship God. And talked to the wom...
_And on the Sabbath we went out of the city by a river side where prayer was wont to be made._ THE DUTY OF CHRIST’S SERVANTS WHEN FROM HOME This may be gathered from what the apostles did not do, an...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:13 Few Jews lived in Philippi. Like Lydia, the women who attended the prayer meeting may have been God-fearers and not Jews. ⇐...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:11 Philippi was the first Macedonian city in which Paul witnessed. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 16:12. THE CHIEF CITY OF THAT PART OF MACEDONIA, and A COLONY.—Better, _a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a colony—i.e._, of Rome. Macedonia was divided into four...
EXPOSITION ACTS 16:1 _And he came also _for _then came he, _A.V._ _and T.R.; _to Lystra _for _Lystra, _A.V._; Timothy _for _Timotheus, _A.V._; of a Jewess _for _of a certain woman which was a Jewess,...
We remember at the end of our study last week there arose a contention between Paul and Barnabas who had been close companions on the first missionary venture of the church. But because Barnabas was i...
Acts 13:14; Acts 13:42; Acts 17:2; Acts 18:4; Acts 20:7;...
Out of the city [ε ξ ω τ η ς π ο λ ε ω ς]. The best texts read pulhv, the gate. River. Probably the Gangas or Gangites. Where prayer was wont to be made [ο υ ε ν ο ν ι ζ ε τ ο π ρ ο σ ε υ χ η ε ι ν α...
We went out of the gate — The Jews usually held their religious assemblies (either by choice or constraint) at a distance from the heathens: by a river side — Which was also convenient for purifying t...