Acts 18:6

ἀντιτασσομένων δὲ αὐτῶν, but when they opposed themselves. The word implies a strong organized opposition. They resisted like a force drawn up for battle.

καὶ βλασφημούντων, and blasphemed. The same word is used in 2 Peter 2:2, ‘The way of truth shall be evil spoken of.’ And the same conduct, though the word is different, is described in the next chapter (Acts 19:9), ‘speaking evil of the Way before the multitude.’

ἐκτιναξάμενος τὰ ἱμάτια εἶπεν, he shook out his raiment and said. Cf. LXX. Nehemiah 3:13, καὶ τὴν�. The act is figurative of entire renunciation. Nothing which pertained to them should cling to him. In like manner he would cast them from his thoughts. Cf. Acts 13:51.

τὸ αἶμα ὑμῶν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ὑμῶν, your blood be upon your own heads. For the phrase cf. LXX. 2 Samuel 1:16; 1 Kings 2:37; Ezekiel 33:4. The verb to be supplied is ἔστω or ἐλθέτω. The Apostle uses the O.T. expression ‘blood’ in the figurative sense of ‘destruction.’

εἰς τὰ ἔθνη πορεύσομαι, I will go unto the Gentiles, i.e. the Gentiles in Corinth. For in his future preaching elsewhere (see Acts 19:8) he addressed the Jews and went to the synagogue, as had been his custom from the first.