Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Acts 18:7

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 own lodging, he still remained with Aquila and Priscilla. Some MSS. give the name Titus (or Titius) Justus to this man, and the double name is adopted in the Revised Version, but there is good authority for the Text. recept.

σεβομένου τὸν θεόν, one that worshipped God. He was a proselyte. See above on Acts 13:43; Acts 17:4. The house of Justus was therefore an appropriate place in which both Jews and Gentiles might meet, and to which Gentiles would be more ready to come than to that of a Jew by birth.

οὗ ἡ οἱκία … τῇ συναγωγῇ, whose house joined hard to the synagogue. It is likely that St Paul though he came no more to the synagogue at Corinth, chose not to betake himself far away, because he would be ready to receive any of his brethren who might change their feelings and come to him. On this cf. Chrysostom’s language: ὅρα πῶς πάλιν εἰπών, ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν, οὐδέ οὕτως αὐτῶν�. ὥστε τοῦ διεγεῖραι ἕνεκεν εἶπε τοῦτο. καὶ λοιπὸν ἧλθε πρὸς Ἰοῦστον, οὗ ἦν ἡ οἰκία ὁμοροῦσα τῇ συναγωγῇ. ἐγειτνίαζεν ὥστε καὶ ζῆλον ἔχειν�.

But we can see how, while his near neighbourhood gave opportunity for this, the meetings of those who came to the synagogue with those who were going to the house of Justus, would be likely to cause bitterness, especially when the number of St Paul’s adherents began to increase, and a ruler of the synagogue was counted among them.

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