A Jew named Aquila. Some think the term "Jew" shows he was not yet a Christian. Johnson thinks both Aquila and Priscilla became Christians at Corinth. Yet Paul may mention that this man was a Jew, only to account for the fact he had just come from Italy.
ACTS 18:2-4 The original form of the Western text, which in verses Acts 18:2 and Acts 18:3 codex Bezae presents in a form somewhat accommodated to the A...
Verse Acts 18:2. _A CERTAIN JEW NAMED AQUILA_] Some have supposed that this Aquila was the same with the Onkelos, mentioned by the Jews. See the article in Wolfius, Bibl. Hebr. vol. ii. p. 1147. We h...
AND FOUND A CERTAIN JEW - Aquila is mentioned elsewhere as the friend of Paul, Romans 16:3; 2 Timothy 4:19; 1 Corinthians 16:19. Though a Jew by birth, yet it is evident that he became a c
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...
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...
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...
FOUND. having found. CERTAIN. Greek. _tis._ App-123. NAMED. by name. AQUILA. See Romans 16:3. 1Co 16:19. 2 Timothy 4:19. BORN, &C. =. Pontian by race. LATELY. Greek. _prosphatos._ Only here. The a...
_a certain Jew named Aquila_ The name _Aquila_is a Latin word, and it is not likely that this was the man's Jewish name, but as the custom was among the Jews, he had probably assumed a Roman name duri...
ἸΟΥΔΑΙ͂ΟΝ ὈΝΌΜΑΤΙ ἈΚΎΛΑΝ _a Jew named Aquila_. The name _Aquila_ is Latin, and it is not likely that this was the man’s Jewish name, but as the custom was among the Jews, he had probably assumed a Rom...
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...
_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...
ΕΎΡΩΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΕΎΡΊΣΚΩ (G2147) находить, ΟΝΌΜΑΤΙ _dat. sing. от_ ΌΝΟΜΑ (G3686) имя. _Instr. dat._ (RG, 487), или _dat._ уважения (BD, 105): "именуемый" "по имени". Об именах _см._...
TO CORINTH;— Achaia Propria was a part of Greece, and _Corinth_ the metropolis of Achaia Propria. It was a famous mart town; for, by standing in the middle of the isthmus, it had the trade of both the...
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...
2, 3. Paul entered this large city a stranger, alone, and penniless. What little means he had brought with him from Macedonia was exhausted, and his first attention was directed to the supply of his d...
And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. AND FO...
19 The hill called the Areopagus (Latin, Mars' Hill), just a few steps above the Market Place, was a most fitting forum for the folly of God to defeat the wisdom of the world. At Rome Paul's weakness...
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...
AQUILA.. PRISCILLA] As Aquila and Priscilla (Prisca) are not said to have been converted by Paul, they were probably already Christians. The edict of the emperor Claudius (about 52 a.d.) which expelle...
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...
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 FOUND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED AQUILA, BORN IN PONTUS. — The name presents some interesting associations. Strictly speaking, the Greek form is _Ahylas,_ but this is undoubtedly the transliterated form...
Ἀκύλαν, _cf._ Acts 18:18; Romans 16:3; 1 Corinthians 16:19; 2 Timothy 4:19 : the Latin _Aquila_ in its Greek form; the name may have
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...
Tentmaking With Aquila and Priscilla In Corinth, Paul found two Jews, Aquila, who was from Pontus which was a province between Bithynia and Armenia, and his wife Priscilla, who was also known as Prisc...
And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that (a) Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. (a)...
Fortunately Aquila and Priscilla, devout Jews, driven from Rome by the Emperor Claudius, also experts in tent building, fall in with him, becoming his first converts to the Christhood of Jesus and swe...
After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth; (2) And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; because that (Claudius had...
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...
− 2._A Jew called Aquila. _This was no small trial, in that Paul findeth none at Corinthus to lodge him save Aquila, who had been twice exiled. For being born in Pontus, he forsook his country, and sa...
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 FOUND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED AQUILA,.... This seems to have been his Roman name, which he had took, or was given him, while he was at Rome; very likely his Jewish name was נשד, "Nesher", which signif...
And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. Ver. 2....
_And found a certain Jew_ Afterward converted to the faith of Christ, (Acts 18:26,) doubtless by the instrumentality of Paul; _born in Pontus_ A province of the Lesser Asia, not far from Galatia and C...
PONTUS; the north-eastern province of Asia Minor. CLAUDIUS; the Roman emperor, who reigned from A.D. 41 to 54....
PAUL AT CORINTH. Aquila and Priscilla and the beginning of the work:...
AND FOUND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED AQUILA, BORN IN PONTUS, LATELY COME FROM ITALY, WITH HIS WIFE PRISCILLA, (BECAUSE THAT CLAUDIUS HAD COMMANDED ALL JEWS TO DEPART FROM ROME,) AND CAME UNTO THEM....
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 FOUND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED AQUILA, BORN IN PONTUS, WHO HAD RECENTLY COME FROM ITALY WITH HIS WIFE PRISCILLA (BECAUSE CLAUDIUS HAD COMMANDED ALL THE JEWS TO DEPART FROM ROME); AND HE CAME TO THEM...
"And he found. certain Jew named Aquila,. man of Pontus by race, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome: and he came unto them...
1-6 Though Paul was entitled to support from the churches he planted, and from the people to whom he preached, yet he worked at his calling. An honest trade, by which a man may get his bread, is not...
PONTUS; a country between Cappadocia and the Black Sea, ACTS 2:9, whither the progenitors of Aquila, in one of the dispersions, might flee from Judea to inhabit there. CLAUDIUS; the Roman emperor, who...
2, 3. Paul entered this large city a stranger, alone, and penniless. What little means he had brought with him from Macedonia was exhausted, and his first attention was directed to the supply of his d...
Acts 18:2 And G2532 found G2147 (G5631) certain G5100 Jew G2453 named G3686 Aquila G207 born G1085 Pontus...
We are not told whether they formed a partnership, or whether Paul worked for Aquila as an employee, but they worked together as tentmakers/leatherworkers. It was customary for a Rabbi to have learned...
‘And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome.' On arrival in Cori...
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...
Acts 18:2. AND FOUND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED AQUILA, BORN IN PONTUS, LATELY COME FROM ITALY, WITH HIS WIFE PRISCILLA. It seems, on the whole, probable that Aquila and Priscilla two great names in early Ch...
AQUILA (Ακυλαν). Luke calls him a Jew from Pontus, apparently not yet a disciple, though there were Jews from Pontus at the great Pentecost who were converted (Acts 2:9). Aquila who made the famous...
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...
_And found a certain Jew named Aquila … with his wife Priscilla._ AQUILA AND PRISCILLA No book is less systematic than the Bible, yet none has so complete a code of faith and duty. Its statements of...
_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...
_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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:2 Claudius’s expulsion of the JEWS from ROME in A.D. 49 seems to have resulted from trouble in the synagogues created by the Christian message. AQUILA and...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of witness on his second journey. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:1. PAUL.—Omitted in the best texts. How long the Apostle stayed in Athens—Weiseler suggests fourteen days; Ramsay, three or four weeks—and how he CAME TO CORINTH, whether b...
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...
1 Corinthians 16:19; 1 Peter 1:1; 2 Timothy 4:19; Acts 11:28; Acts 2:9
Lately [π ρ ο σ φ α τ ω ς]. Only here in New Testament, though the kindred adjective, rendered new, is found in Hebrews 10:20. It is derived from fenw, to slay, and the adjective means, originally, la...
Claudius, the Roman emperor, had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome — All who were Jews by birth. Whether they were Jews or Christians by religion, the Romans were too stately to regard....
The apostle being now come to Corinth, where he was altogether. stranger, and wanting money for his subsistence, the providence of God directed him to the house of Aquila and Priscilla; who being of t...