πορεύθητι … εἰπέ : the quotation is accurately taken from the LXX, Isaiah 6:9-10, and the first line is additional to the words otherwise given in full by St. Matthew; as the speaker is the messenger to the Jews who condemns this hardness of heart, he applies to himself the word πορ.
Verse Acts 28:26. _HEARING YE SHALL HEAR_, c.] See the notes on Matthew 13:14, and John 12:39, John 12:40....
SAYING ... - See this passage explained in the Matthew 13:14 note, and John 12:39 notes....
CHAPTER 28 _ 1. In the Island of Melita (Acts 28:1)._ 2. The arrival in Rome (Acts 28:11). 3. Paul calling the chief of the Jews and his message (Acts 28:17). Melita, which means “honey,” is the is...
THE JEWS ARE HARDENED. It was a numerous meeting; we can scarcely understand the words to mean that more came the second time than the first. The kingdom of God is a wide phrase for the Christian doct...
When we arrived in Rome, permission was given to Paul to stay in his own house with the soldier who was his guard. After three days he invited the leaders of the Jews to come to see him. When they had...
WELCOME AT MALTA (Acts 28:1-6)...
HEARING. In hearing. Greek. _ak_. _e_. Compare Acts 17:20. NOT. by no means. Greek. _ou me._ App-105. UNDERSTAND. Greek. _suniemi._ Compare App-132. SEEING... SEE. Greek. _blepo_. App-133. PERCEIV...
_saying_, &c. The passage which the Apostle quotes is from Isaiah 6:9, and had already been quoted by our Lord himself against the Jews (Matthew 13:14; Mark 4:12; Luk
ST PAUL’S INTERVIEW WITH THE JEWS IN ROME...
ΛΈΓΩΝ with אBLP. 26. ΛΈΓΩΝ, _saying_. The passage which the Apostle quotes is from Isaiah 6:9, and had already been quoted by our Lord Himself against the Jews (Matthew 13:14; Mark 4:12;...
_PAUL REMAINED A PRISONER AT ROME ACTS 28:23-31:_ Many Jews came to Paul's house. He used the Law and the Prophets to talk to them about God's kingdom (church). His goal was to "persuade them concerni...
ΠΟΡΕΎΘΗΤΙ _aor. imper. pass. (dep.) от_ ΠΟΡΕΎΟΜΑΙ (G4198) идти, ΕΊΠΌΝ _aor. imper. act., см._ Acts 28:4. ΆΚΟ (G189) _dat. sing._ слух. _Dat._ образа действия, перевод_евр. inf. abs._, эмфатическое в...
AT ROME. Acts 28:16-31. Acts 28:16 And when we entered into Rome, Paul was suffered to abide by himself with the soldier that guarded him. Acts 28:17 And it came to pass, that after three days he c...
See notes on verse 25...
Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shal...
9 Three months busy with blessing thus came out of the catastrophe. Had the ship wintered in Cnidus, as they had wished, or at Ideal Harbors, as Paul proposed, the ship and cargo might indeed have bee...
28:26 Go (b-1) See Isaiah 6:9-10 ....
ENTERED, etc.] We may freely translate this difficult passage thus: 'He entered into the Temple, informing the priests that within seven days (see Acts 21:27) the days of their purification would be a...
ST. PAUL IN ROME (28:16-31) 16. The captain of the guard] either the captain of the prætorian guard (_proefectus proetorio_), or, more probably, the captain of the troops called _frumentarii_, whose...
ST. PAUL A PRISONER AT ROME 1. They.. they] RV 'we.. we.' MELITA] RM 'Melitene.' Melita is certainly Malta, and not (as has been erroneously supposed) Meleda off the Illyrian coast. Tradition correct...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 28 ON THE ISLAND CALLED MALTA, 28:1-10 V1 We arrived on the shore. We discovered that the island was called Malta. V2 The people who lived ther...
GO UNTO THIS PEOPLE, AND SAY ... — On the passage thus quoted see Notes on Matthew 13:14. Here we are chiefly concerned with the fact that the words had been cited by our Lord as describing the spirit...
PREACHING IN THE WORLD'S CAPITAL Acts 28:21 It was one of the earliest cares of Paul to summon the leading members of the Jewish community, that he might explain to them his position. He made clear t...
On land new perils threatened. While gathering sticks for a fire, a viper fastened on the apostle's hand. Shaking it off, he was unharmed. This convinced those who watched that he was divine, and they...
After three days in Rome, Paul called for the leaders of the Jews. He explained to them that he was in Rome because of charges brought against him by their brethren in Jerusalem. The authorities had w...
(14) Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: (14) The unbelievers willingly resist the truth, and yet not by...
And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, a...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
− 26._Go to this people. _This is a notable place, because it is cited six times in the New Testament, ( Matthew 13:14; John 12:40; Romans 11:8; Mark 4:12;...
At Melita we find him again exercising his accustomed power among that barbarous people. One sees that God is with him. Evangelisation does not, however, appear in the account of his sojourn there, or...
SAYING, GO UNTO THIS PEOPLE, AND SAY,.... A message sent in wrath and judgment to the people of Israel, rejected from being the people of God, a "lo ammi" being written upon them; and therefore God do...
Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: Ver. 26. _Hearing, ye shall hear, &c._] A heavy ear is a singular jud...
_And some believed the things which were spoken_ Were happily persuaded of the truth of Paul's doctrine, and were induced to embrace Christianity; _and some_ On the other hand, were so much under the...
A word from Isaiah applied:...
SAYING, GO UNTO THIS PEOPLE AND SAY, HEARING YE SHALL HEAR AND SHALL NOT UNDERSTAND, AND SEEING YE SHALL SEE AND NOT PERCEIVE;...
Very soon contacting inhabitants, they found that the island was called Melita, present day Malta. The people are called "barbarous," which only means they were not Greek or Jewish -- not the cultured...
SO WHEN THEY DID NOT AGREE AMONG THEMSELVES, THEY DEPARTED AFTER PAUL HAD SAID ONE WORD: " THE HOLY SPIRIT SPOKE RIGHTLY THROUGH ISAIAH THE PROPHET TO OUR FATHERS, 26 saying, " Go to this people and...
23-31 Paul persuaded the Jews concerning Jesus. Some were wrought upon by the word, and others hardened; some received the light, and others shut their eyes against it. And the same has always been t...
As their fathers did hear the many prophecies concerning the miseries and calamities which for their sins were to come upon them, as also concerning the Messiah which was to come, but did not believe...
25-28. From what follows, we have reason to suppose that the unbelieving party gave some unbecoming expression to their sentiments. (25) "_ And disagreeing among themselves, they dispersed, Paul sayin...
Tertullian On Fasting Through them, to wit, had "the heart of the People been made thick, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with a heart"[36] Methodius Orati...
Acts 28:26 saying G3004 (G5723) Go G4198 (G5676) to G4314 this G5126 people G2992 and G2532 say...
‘And when they did not agree among themselves, they departed after that Paul had spoken one word, “Well spoke the Holy Spirit through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers, saying, Go you to this people,...
Acts 28:26. SAYING, GO UNTO THIS PEOPLE, AND SAY. HEARING YE SHALL HEAR, AND SHALL NOT UNDERSTAND; AND SEEING YE SHALL SEE, AND NOT PERCEIVE. The stern prediction originally occurs in a sublime passag...
SAY (ειπον). Second aorist active imperative instead of the old form ειπε. The quotation is from Isaiah 6:9; Isaiah 6:10. This very passage is quoted by Jesus (Matthew 13:14;...
Acts 28:1. _And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita. And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, bec...
CONTENTS: The landing at Melita. Miracle of the viper's bite. Healing of Publius' father. Paul's arrival at Rome and his ministry there to the Jews. Paul turns to the Gentiles. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Hol...
Acts 28:1. _Melita,_ now Malta. This island seems to have been inhabited by runaways, for _melim,_ in the language of Carthage, is to escape. It was inhabited by a colony of refugees from Carthage, a...
SO THEY SET A DATE WITH PAUL. A large number came to hear what he would say. HE TRIED TO CONVINCE THEM. Paul used the Law of Moses and the writings of the prophets to preach Christ to them. SOME OF TH...
_Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand._ JUDICIAL HARDNESS The passage from which the apostle quotes is Isaiah 6:1, where the prophet received a special commission and was forewarned that h...
_And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging._ PAUL’S SECOND CONFERENCE WITH THE JEWS Note-- I. The interesting character of his preaching. It was-- 1. Evangelic...
_And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard._ ROME AS SEEN BY PAUL Within a circuit of little more than twelve miles more than two millions of inhabit...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 28:26 Isaiah 6:9 is quoted here (compare Matthew 13:14). The HEART
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 28:23. INTO his LODGING.—Probably the “hired dwelling,” μίσθωμα, of Acts 28:30, though some (Heschyius, Hackett) consider the term ξενία points to a private house—perhaps that...
EXPOSITION ACTS 28:1 We for _they, _A.V. and T.R. (twice). WAS CALLED. It reads as if it was the answer to their question to the natives, "What is this island called?" MELITA. That Melita is the isla...
Tonight we'd like to just go through the twenty-eighth chapter of Acts and finish this book so that next Sunday night we move into the first two Chapter s of Romans. That's your reading assignment for...
2 Corinthians 4:4; Deuteronomy 29:4; Ezekiel 12:2; Ezekiel 3:6;...
Hearing ye shall hear — That is, ye shall most surely hear, and shall not understand — The words manifestly denote a judicial blindness, consequent upon a wilful and obstinate resistance of the truth....