When Silas and Timothy arrive from the North, Paul was straightened in the Word, testifying to Jews and Greeks that “Jesus is the Christ.” The meaning of that statement is simply this: he has preached till he has developed a positive issue, so that something has to break, and the prophetic eye of Paul saw what was coming, as we have described in the next verse.
ACTS 18:5 lo,gw| {B} The expression that Paul sunei,ceto tw|/ lo,gw| (“was wholly absorbed with preaching,” so Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich-Danker) seems to have been misunderstood, so that pneu,mati was eit...
Verse Acts 18:5. _WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS WERE COME_] We have seen, Acts 17:13, that when Paul was obliged to leave Berea, because of the persecution raised up against him in that place, he left Sil...
AND WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS ... - They came to Paul according to the request which he had sent by the brethren who accompanied him from Thessalonica, Acts 17:15. PAUL WAS PRESSED - Was urged; was bo...
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...
AND. Now. WERE COME. came down. WAS PRESSED, &C. Read, was engrossed with or by (Greek. _en)_ the word, i.e. his testimony. SPIRIT. All thetexts read "word" (Greek. _logos_. App-121.10). AND TESTI...
_And_( BUT) _when Silas and Timotheus were come_( CAME DOWN) _from Macedonia_ The particle at the beginning of the verse is better regarded as adversative. We have in this verse an account of a change...
ΛΌΓΩΙ for πνεύματι with אABDE. _Vulg_. ‘verbo.’ ΕἾΝΑΙ added after ἸΟΥΔΑΊΟΙΣ with אABD. _Vulg._ ‘esse.’ 5. ὩΣ ΔῈ ΚΑΤΗ͂ΛΘΟΝ … Ὁ ΤΙΜΌΘΕΟΣ, _but when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia_. After th...
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...
ΚΑΤΉΛΘΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2718) спускаться, ΣΥΝΕΊΧΕΤΟ _impf. ind. med. от_ ΣΥΝΈΧΩ (G4912) удерживать крепко, хватать, созывать; _med._ посвящать себя, быть занятым, быть поглощенным ч...
AND WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS WERE COME, &C.— St. Paul was at Corinth some time before his two assistants came up to him, and so long he frequented the synagogue; but when Timothy was come from Thessal...
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...
See notes on verse 4...
And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. AND WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS WERE COME FROM MACEDONIA - that...
3 While in Thessalonica he had been supported partly by gifts from Philippi, but now he engaged in tentmaking as a means of. livelihood. During his early days in Corinth his heart was continually occu...
18:5 of (a-16) Or 'earnestly occupied with.' The Greek word is the same as 'constrains,' 2 Corinthians 5:14 . Christ. (b-27) Lit. 'the Christ Jesus;' i.e. the Christ was really come, and that Jesus wa...
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...
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...
SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS] see Acts 17:15. They brought money with them, so that Paul no longer worked with his hands, but gave himself entirely to preaching (2 Corinthians 11:9; Philippians 4:15). Was pres...
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 WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS WERE COME FROM MACEDONIA. — We learn from 1 Thessalonians 2:18, that the latter had come to St. Paul at Athens, but had been almost immediately sent back to Thessalonica t...
See note on Acts 17:15; McGiffert, _Apostolic Age_, p. 269, recognises this among the striking points of contact between Acts and the Epistles to the Corinthians. Here Silas and Timothy are said to ha...
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...
Preaching in Corinth Following his normal pattern, Paul first preached in the synagogue in Corinth. During that time, Silas and Timothy once again joined the apostle's company. Silas may have come fro...
And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul (c) was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews [that] Jesus [was] Christ. (c) Was very much grieved in mind: by which is signifie...
No further mention is made of Silas in these Acts. Some martyrologists think he died in Macedonia by martyrdom. He is honoured in the Church as a saint, and sometimes, as well as St. Barnabas, obtains...
And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. (6) And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his...
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...
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 WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS WERE COME FROM MACEDONIA,.... Not from Berea in Macedonia, for from hence they came to the apostle while at Athens, and from whence he sent them, at least Timothy, to Thes...
And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews _that_ Jesus _was_ Christ. Ver. 5. _And when Silas and Timothy_] Good people one kindl...
_And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia_ Silas seems to have stayed a considerable time at Berea; but Timotheus, having come to the apostle while he was at Athens, and having been sent...
PRESSED IN THE SPIRIT; distressed in view of the condition of the Jews, and powerfully moved to preach to them the gospel....
AND WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS WERE COME FROM MACEDONIA, PAUL WAS PRESSED IN THE SPIRIT, AND TESTIFIED TO THE JEWS THAT JESUS WAS CHRIST....
PAUL AT CORINTH. Aquila and Priscilla and the beginning of the work:...
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...
WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHY HAD COME FROM MACEDONIA, PAUL WAS COMPELLED BY THE SPIRIT, AND TESTIFIED TO THE JEWS _THAT_ JESUS _IS_ THE CHRIST. 1. Part of the team is back together. Silas and Timothy, who...
"But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ"Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia" The Roman province...
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...
WERE COME FROM MACEDONIA; according as was ordered by him, ACTS 17:14,15. PRESSED IN THE SPIRIT; more than ordinarily affected, the Spirit of God influencing his spirit, so that he felt an anguish or...
Acts 18:5 G1161 When G5613 G5037 Silas G4609 and G2532 Timothy G5095 come G2718 (G5627) from...
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...
‘But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.' The arrival of Silas and Timothy from Macedonia, no doubt at...
Acts 18:5. AND WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS WERE COME FROM MACEDONIA, PAUL WAS PRESSED IN THE SPIRIT, AND TESTIFIED TO THE JEWS THAT JESUS WAS CHRIST. The older MSS., instead of the words τω ͂ͅ πνευ ́ ματ...
WAS CONSTRAINED BY THE WORD (συνειχετο τω λογω). This is undoubtedly the correct text and not τω πνευματ of the Textus Receptus, but συνειχετο is in my opinion the direct middle imperfect indicative...
PRESSED Or, constrained by the Word. Compare (2 Corinthians 5:14)....
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...
WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHY ARRIVED. They had stayed at Berea (Acts 17:14), but Paul had sent for them to join him. Timothy must have joined him at Athens, and been immediately sent back to Thessalonica (1...
_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...
_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...
_And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit (R._., BY THE WORD). ENTHUSIASM JUSTIFIED 1. Different effects are produced in different minds by the proclamati...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:5 Paul apparently had sent SILAS AND TIMOTHY from Athens to visit the Macedonian churches (see note on 17:15). When they rejoined Paul in Corinth, they probably brought a contribu...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of witness on his second journey. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:5. PRESSED IN SPIRIT.—According to the oldest authorities this should be _was held together by the word_, συνείχετο τῷ λόγῳ—_i.e._, either earnestly occupied with the busin...
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 Peter 5:12; 1 Thessalonians 3:2; 2 Corinthians 5:14; Acts 17:14;...
Was pressed in the spirit [σ υ ν ε ι χ ε τ ο τ ω π ν ε υ μ α τ ι]. Instead of spirit the best texts read logw, by the word. On pressed or constrained, see note on taken, Luke 4:38. The meaning is, Pau...
And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia — Silas seems to have stayed a considerable time at Berea: but Timotheus had come to the apostle while he was at Athens, and been sent by him to c...