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Verse Acts 16:23. _LAID MANY STRIPES UPON THEM_] The Jews never gave
more than thirty-nine stripes to any criminal; but the Romans had no
law relative to this: they gave as many as they chose; and th...
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AND WHEN THEY HAD LAID MANY STRIPES ON THEM - The Jews were by law
prohibited from inflicting more than 40 stripes, and usually inflicted
but 39, 2 Corinthians 11:24. But there was no such law among t...
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CHAPTER 16
_ 1. In Derbe and Lystra again. Timotheus (Acts 16:1)._
2. The Preaching forbidden in Asia (Acts 16:6).
3. The Vision of the Man from Macedonia (Acts 16:9).
4. The Gospel in Europe ...
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IMPRISONMENT OF PAUL AND SILAS. THE PRISON BROKEN. The rulers (Acts
16:19) are the heads of police; they are afterwards called _Strategi,
which_ answers to the Roman _Prœ tores._ Philippi was a colony...
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When we were on our way to the place of prayer.. it happened that a
certain slave-girl who had a spirit which made her able to give
oracles met us. By her soothsaying she provided much gain for her
ow...
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A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...
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STRIPES. Greek. _plege._ Four times translated "wound", five times
"stripe", and twelve times "plague".
CHARGING. Same as "command" in Acts 16:18.
JAILOR. Greek. _desmophulax,_ i.e. keeper of the pri...
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_cast them into prison_ So that they should have no chance of teaching
any longer. They appear (see Acts 16:35) to have intended to keep them
one night in prison and then to turn them out of the city....
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ἜΒΑΛΟΝ ΕἸΣ ΦΥΛΑΚΉΝ, _they cast them into prison_. So
that they should have no chance of teaching any longer. They appear
(see Acts 16:35) to have intended to keep them one night in prison and
then to...
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PREACHING ON THE SABBATH AT PHILIPPI. CONVERSION AND BAPTISM OF LYDIA.
A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION CAST OUT BY ST PAUL. ANGER OF THOSE WHO MADE
GAIN THEREBY. PAUL AND SILAS ARE SEIZED, BROUGHT BEFORE THE
A...
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_THE CONVERSION OF THE JAILER IN PHILIPPI ACTS 16:16-40:_ At a place
of prayer in Philippi Paul and Silas came across a girl that had a
spirit of divination. Her masters made a lot of money from her p...
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ΈΠΙΘΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΠΙΤΊΘΗΜΙ
(G2007) класть,
ΈΒΑΛΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΒΆΛΛΩ (G906) бросать,
ΦΥΛΑΚΉ (G5438) место заключения, тюрьма.
Человека заключали в тюрьму, пока его
не до...
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AT PHILLIPPI. Acts 16:12-40
a.
A description of Philippi. Acts 16:12.
Acts 16:12
and from thence to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first
of the district, a Roman colony: and we were in...
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See notes on verse 22...
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And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into
prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
AND WHEN THEY HAD LAID MANY STRIPES UPON THEM - the bleeding wounds
from which w...
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19 This is the first occasion in which the evangel comes into conflict
with the religion of the nations and with the spirit powers back of
it. Hitherto the Jews and Judaism opposed the evangel. At Lys...
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Journey into Europe, Philippi.
6. RV 'And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having
been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia.' At Lystra
(Acts 16:6) they received a...
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ST. PAUL IN EUROPE
1. Timotheus] was probably of Lystra, not Derbe. His mother Eunice was
perhaps a widow, and she, together with his grandmother Lois, educated
the lad in the religion of Israel, tho...
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 16
TIMOTHY WORKS WITH PAUL AND SILAS, 16:1-5
V1 Paul went to Derbe and then he went to Lystra. A *Christian called
Timothy lived there. Timothy...
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AND WHEN THEY HAD LAID MANY STRIPES UPON THEM. — The words imply a
punishment of more than usual severity, such as would leave their
backs lacerated and bleeding. So in 1 Thessalonians 2:2, St. Paul
s...
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δεσμοφύλακι, Lucian, _Tox._, 30; Jos., _Ant._, ii., 5, 1,
LXX ἀρχιδεσμοφύλαξ, Genesis 39:21-23; Genesis 40:3 A,
Genesis 41:10 A (_cf._ the word ἀρχισωματοφύλαξ,
Deissmann, _Neue Bibelstudien_, p. 93)....
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WELCOMED; ATTESTED; IMPRISONED
Acts 16:14
This was an epoch-making moment, but how quietly it is recorded. There
was no heralding of the gospel which was to transform Europe. The need
for it was uns...
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Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found
Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in
view of the recent decision of the council. Some charge him with
i...
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Paul and Silas Imprisoned
Luke reported that the group went for prayer, possibly daily. A slave
girl who was demon possessed followed them crying out, "These men are
the servants of the Most High God,...
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After the demon has evacuated the damsel, she has no more power to
tell fortunes and practice divination than any other person.
Consequently, her owners, seeing that they can get no more money for
her...
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And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they
caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the
rulers, (20) And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These...
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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...
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23._That he should keep them safe. _Whereas the magistrates command
that Paul and Silas should be kept so diligently, it was done to this
end, that they might know more of the matter. For they had a...
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There is perhaps no example of this more remarkable than that which
Paul does with regard to Timothy. He uses circumcision in all liberty
to set aside Jewish prejudice. It is very doubtful whether, ac...
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AND WHEN THEY HAD LAID MANY STRIPES UPON THEM,.... Even above measure,
as in 2 Corinthians 11:35.
THEY CAST THEM INTO PRISON; designing doubtless to inflict some
greater punishment upon them, after t...
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And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast _them_ into
prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
Ver. 23. _Laid many stripes_] These were those marks of the Lord
Jesus which the...
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_And the multitude rose up against them_ Excited and inflamed by these
accusations; _and the magistrates_ Or the pretors; _rent off their
clothes_ That is, the clothes of Paul and Silas; for such was...
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AND WHEN THEY HAD LAID MANY STRIPES UPON THEM, THEY CAST THEM INTO
PRISON, CHARGING THE JAILER TO KEEP THEM SAFELY;...
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Paul and Silas imprisoned:...
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Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted
before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who
had evidently been converted through Paul on his first visit...
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"And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into
prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely" "The Roman custom
depended on the whims of the judge; it was. severe ordeal" (Boles...
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16-24 Satan, though the father of lies, will declare the most
important truths, when he can thereby serve his purposes. But much
mischief is done to the real servants of Christ, by unholy and false
p...
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LAID MANY STRIPES UPON THEM; partly by the lictors or executioners,
and partly by the furious rabble. THE JAILER; this jailer's name (of
whose conversion we read hereafter) was Stephanas, as may appea...
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Acts 16:23 And G5037 laid G2007 (G5631) many G4183 stripes G4127 them
G846 threw G906 (G5627) into...
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‘And when they had laid many stripes on them, they cast them into
prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely, who, having received
such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their f...
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ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT LEAD TO ADDITIONS TO THE CHURCH IN PHILIPPI
(16:19-34).
But the problem was that what he had done would hit at men's pockets.
They did not care about the girl herself, they had...
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MINISTRY IN PHILIPPI FROM THE HOUSE OF LYDIA (16:12B-40).
The arrival in Europe was clearly seen by Luke as very important. He
illustrates the successful ministry there by a threefold description
of P...
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Acts 16:23. AND COMMANDED TO BEAT THEM. ACTS 16:23. AND WHEN THEY HAD
LAID MANY STRIPES UPON THEM. Literally, ‘to beat them with rods.'
The custom was with the Romans to inflict the blows with rods up...
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WHEN THEY HAD LAID
(επιθεντες). Second aorist (constative) active participle of
επιτιθημ, to place upon.MANY STRIPES
(πολλας πληγας). The Jewish law was forty stripes save one
(2 Corinthians 11:24...
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Acts 16:9. _And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a
man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia,
and help us._
Our dreams often follow the leading thoughts of...
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CONTENTS: Paul finds Timothy. Paul's Macedonian vision. The first
convert in Europe. Demons cast out of a damsel. Paul and Silas beaten.
Conversion of the Philippian jailer.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
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Acts 16:1. _Then came he to Lystra,_ as in Acts 14:6. In their former
labours in that city, Lois a jewess, her daughter Eunice, and Timothy
her son, had embraced the faith. Now, they found Timothy gro...
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AFTER A SEVERE BEATING. The Law of Moses regulated whipping
(Deuteronomy 25:3; 2 Corinthians 11:24). Romans had no such
restriction. THE INNER CELL. A damp cell, with no source of light,
used for "sol...
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_And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone._
APOSTOLIC DUTY AND VICISSITUDES
I. Christ’s servants will use whatever power they possess to set the
slaves of Satan free. Paul did n...
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_A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination._
THE PYTHONESS
The words, literally, are as in the margin, a spirit of Python, or, as
some MSS. give it, a Python spirit. The Python was the s...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:11 Philippi was the first Macedonian city in
which Paul witnessed.
⇐ ⇔...
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 16:19. THE RULERS, ἄρχοντες, were the town magistrates
(Luke 12:58).
Acts 16:20. The MAGISTRATES, στρατηγοί, were the two chief
civic authorities (dunmviri) in a Roman colony...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 16:1
_And he came also _for _then came he, _A.V._ _and T.R.; _to Lystra
_for _Lystra, _A.V._; Timothy _for _Timotheus, _A.V._; of a Jewess
_for _of a certain woman which was a Jewess,...
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We remember at the end of our study last week there arose a contention
between Paul and Barnabas who had been close companions on the first
missionary venture of the church. But because Barnabas was i...
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1 Samuel 23:22; 1 Samuel 23:23; 2 Timothy 2:9; Acts 12:18; Acts 12:4;...
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Prison. See on ch. verse 21....
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They laid many stripes upon them — Either they did not immediately
say they were Romans, or in the tumult it was not regarded. Charging
the jailer — Perhaps rather to quiet the people than because the...