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Verse 34. _THESE HANDS HAVE MINISTERED_, c.] It was neither "_sin_
nor _discredit_" for the apostle to work to maintain himself, when the
circumstances of the Church were such that it could not suppo...
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YEA, YE YOURSELVES KNOW - By your own acquaintance with my manner of
life. In Corinth he had lived and labored with Apollos (note, Acts
18:3); and he refers elsewhere to the fact that he had supported...
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CHAPTER 20
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1. Paul in Macedonia (Acts 20:1).
2. His abode in Greece, the visit to Troas and what transpired there
(Acts 20:3).
3. The journey from Troas to Miletus (Acts 20:13).
4. The farewell...
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CONCLUSION.
Acts 20:32. Read _mg.___
Acts 20:33. _Cf._ 2 Corinthians 12:14 f., 1 Corinthians 4:12
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PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE ELDERS OF EPHESUS AT MILETUS. See Ramsay, art.
Miletus in HDB, as to the difficulties of the journey at that period
from Miletus to Ephesus; one had to sail to Priene and make fro...
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SETTING OUT FOR JERUSALEM (Acts 20:1-6)...
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From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus and summoned the elders of the
church. When they were with him he said to them, "You yourselves know
how, from the first day I came into Asia, I spent all the time,...
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KNOW. Greek. _ginosko._ App-132.
HAVE MINISTERED. ministered. Greek. _hupereteo._ App-190. See note on
Acts 13:36.
NECESSITIES. needs. Compare Acts 2:45....
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_Yea, ye yourselves know_ The oldest texts omit "Yea." The working in
company with Aquila and Priscilla, which the Apostle began in Corinth,
was probably continued when they came together to Ephesus,...
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ΑΥ̓ΤΟῚ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΕΤΕ, _ye yourselves know_. The working in
company with Aquila and Priscilla, which the Apostle began in Corinth,
was probably continued when they came together to Ephesus, and so the
Apos...
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PAUL SENDS FOR THE ELDERS FROM EPHESUS, GIVES THEM HIS PARTING CHARGE,
AND LEAVES MILETUS...
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_PAUL VISITED WITH THE ELDERS FROM EPHESUS ACTS 20:17-38:_ Paul called
for the Elders from the church at Ephesus to meet with him at Miletus.
He reminded them that he had never tried to obtain the app...
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ΑΥΤΟΊ (G846) _пот. pl._ вы сами.
Усилительное _pers. pron._
ΓΙΝΏΣΚΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097)
знать,
ΟΎΣΙΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΊΜΊ (G1510) быть. Part,
в роли _subst._, "те, кто со...
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IN MILETUS. Acts 20:16-38.
a.
Past Ephesus to Miletus. Acts 20:16-17.
Acts 20:16
For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have
to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if...
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See notes on verse 28...
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Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my
necessities, and to them that were with me.
Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands - DOUBTLESS, HOLDING THEM UP
BEFORE THEM, AS HE...
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21 Repentance had its place in Paul's preaching while he was
proclaiming the kingdom. It was associated with pardon. Henceforth he
no longer preaches these, but justification and conciliation by faith...
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THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONTINUED)
1-6. Paul in Macedonia and Greece. St. Paul waited at Ephesus until
the return of Timothy and Erastus, and left Ephesus shortly after
Pentecost, 55 a.d. (1 Corinth...
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ST PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE ELDERS OF EPHESUS. He reminds them of his
ministry among them (Acts 20:18). And now that the Spirit draws him to
Jerusalem, to face the unknown future, he entrusts the Ephesian...
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Cp. Acts 18:3; 1 Corinthians 4:12; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2
Thessalonians 3:8....
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 20
PAUL TRAVELS THROUGH MACEDONIA AND GREECE, 20:1-6
V1 After the *riot, Paul sent for the *believers and he encouraged
them. Then he said good...
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THESE HANDS HAVE MINISTERED UNTO MY NECESSITIES. — The words clearly
cover the whole three years of the Apostle’s ministry at Ephesus.
The partnership with Aquila and Priscilla (Acts 18:3) continued....
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αὐτοὶ : placed first for emphasis, so too emphasised in Acts
2:22; Acts 16:37; Acts 18:15. In 1 Corinthians 4:12 we may see an
undesigned coincidence, and...
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COMMENDED TO GOD
Acts 20:28
Notice the change of the Revised Version in Acts 20:28. The elder,
whether presbyter or bishop, is not put _over_ the flock; he is _in_
it like the rest, needing redemptio...
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Restful and mastered by Christ, Paul was yet restless and resistless
in devotion to the enterprise of his Lord. These facts are evident
throughout this chapter. We follow him in rapid movements, alway...
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Paul's Charge to the Ephesian Elders
Because he did not anticipate seeing them again, the apostle charged
those elders, who had been selected on the basis of the qualifications
listed by the Holy Spir...
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_These hands have furnished, by labouring to maintain myself, &c.
(Witham)_...
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Here Paul protests to the Ephesian elders his felicitous salvation
from paltry pelf, asseverating that he had toiled with his hands
making tents, not only for his own temporal support, but that of his...
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And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the
church. (18) And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye
know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I...
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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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34._Yea, ye know _He doth not, in these words, precisely set down a
law which all the ministers of the word must needs keep; for he did
not behave himself so loftily and lordlike, that he did take t...
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But let us return to the history of Paul.
After the uproar has ceased he sends for the disciples, embraces them,
and departs for Macedonia; he visits that whole country, and comes
into Greece. The beg...
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YEA, YOU YOURSELVES KNOW,.... So far was the apostle from desiring to
have other men's money, or to wear their apparel, or to eat their
bread, that he could appeal to these elders for the truth of it,...
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Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my
necessities, and to them that were with me.
Ver. 34. _These hands have ministered_] More shame for them to suffer
it. _Sed rara ingen...
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_I have coveted no man's silver_, &c. Here the apostle begins another
branch of his farewell discourse, in terms like those of old Samuel,
taking his leave of the children of Israel, 1 Samuel 12:8. As...
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MINISTERED UNTO MY NECESSITIES; wrought for the supply of my wants....
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Paul's words of farewell:...
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YEA, YE YOURSELVES KNOW THAT THESE HANDS HAVE MINISTERED UNTO MY
NECESSITIES, AND TO THEM THAT WERE WITH ME....
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Finally Paul follows Timothy and Erastus to Macedonia, leaving a field
of labor that had been most fruitful. How long he spent in Philippi,
Thessalonica and Berea we are not told, but he gave them muc...
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"Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities,
and to them that were with me"These hands ministered unto
necessities": Indicating that while Paul was in Ephesus he supported
hims...
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28-38 If the Holy Ghost has made ministers overseers of the flock,
that is, shepherds, they must be true to their trust. Let them
consider their Master's concern for the flock committed to their
char...
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St. Paul working hard (as they all knew) for a livelihood, ACTS 18:3 1
CORINTHIANS 4:12 1 THESSALONIANS 2:9; which he gives an account of,...
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Acts 20:34 Yes G1161 yourselves G846 know G1097 (G5719) that G3754
these G3778 hands G5495 provided G5256 ...
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PAUL'S ADDRESS TO THE ELDERS OF THE EPHESIAN CHURCH (20:17-38)....
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_St. Paul's Farewell Address to the Elders of the Church at Ephesus,_
18-38.
In this short epitome of the discourse of the apostle on the occasion
of his bidding farewell to his old Ephesian friends a...
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Acts 20:34. YEA, YE YOURSELVES KNOW, THAT THESE HANDS. No doubt here
holding up his toil-worn, work-scarred hands. See the reference to St.
Paul's custom of working with his own hands in the note abov...
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YE YOURSELVES
(αυτο). Intensive pronoun. Certainly they knew that the church in
Ephesus had not supported Paul while there.THESE HANDS
(α χειρες αυτα). Paul was not above manual labour. He
pointed...
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CONTENTS: Paul goes to Macedonia and Greece. His visits at Troas,
Miletus. Paul's conference with the Ephesian elders.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Paul, Sopater, Aristarchus, Secundus,
Gaius, Tim...
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Acts 20:4. _There accompanied him Sopater of Berea,_ the son of
Pyrrhus, according to the Vulgate. He is called by Paul, Sosipater.
Romans 16:21. _Aristarchus,_ who accompanied him to Rome, and
_Secun...
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AND NOW I PLACE YOU IN THE CARE OF GOD. He places a solemn obligation
upon them. Compare James 1:21; Hebrews 4:12. FOR ALL HIS PEOPLE. See 1
Corinthians 1:2;...
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_I have coveted no man’s silver._
HONEST LABOUR
“Two men,” says Carlyle,” I honour, and no third. First, the
toil-worn craftsman, that with earth-made implement laboriously
conquers the Earth and mak...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 20:17 Paul’s Miletus address is the only example
in Acts 1:1 of a major speech to Christians. Of all Paul’s speeches
in Ac
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 20:17. MILETUS.—Thirty-six miles south of Ephesus, and on the
south-west of the Latmian Gulf. “Now a desolation: then an emporium
of trade with four ports or docks crowded wit...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 20:1
_Having sent for_ …_ and exhorted _for _called unto him, _A.V. and
T.R.; _took leave of them, and departed _for _and embraced them, and
departed, _A.V. DEPARTED FOR TO GO INTO MA...
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Last week we left Paul in Ephesus, in the midst of a near riot in
town, as Demetrius the silversmith got together his companions in
trade and pointed out how the preaching of Paul was about to put the...
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1 Corinthians 4:12; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8; 2
Thessalonians 3:9;...
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These hands — Callous, as you see, with labour. Who is he that
envies such a bishop or archbishop as this?...