Mark Dunagan Commentaries
Acts 18:17
Introduction To Christian Evidences. Ferrell Jenkins p. 68.
Introduction To Christian Evidences. Ferrell Jenkins p. 68.
ACTS 18:17 pa,ntej {B} In order to identify the “all” who seized and beat Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, the Western and later ecclesiastical texts (and hence the AV) add the identifying word...
Verse Acts 18:17. _THEN ALL THE GREEKS TOOK SOSTHENES_] As this man is termed the chief ruler of the synagogue, it is probable that he had lately succeeded Crispus in that office; see Acts 18:8; and...
THEN ALL THE GREEKS - The Greeks who had witnessed the persecution of Paul by the Jews, and who had seen the tumult which they had excited. TOOK SOSTHENES ... - As he was the chief ruler of the synago...
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...
GALLIO AND PAUL. Gallio's proconsulship is fixed by an inscription at Delphi which came to light in 1905; and gives an absolute date in Pauline chronology (p. 655). He had not been proconsul when Paul...
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...
When Gallio was proconsul of Asia, the Jews got together to make an attack on Paul. They brought him to the judgment seat and said, "This man seduces men to worship God contrary to the Law." When Paul...
ALL THE GREEKS. The texts read, "they all". SOSTHENES. He had apparently succeeded Crispus (Acts 18:8). Compare 1 Corinthians 1:1. BSAT. The crowd, to whom the Jews were obnoxious, would be glad to...
PAUL IS ACCUSED BEFORE GALLIO, WHO DECLINES TO CONSIDER THE CHARGE AGAINST HIM. IN CONSEQUENCE, THE POPULACE FALL AT ONCE ON SOSTHÉNES, A CHIEF MAN AMONG THE JEWS, BUT GALLIO LETS THEIR ASSAULT PASS U...
οἱ Ἕλληνες omitted with אAB. Not represented in _Vulg_. 17. ἘΠΙΛΑΒΌΜΕΝΟΙ ΔῈ ΠΆΝΤΕΣ ΣΩΣΘΈΝΗΝ ΤῸΝ�, _and they all laid hold on Sosthenes the ruler of the synagogue and_, &c. The verb is used (Acts 21:30...
_THE COLDNESS OF GALLIO TOWARD PAUL ACTS 18:12-17:_ The Jews brought Paul before Gallio's judgment seat saying, "This man is teaching the people to give worship to God in a way which is against the la...
ΈΠΙΛΑΒΌΜΕΝΟΙ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (temp.)_ Возможно, с помощью дубинок его ликторов (ВВС), ΕΠΙΛΑΜΒΆΝΟΜΑΙ (G1949) брать, хватать. Сосфен, начальник синагоги (_см._ 1 Corinthians 1:1), должно быть,...
DISCOURSE: 1792 THE CHARACTER OF GALLIO Acts 18:17. _And Gallio cared for none of those things_. WE are assured that not one jot or tittle of God’s word has ever failed, or ever can fail. But, for th...
THEN ALL THE GREEKS TOOK SOSTHENES,— The Jews did not pay a proper regard to Gallio's orders: they had indeed the power of scourging in their synagogues whom they thought proper, of their own nation a...
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...
17. Prompt and energetic vindication of the right, on the part of a public functionary, will nearly always meet the approbation of the masses, and will sometimes even turn the tide of popular prejudic...
Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things. THEN ALL [THE GREEKS]. The bracketed words, t...
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...
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...
The Greeks hated and despised the Jews, and seeing that their contempt was shared by Gallio, they ventured to insult the Jews in his presence by assaulting Sosthenes. GALLIO CARED, etc.] This may eith...
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...
THEN ALL THE GREEKS TOOK SOSTHENES, THE CHIEF RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE. — The better MSS. omit the word “Greeks,” which was probably inserted as an explanatory interpolation by some one who thought it m...
ἐπιλαβ. δὲ : of hostile action, Acts 17:19; Acts 16:19. οἱ Ἕλληνες, see critical note. If πάντες alone is read it seems clear from the context that only the Jews could be meant, and Weiss supposes tha...
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...
PAUL'S TRIAL BEFORE GALLIO 12-17. This case is really notable. When Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue is converted, Sosthenes succeeds him and is enthusiastic to exterminate the Pauline heresy...
And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, (13) Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary...
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...
− 17._All the Grecians having taken Sosthenes. _This is that Sosthenes whom Paul doth honorably couple with himself as his companion in the beginning of the former Epistle to the Corinthians. And thou...
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...
THEN ALL THE GREEKS TOOK SOSTHENES,.... These were not the Greeks or Gentiles that were devout persons, or converted to Christianity, and were on the side of Paul, and fell foul on Sosthenes, as being...
Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat _him_ before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things. Ver. 17. _Took Sosthenes_] A beloved brother...
_Then all the Greeks_ Who were present, perceiving how little favour the Jews found from the court, and displeased with them for their turbulent, persecuting spirit, perhaps, thinking that Paul was th...
THEN ALL THE GREEKS; the Gentiles present, who sympathized with Gallio in his abhorrence of Jewish bigotry. SOSTHENES; probably at that time a leader of the persecution against Paul. CARED FOR NONE...
THEN ALL THE GREEKS TOOK SOSTHENES, THE CHIEF RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE, AND BEAT HIM BEFORE THE JUDGMENT-SEAT. AND GALLIO CARED FOR NONE OF THOSE THINGS. Gallio became proconsul of Achaia and took charg...
The insurrection at the time of Gallio:...
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...
THEN ALL THE GREEKS TOOK SOSTHENES, THE RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE, AND BEAT _HIM_ BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT. BUT GALLIO TOOK NO NOTICE OF THESE THINGS. 1. The tables turned. Some in the city turned on So...
12-17 Paul was about to show that he did not teach men to worship God contrary to law; but the judge would not allow the Jews to complain to him of what was not within his office. It was right in Gal...
ALL THE GREEKS; not the converted Greeks, though St. Austin thought they beat Sosthenes, as an enemy to Paul, (yet surely they had not so learned Christ), but the unbelieving or Gentile Greeks, who ca...
17. Prompt and energetic vindication of the right, on the part of a public functionary, will nearly always meet the approbation of the masses, and will sometimes even turn the tide of popular prejudic...
Acts 18:17 Then G1161 all G3956 Greeks G1672 took G1949 (G5637) Sosthenes G4988 synagogue G752 beat G5180 ...
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...
‘And they all laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio cared for none of these things.' ‘They all' here probably refers to the officials re...
Acts 18:17. THEN ALL THE GREEKS TOOK SOSTHENES, THE CHIEF RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE, AND BEAT HIM BEFORE THE JUDGMENT-SEAT. The better MSS. simply read, ‘Then all took,' etc.; _the Greeks_ was a later in...
THEY ALL LAID HOLD ON SOSTHENES (επιλαβομενο παντες Σωσθενην). See Acts 16:19; Acts 17:19 for the same form. Here is violent hostile reaction against their leader who had failed so miserably.BEAT H...
CARED FOR Contrast (John 19:13); (Acts 24:26); (Acts 24:27)....
Acts 18:17 I. Gallio was a Roman of a gentler than Roman type. His brother, the great Seneca, speaks of the wonderful charm of his character, and declares that they who loved him with all their love l...
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 GALLIO WAS MADE. Ramsay thinks this was in the summer of 52 A.D. Gallio's brother, Seneca, was the teacher of Nero. SEIZED PAUL AND TOOK HIM INTO COURT. This implies they could not stir up a mob...
_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 Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection._ GALLIO AND PAUL The proconsul of Achaia had ended his term of office, and the proconsul appointed by the emperor was Marcus Ann...
_And Gallio cared for none of those things._ THE INDIFFERENTISM OF GALLIO Gallio is one of the most unfortunate characters in all history. It has been his fate to suffer at the hands of foes and frie...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:17 SOSTHENES may have been a Jewish convert to Christianity. Paul mentions someone by that name as his “coauthor” in 1 Corinthians 1:1. In...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of witness on his second journey. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:12. GALLIO.—Gallio became proconsul towards the end of Claudius’s reign, about A.D. 53. His character, as depicted by ancient writers, corresponded with that revealed in Luk...
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 1:1; 1 Corinthians 1:23; Acts 17:32; Acts 18:8; Amos 6:6
Cared for none of these things. Not said to indicate his indifference to religion, but simply that he did not choose to interfere in this case....
Then they all took Sosthenes — The successor of Crispus, and probably Paul's chief accuser, and beat him — It seems because he had occasioned them so much trouble to no purpose, before the judgment se...