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Verse Acts 19:14. _SEVEN SONS OF ONE SCEVA, A JEW, AND CHIEF OF THE_
_PRIESTS_] The original Ιουδαιου αρχιερεως, dignifies
a _Jewish high_ _priest_; but it is not probable that any sons, much
less se...
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ONE SCEVA - Sceva is a Greek name, but nothing more is known of him.
CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS - This cannot mean that he was high priest among
the Jews, as it is wholly improbable that his sons would be w...
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CHAPTER 19
_ 1. The second visit of Paul to Ephesus. The twelve disciples of John
(Acts 19:1)._
2. The Apostle's continued labors. The separation of the disciples.
The Province Asia evangelized (Act...
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MIRACLES, EXORCISMS, BURNING OF BOOKS OF MAGIC. Peter's shadow cured
the sick (Acts 5:15); Paul's minor articles of clothing do the same,
according to the widespread belief of antiquity in the indirec...
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IN EPHESUS (Acts 19:1-7)
Acts 19:1-41 is mainly concerned with Paul's work in Ephesus. He
stayed longer there than anywhere else, almost three years.
(i) Ephesus (G2181) was the market of Asia Minor....
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Some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists tried naming the name of Jesus
over those who had evil spirits. They said, "I adjure you by Jesus
whom Paul preaches." There were seven sons of a certain Scaeva,...
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SONS. Greek. _huios._ App-108.
CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS. a chief priest. Greek. _archiereus._ This word
is only used in the Gospels, Acts, and Hebrews. It is used of the High
Priest and priestly members o...
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_And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the
priests_ The Greek says simply A CHIEF PRIEST, and so _Rev. Ver._We
cannot tell why the title is given to him, but it is most likely th...
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ΥἹΟῚ after ἘΠΤᾺ and omitting οἱ with אABE. _Vulg_. has
‘septem filii qui hoc faciebant.’
14. ἮΣΑΝ ΔΈ ΤΙΝΕΣ … ἈΡΧΙΕΡΈΩΣ ἙΠΤᾺ
ΥἹΟΊ, _and there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, a chief
priest_. We c...
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PAUL PREACHES TO THE JEWS FIRST AND AFTERWARDS TO THE GENTILES. THE
WORD OF GOD PREVAILS MIGHTILY...
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_BOOKS ABOUT WITCHCRAFT WERE BURNED ACTS 19:11-20:_ God blessed Paul
with the power to work great miracles. Many sick people were healed
and evil sprits were cast out. Some vagabond Jews took it upon...
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ΉΣΑΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΊΜΊ, _см._ Acts 19:1. _Impf._
с _part._ в перифр. обороте.
ΣΚΕΥΆ (G4630) Скева. Это имя может
означать "левша" (BASHH, 234; MM; ABD, 5:1004).
АΡΧΙΕΡΕΎΣ (G749) первосвященн...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
Special Study
PAUL'S POWER TO GIVE CHARISMATIC POWER
(Acts 19:1-41)
A.
There is much ambiguous, scripturally-imprecise and confusing exegesis
of Acts 19:1-7 being done today.
1....
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See notes on verse 13...
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And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the
priests, which did so.
AND THERE WERE SEVEN SONS OF ONE SCEVA, A JEW, AND CHIEF OF THE
PRIESTS - head, probably, of one of the 24 co...
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26 Apollos' ignorance of the ministry of the Lord and His twelve
apostles made it easy for him to receive the truth proclaimed through
Paul, so that he became a great help to the saints in Corinth as...
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EPHESUS
1-41. Paul at Ephesus. Opposition of the manufacturers of idols. St.
Paul, leaving Antioch in S. Galatia (see Acts 18:23), approached
Ephesus not by the usual level route leading through Colos...
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 19
PAUL IN EPHESUS, 19:1-10
V1 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul was travelling. He travelled
through the *province on the higher road. He arr...
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SEVEN SONS OF ONE SCEVA, A JEW, AND CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS. — Better,
_a Jewish chief priest._ The word might mean that he was at the head
of one of the twenty-four courses into which the priests of the...
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See critical note. Σκευᾶ : probably a Latin name adapted to
Greek, see Blass, _in loco_, who gives instances of its occurrence,
see also _Gram._, p. 13, and Winer-Schmeidel, p. 75. Ewald refers it
to...
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THE POWER OF JESUS' NAME
Acts 19:13
Where God's spirit is mightily at work, Satan is not far away. Here
the enemy's emissaries were mean enough to use the name of Jesus to
get themselves a few more s...
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The result of the work of Apollos was manifest when Paul reached
Ephesus. There he found a company of sincere disciples to Jesus as He
had been revealed by John. To them Paul declared the truth in its...
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Magnifying Jesus' Name
God caused some great miracles to be worked through Paul. Even pieces
of cloth, like a handkerchief or apron, which had touched his body
could be placed on the body of the sick...
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Here we see a case in which those Jewish exorcists [_i. e_., people
gifted with the power of demoniacal ejectment, of course delegated by
Jehovah], undertake to utilize the Christ of Paul in that way....
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And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of
three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the
kingdom of God. (9) But when divers were hardened, and believed not,...
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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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From Verse 24 of Chapter 18 to Verse 7 of Chapter 19 we have a kind of
summary of the progress made by the doctrine of Christ, and of the
power that accompanied it. Apollos knew only of the teaching o...
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AND THERE WERE SEVEN SONS OF ONE SCEVA A JEW,.... Who strolled about
the country, and used exorcisms: and
CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS; that were at Ephesus; not the high priest of the
Jews, for he would hav...
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And there were seven sons of _one_ Sceva, a Jew, _and_ chief of the
priests, which did so.
Ver. 14. _Seven sons of one Sceva_] All fathers, but especially
ministers, should use all utmost care that t...
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_Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists_ Dr. Whitby, and several
other critics, have produced many passages from Irenæus, Origen,
Epiphanius, and Josephus, to prove that several of the Jews, abo...
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AND THERE WERE SEVEN SONS OF ONE SCEVA, A JEW AND CHIEF OF THE
PRIESTS, WHICH DID SO....
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The encounter with the exorcists:...
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Paul returned to Ephesus, as he had promised. Of course there was an
assembly there already, as chapter 18:27 intimates; but he found
certain disciples who, at his questioning, tell him they had not e...
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ALSO THERE WERE SEVEN SONS OF SCEVA, A JEWISH CHIEF PRIEST, WHO DID
SO.
1. We now meet the seven sons of Sceva. Sceva is a priest. He is
called a chief priest. This is not the same as a "high" priest...
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"And there were seven sons of one Sceva,. Jew,. chief priest, who did
this"Seven sons" "Doubtless the fact that they were seven brothers
added to the mystery of their pretensions, just as. fortune-tel...
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13-20 It was common, especially among the Jews, for persons to
profess or to try to cast out evil spirits. If we resist the devil by
faith in Christ, he will flee from us; but if we think to resist h...
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One of the chief of the twenty-four courses into which the priests
were divided, 1 CHRONICLES 24:4, or such as (according to the
corruption of those times) had been high priests, and were laid aside,...
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Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VIII
and Caiaphas at last was his own murderer; and the sons of Sceva,
endeavouring to cast out demons, were wounded by them, and fled away
in an unseemly mann...
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‘And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, who
did this, and the evil spirit answered and said to them, “Jesus I
know, and Paul I know, but who are you?” '
Included among these ex...
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PAUL'S CONTINUING MINISTRY IN EPHESUS (19:8-20).
Meanwhile we are reminded that Paul's' ministry continues in Ephesus
in the proclamation of the Kingly Rule of God (compare Acts 1:3; Acts
8:12; Acts 1...
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Acts 19:14. AND THERE WERE SEVEN SONS OF ONE SCEVA, A JEW, AND CHIEF
OF THE PRIESTS, WHICH DID SO. Many suppositions have been hazarded
respecting this title of Sceva the Jew, ‘chief of the priests.'...
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SEVEN SONS OF SCEVA
(Σκευα επτα υιο). Who this Sceva was we do not know. If a
high priest, he was highly connected in Jerusalem (cf. Acts 5:24).
Some MSS. have ruler instead of priest. His name may...
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CONTENTS: Paul at Ephesus. Disciples of John the Baptist become
Christians. Paul in the synagogue and in the school of Tyrannus.
Paul's miracles. Uproar of the silversmiths.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
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Acts 19:1. _Paul came to Ephesus,_ a city of Ionia, built by the
Amezones. Its temple of Diana was one of the seven wonders of the
world; but Pompey plundered it of all its riches. This city is now in...
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SOME JEWS. These were "professional exorcists" who made their living
by driving out evil spirits. _Justin Martyr_ says that most of these
Jewish exorcists had adopted the same superstitions and magic-...
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_Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists._
SEVEN SONS OF SCEVA
A great spiritual revolution had taken place in Ephesus. At first Paul
found the twelve disciples without Christian knowledge beyon...
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_And he welt into the synagogue._
PAUL’S MINISTRY AT EPHESUS
I. Wonderful preaching.
1. Manner of the preaching.
(1) It was bold (Act 4:31; 2 Corinthians 7:4; Philippians 1:14).
(2) It was logical...
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_While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul … came to Ephesus._
--Ephesus was the third capital and starting point of Christianity At
Jerusalem Christianity was born in the cradle of Judaism; Antioch had
been...
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 19:13. VAGABOND.—_I.e._, wandering about, or strolling JEWS,
EXORCISTS, by profession (compare Matthew 12:8). “They appear to
have regarded Paul as one of their own class, but...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 19:1
_Country _for _coasts, _A.V.; _found _for _finding, _A.V. and T.R. THE
UPPER COUNTRY (τὰ ἀνωτερικὰ μέρη); the inland
districts of Galatia and Phrygia, through which St. Paul...
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And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth [watering what
Paul had planted], Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to
Ephesus; and there he found certain disciples [that no dou...
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Acts 19:14...
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Did [π ο ι ο υ ν τ ε ς]. The participle denotes a practice....