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Acts 20:32

I commend. See on 1 Peter 4:19.

Build you up. A metaphor in constant use by Paul, and preserved in the words edify, edification (Latin, aedes, "a house" and facere, "to make ") by which oijkodomew and its kindred words are frequently rendered. In old English the word edify was used in its original sense of build. Thus Wycliffe renders Genesis 2:22," The Lord God edified the rib which he took of Adam, into a woman. "

So, too, Spenser :

"a little wide There was a holy temple edified." Faerie Queene, 1, 1, 34.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 20 __ 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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Combined Bible Commentary

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

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  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Bible Study New Testament

    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;...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And now, brethren, I commend you to God._ ST. PAUL’S LAST ADVICE TO THE EPHESIAN ELDERS; OR, A MINISTER’S LAST COUNSEL TO HIS PEOPLE I. The apostle’s commendation. 1. The term “commend” is not unfr...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 3:10; 1 Corinthians 3:9; 1 Corinthians 6:11;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The word of his grace — It is the grand channel of it, to believers as well as unbelievers. Who is able to build you up — To confirm and increase your faith, love, holiness. God can thus build us up,...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Here the apostle takes. very solemn farewell of the elders of the church at Ephesus, commending them to the guidance and protection of the grace of God, which was able to build them up in holiness her...

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