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Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

Acts 21

Acts 21:1

THEM; the Ephesian elders at Miletus. COOS; a small island near the south-west corner of Asia Minor. RHODES; an island not far from Coos. PATARA; a seaport in the province of Lycia.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:2

PHENICIA; a country on the north-west border of Canaan, of which Tyre and Sidon were principal cities. Chap Acts 11:19.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:4

SAID TO PAUL THROUGH THE SPIRIT; the Holy Spirit made known to them the dangers to which Paul would be exposed, and led them to express to him their strong desire that he should not go up to Jerusalem. But he did not communicate by them to Paul, who himself went up to Jerusalem "bound in the Spirit,... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:8

CESAREA; a city still farther south, about sixty miles from Jerusalem. EVANGELIST; a preacher of the gospel and founder of churches, but not a settled pastor. THE SEVEN; ACTS 6:1-9.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:13

Affection for friends should not be so manifested or indulged as to unfit us or them for the performance of duty.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:21

THE JEWS WHICH ARE AMONG THE GENTILES; who lived in heathen countries. MOSES; the ceremonial law which he enjoined. THE CUSTOMS; the religious practices of the Jews. To excite opposition to the gospel, its enemies often misrepresent it. They slander those who preach it, and in various ways show th... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:24

PURIFY THYSELF WITH THEM; perform the ceremonies required for purification in the Mosaic law. Numbers 6:1-20. BE AT CHARGES; by bearing the expense of the offerings made in such cases. SHAVE THEIR HEADS; cut their hair, which during the continuance of their vow had been suffered to grow; and which... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:26

ENTERED INTO THE TEMPLE; to make known to the priest when the vow would end, and thus prepare the way for the customary sacrifices to be offered. Some things are in themselves indifferent; if we do them we are not the better, and if we neglect them we are not the worse: if our doing them would tend... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:28

GREEKS; Gentiles, who were considered as unclean, and were forbidden to enter that part of the temple appropriated to the Jews, lest they should defile it.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:29

TROPHIMUS; he had come with Paul from Ephesus. Acts 20:4. THEY SUPPOSED; they inferred this from having seen him in the city with Paul.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:36

The course which good men take to remove the prejudices and to conciliate the favor of the wicked, is sometimes the occasion of increased hostility, and more violent and deadly opposition.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:38

THAT EGYPTIAN; this Egyptian is mentioned by Josephus, Antiq B 20, chap 8, sec 6; and Jewish Wars, B 2, chap 13, sec 5.... [ Continue Reading ]

Acts 21:39

TARSUS; Paul's native city. Chap Acts 9:11. NO MEAN CITY; Augustus the Roman emperor made it a free city, which released the citizens from tribute, and permitted them to be governed by their own laws. Josephus says it was the metropolis, and most renowned city of Cilicia, Antiq B 1, chap 6, sec 6;... [ Continue Reading ]

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