Acts 16:15 - Exposition

When she was baptized ; showing that St. Paul, as St. Peter ( Acts 2:38 , Acts 2:41 ; Acts 10:47 ), as Philip ( Acts 8:38 ), as Ananias ( Acts 22:16 ), as our Lord himself ( Mark 16:16 ), had put holy baptism in the very forefront of his teaching (camp. Hebrews 6:2 ). And her household (comp. Acts 16:33 ; 1 Corinthians 1:16 ; 2 Timothy 4:19 ). This frequent mention of whole households as received into the Church seems necessarily to imply infant baptism. The exhortations to children as members of the Church in Ephesians 6:1 , Ephesians 6:2 , and Colossians 3:20 , lead to the same inference. Come into my house , etc. A beautiful specimen of true hospitality; comp. 1 Peter 4:9 ; Hebrews 13:2 ; 1 Timothy 5:10 ; 3 John 1:5-8 ; also 2 Kings 4:8-10 , where, however, the Greek word for "constrained" is ἐκράτησεν , not as here παρεβίασατο , which only occurs elsewhere in the New Testament in Luke 24:29 . In the LXX . it is used in 1 Samuel 28:23 ; Gem 1 Samuel 19:3 (Cod. Alex.) 9 (in a different sense); 2 Kings 2:17 ; 2 Kings 5:16 . Her large hospitality does not bear out Chrysostom's remark as to her humble station of lift,.