Acts 18:12-28 NIV

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:1-28

PART THIRD. CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE GENTILES. From Chapter Acts 13:1, to End of Acts. Through the remainder of his work Luke’s subject is the evangelization of the Gentiles, and his hero is Paul. His field is western Asia and Europe; his terminal point is Rome, and the work is the laying the foundation of modern Christendom. At every point, even at Rome, Luke is careful to note the Gospel offer to the Jews, and how the main share reject, and a remnant only is saved. And thus it appears that... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:12

12. Gallio Marcus Annaeus Novatus was the brother of the celebrated philosopher, Seneca. Being, according to Roman custom, adopted into the family of the rhetorician Gallio, he assumed the name Junius Annaeus Gallio. His brother, Seneca, given him the highest character for a fascinating amiableness. “No one of mortals could be so dear even to a single friend as he was to all.” And the poet Statius gives him the epithet “sweet Gallio.” It is said, but not well authenticated, that he, like... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:12-17

The Arraignment before the Proconsul Gallio , Acts 18:12-17 . A new proconsul has just arrived at Corinth from Rome, and the Jewish experiment is to be made whether the Roman power cannot be called in to end Paul’s Corinthian ministry, perhaps his life. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:13

13. Contrary to the law As having infringed the law requiring every man to remain in his ancestral religion. From Gallio’s words it is clear that the indictment contained a statement of some length, not given by Luke, which he heard completely through. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:14

14. Paul… mouth Paul was not allowed a defence, because there was no charge. Wrong Positive crime. Lewdness Rather, laxity; misconduct from easy carelessness, yet often arising to presumption and recklessness. O ye Jews The repugnance of the easy and graceful literary philosopher appears in every clause. Bear with you However severe the endurance. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:15

15. Words So far as the doctrines were concerned, Gallio would consider them as so much worthless words. Names Of persons, as Moses and Jesus, which probably occurred in the statement of the prosecutors, and which Gallio would consider an mere names. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:16

16. Drave them Bid them clear the room so peremptorily as indicated ready compulsion by officers. It is by no means so clear, as commentators represent, that Gallio does not here display more impatience than becomes his office. The tedium of a regal discussion is no good ground of a nonsuit. Perhaps he is already nervous from the climate, which ultimately sent him home an invalid. It certainly was a prima facie question whether Paul had not deserted from his national creed, requiring a... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:17

17. All the Greeks All the Greeks present at the court. The Greeks of this degenerate age had learned to watch their Roman arbiter’s eye with servile adulation, and to take the cue from his words. When, therefore, Gallio ordered the Jews out of his presence, these Greeks seem, without rebuke from Gallio, to have caught their ringleader and chastised him for having come into the judicial presence. But, in addition to the present unpopularity of the Jewish race, this set of Greeks here... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:18

18. Yet a good while He was, in consequence of this decisive check imposed by the Roman power upon Jewish hostility, enabled to fill out the eighteen months of Acts 18:11 in building probably the most powerful Church in Europe. The experiment was now settled that Europe was a true predisposed field for the Gospel. Japheth was at length to enter and dwell in the tents of Shem. Hereby Paul’s initiatory mission seemed to him fulfilled, and he turns his heart and feet back toward his native... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:18-22

Paul’s Return from Greece to Jerusalem, closing his Second Missionary Journey , Acts 18:18-22 . The voyage lies across the AEgean to Ephesus; thence southeastward to Cesarea; thence the land route to Jerusalem. read more

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:1-28

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:12

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:12-17

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:13

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:14

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:15

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:16

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:17

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:18

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 18:18-22

Grupo de marcas