Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 19:1-7
CRITICAL REMARKSActs 19:1. While Apollos was at Corinth.—A note of time for the incidents narrated in the present chapter. The upper coasts, or the upper country.—The district mentioned above (Acts 18:23) as the region of Galatia and Phrygia, and commonly regarded as the territory of Northern Galatia (see on Acts 16:6), though Prof. Ramsay explains the term “upper coasts,” or “higher districts,” as the elevated mountain country of Phrygia which separates the Sangarios from the salt lake Anava,... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 19:6
Laid his hands upon them; thereby ordaining and authorizing of them to preach the gospel. The Holy Ghost came on them; in those extraordinary gifts of tongues, &c., whereby they were fitted to preach the gospel unto any nation or people unto whom they should be sent. Prophesied; they prophesied, either in its proper sense, being enabled to foretell things that were to come; or in a larger and more improper sense, praising and magnifying of God, and declaring the hidden mysteries of the... read more