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Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 20:28

Acts 20:28. Hath made you overseers, &c.— 'Επισκοπους, Inspectors, or bishops. The expression over which the Holy Ghost hath made, &c. applied to men who had been regularly set apart to the ministerial office, shews how absurd it is for any to reject the ministry in general, under a pretence that they have the Holy Ghost to teach them. This passage must be allowed as an incontestable proof, that the blood of Christ is here called the blood of God, as being the blood of that Man, who is... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 20:29

Acts 20:29. Grievous wolves— Some, thinking that the word βαρεις properly alludes to the strength of these animals, would render it oppressive; but there seems no reason to depart from our version. Their eager and overbearing temper made them, no doubt, grievous to the Christian church, though destitute of the secular power. The apostle evidently makes a distinction between the wolves, who were to break in upon them from without, and the perverse teachers, who were to arise from among... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 20:31

Acts 20:31. To warn every one night and day with tears.— If this expression be taken in any other than a general sense for incessantly, or without intermission, it may probably intimate that the Christians sometimes assembled at nights, either about the time of the tumult, to avoid offence, or because many of the Christians, being poor, were obliged to spend great part of the day in secular labours. Compare Acts 20:7; Acts 20:34. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 20:32

Acts 20:32. Which is able— Who is able: for God is evidently the last person mentioned in the Greek, of the grace of him [αυτου ] who is able: though the gospel may be said to be able to edify men, yet it seems harsh to say, that doctrines or writings can give us an inheritance. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 20:35

Acts 20:35. To support the weak, &c.— To assist the infirm, The word ασθενουντων has exactly this signification; and, as Raphelius has shewn, may express either sickness or poverty; yet here undoubtedly it signifies such poor persons as were disabled by some means or other from maintaining themselves by their own labour. Compare Ephesians 4:28. The evangelists have assured us, that they neither intended to relate, nor have related, all that our Lord did and said; the latter clause... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 20:5

5, 6. These going before—perhaps to announce and prepare for the apostle's coming. tarried for us at Troas. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 20:6

6. And we sailed . . . from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread—(that is, the Passover). This, compared with 1 Corinthians 16:8, shows that the three months spent at Corinth (1 Corinthians 16:8- :) were the winter months. came . . . to Troas—for the third and last time. (See on 1 Corinthians 16:8- : and Acts 20:2). in the five days—As it might have been done in two days, the wind must have been adverse. The vivid style of one now present will be here again observed. where we abode seven... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 20:7

7. upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together—This, compared with :-, and other similar allusions, plainly indicates that the Christian observance of the day afterwards distinctly called "the Lord's Day," was already a fixed practice of the churches. Paul preached—discoursed. The tense implies continued action—"kept discoursing." read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 20:8

8. there were many lights in the upper chamber—not a mere piece of graphic detail by an eye-witness [HACKETT, HOWSON], but mentioned, probably, as increasing the heat and contributing to drowsiness [WEBSTER and WILKINSON], as the next clause seems to show. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 20:9

9. in a—"the." window—or window seat, or recess. fell down from the third loft—"story." and was taken up dead—"The window projected (according to the side of the room where it was situated) either over the street or over the interior court; so that in either case he fell on the hard earth or pavement below." read more

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