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
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
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
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
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
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
19. Came to Ephesus Between Corinth and Ephesus the sea route was a perpetual scene of navigation. It took usually from twelve to fifteen days, about the time of a modern steamboat trip across the Atlantic. Ephesus, the commercial capital of proconsular Asia, we shall fully notice at Acts 19:1. read more
20. Desired him to tarry The vessel, though stopping at Ephesus, seems bound for Cesarea. Paul’s first preaching at Ephesus, as at Corinth, seems to have won the Jews. In both places the brief peace was succeeded by violent war. As cultivators of the ground for a future Church, however, Paul left Aquila and Priscilla there, (Acts 18:19.) read more
21. I must… Jerusalem This entire clause is found wanting in a number of the best manuscripts; but it is sufficiently sustained to be retained in the text. Paul’s promise to return was fulfilled soon after. Sailed It is uncertain whether in the same or another ship. The same route was pursued in Paul’s return from his third journey, (Acts 21:1-8,) where see notes. read more
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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