Acts 16:7

After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not. AFTER THEY WERE COME TO MYSIA - lying north westward of Phrygia, but where, as being part of Roman Asia, they had been forbidden to labour, THEY ASSAYED (OR 'ATTEMPTED') TO GO INTO BITHYNIA, [not kata (G2596) teen (G3588) B., as in the Received Text, with G H, etc., but teen (G3588) B., with 'Aleph (') A B C D E, etc., and most of the Greek fathers: so Lachmann and Tischendorf]. The meaning seems to be, that they made their arrangements with the view of entering this province, lying to the northeast of Mysia, on the southern shore of the Black Sea....

6-15 The removals of ministers, and the dispensing the means of grace by them, are in particular under Divine conduct and direction. We must follow Providence: and whatever we seek to do, if that suffer us not, we ought to submit and believe to be for the best. People greatly need help for their souls, it is their duty to look out for it, and to invite those among them who can help them. And God's calls must be complied with readily. A solemn assembly the worshippers of God must have, if possible, upon the sabbath day. If we have not synagogues, we must be thankful for more private places, and resort to them; not forsaking the assembling together, as our opportunities are. Among the hearers of Paul was a woman, named Lydia. She had an honest calling, which the historian notices to her praise. Yet though she had a calling to mind, she found time to improve advantages for her soul. It wil...

Verse Acts 16:7. _AFTER THEY WERE COME TO MYSIA_] They passed through Phrygia into Mysia, which lay between Bithynia on the north, Phrygia on the east, AEolia on the south, and the Mediterranean on the west. _BUT THE SPIRIT SUFFERED THEM NOT_] God saw that that was not the most proper time to preach the word at Bithynia; as he willed them to go immediately to Macedonia, the people there being ripe for the word of life. Instead of τοπνευμα, _the Spirit_ merely, το πνευμα ιησου, _the Spirit of JESUS_, is the reading of ABCDE, several others, with both the _Syriac_, the _Coptic, AEthiopic,_ _Armenian, Vulgate, Itala_, and several of the _fathers_. The reading is undoubtedly _genuine_, and should be immediately restored to the text....

MYSIA - This was a province of Asia Minor, having Propontis on the north, Bithynia on the east, Lydia on the south, and the Aegean Sea on the west. THEY ASSAYED - They endeavored; they attempted. INTO BITHYNIA - A province of Asia Minor lying east of Mysia....

EXPOSITION ACTS 16:1 _And he came also _for _then came he, _A.V._ _and T.R.; _to Lystra _for _Lystra, _A.V._; Timothy _for _Timotheus, _A.V._; of a Jewess _for _of a certain woman which was a Jewess, _A.V. and T.R.; _which _for _and, _A.V. For DERBE and LYSTRA, see Acts 14:1. and notes. This time St. Paul visited Derbe first, whereas before he came from Lystra to Derbe (Acts 14:6, Acts 14:8, Acts 14:21). WAS THERE; viz

AFTER THEY WERE COME TO MYSIA,.... Another country in Asia Minor. It is divided by Ptolomy a into two parts; superior Mysia is bounded by Dalmatia on the west, by Macedonia on the south, by part of Thrace on the east, and by part of the river Danube on the north; inferior Mysia is bounded on the west with part of the river Ciaber and the Danube, on the south with part of Thrace, on the north with the turn of the river Tyra, and on the east with the Euxine Pontus; but this was the European Mysia: the Mysia which seems here intended, was divided into the lesser Mysia by the Hellespont, and had Troas on the south; and into the greater Mysia by Olympus, which was bounded on the west with the lesser Mysia and Troas, on the east with Bithynia, and on the south with Asia, properly so called. By Pliny b it is called Aeolis, and so Jerom says c, it was in his times; sometimes it is called Abretta...

SUFFERED R.V. adds "of Jesus", as in the best authorities....

ACTS 16:7 VIhsou/ {A} The expression to. pneu/ma VIhsou/ (î74 a A B C2 D E 33 69 81* 326 467 vg syrp, h copbo armmss), which appears nowhere else in the New Testament, is so unusual that various attempts were made to modify it, such as replacing VIhsou/ with kuri,ou (C* itgig _al_) or with to. a[gion (armmss Epiphanius), or omitting the modifier altogether (H L P 81c and most minuscules copsa armmss Ephraem Chrysostom _al,_ followed by the Textus Receptus). One Armenian manuscript known to Zohrab reads, “the Spirit of Christ,” which he adop...

CHAPTER 16 _ 1. In Derbe and Lystra again. Timotheus (Acts 16:1)._ 2. The Preaching forbidden in Asia (Acts 16:6). 3. The Vision of the Man from Macedonia (Acts 16:9). 4. The Gospel in Europe (Acts 16:13). Read in connection with the first verses of this chapter 1 Timothy 1:18; 1Ti 4:14; 2 Timothy 1:5; 2 Timothy 3:15. The circumcision of Timothy, the offspri

JOURNEY THROUGH ASIA MINOR TO MACEDONIA. Here we come to the Travel-document, which is followed henceforward. It was till recently the custom to speak of the We-Passages, which are found in Acts 16:10; Acts 20:5; Acts 21:1; Acts 27:1 to Acts 28:16, and to ascribe to these the highest degree of authenticity. The pieces in the third person lying among these were thought to have been written later by the diarist himself when he came to make up his book, or to have been taken from other sources. But see Introd., p. 776. The speeches are to be ascribed to the editor, who also fi