Acts 17:30
What meaning of the acts 17:30 in the Bible?
What does Acts 17:30 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:"
What does Acts 17:30 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:"
ACTS 17:30 th/j avgnoi,aj The addition in codex Bezae and the Vulgate of tau,thj after th/j avgnoi,aj, thought by Epp 329 to involve a deliberate contrast to the ignorance referred to in Acts 3:17,...
Verse 30. _THE TIMES OF THIS IGNORANCE GOD WINKED AT_] He who has an indisputable right to demand the worship of all his creatures has mercifully overlooked those acts of idolatry which have disgraced...
AND THE TIMES OF THIS IGNORANCE - The long period when people were ignorant of the true God, and when they worshipped stocks and stones. Paul here refers to the times preceding the gospel. GOD WINKED...
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. The Gospel in Thessalonica (Acts 17:1)._ 2. The Gospel in Beroea (Acts 17:10). 3. Paul in Athens (Acts 17:15). Three cities in which the Gospel is next preached are before us in th...
PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE AREOPAGUS. He opens with a compliment to the religiosity of the Athenians. He has walked up and down the city and marked the many objects of worship; he has also found an altar wi...
IN THESSALONICA (Acts 17:1-9)...
AND, &C. Literally The times indeed therefore of ignorance. WINKED AT; BUT. having overlooked. Greek. _hupereidon._ Only here. NOW. Emphatic. See note on Acts 4:29. COMMANDETH. Greek. _parangello._...
Speech of St Paul at Athens Taking notice of the extreme religious scrupulousness, which had led the Athenians to raise an altar to an unknown God, the Apostle declares to them the God whom alone the...
SPEECH OF ST PAUL AT ATHENS Taking notice of the extreme religious scrupulousness which had led the Athenians to raiso an altar to an unknown God, the Apostle declares to them the God whom alone they...
_A SERMON ABOUT THE ONE TRUE GOD ACTS 17:24-34:_ In his sermon Paul showed that the true God_ _ made the world and all things therein. This God is Lord of heaven and earth. He gives to all life, and b...
ΑΓΝΟΊΑΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΆΓΝΟΙΑ (G52) невежество. _Gen._ описания, ΎΠΕΡΙΔΏΝ _aor. act. part. от_ ΎΠΕΡΟΡΆΩ (G5237) недосматривать. Частый гл. в Септ., обозначающий вещь, на которую не обратили внимания...
DISCOURSE: 1790 REPENTANCE ENJOINED Acts 17:30. _The times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent_. THIS is one of the most celebrated discourses in all the...
THE TIMES OF THIS IGNORANCE GOD WINKED AT;— The original 'Υπεριδαν, signifies _overlooked;_ that is, he did not appear to take notice of them, by sending express messages to them, as he did to the Jew...
IN ATHENS. Acts 17:14 b - Acts 17:34. a. The brethren from Berea go with Paul as far as Athens and take back a command for the coming of Silas and Timothy. Acts 17:14 b - Acts 17:15 Acts 17:14 b a...
See notes on verse 22...
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: AND THE TIMES OF THIS IGNORANCE GOD WINKED AT, [ huperidoon (G5237)] - literally, and better, 'over...
19 The hill called the Areopagus (Latin, Mars' Hill), just a few steps above the Market Place, was a most fitting forum for the folly of God to defeat the wisdom of the world. At Rome Paul's weakness...
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONTINUED) 1-15. Thessalonica and Berœa. 1. Amphipolis] 32 m. W. of Philippi. APOLLONIA] 30 m. W. of Amphipolis. THESSALONICA] now Salonika, was the capital of the provin...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 17 PAUL AND SILAS GO TO THESSALONICA, 17:1-4 V1 Paul and Silas travelled through Amphipolis and Apollonia. They came to Thessalonica. There was...
AND THE TIMES OF THIS IGNORANCE GOD WINKED AT. — Better, perhaps, _overlooked,_ the English phrase, though vivid, being somewhat too familiar, and suggesting; strictly taken, not merely tolerance, but...
CHAPTER 12 ST. PAUL IN MACEDONIA. Acts 16:29; Acts 17:1; Acts 17:10 TROAS was at this time the termination of St. Paul's Asiatic travels. He had passed diagonally right through Asia Minor, followin...
τοὺς μὲν οὖν χρ.: a contrast drawn between the past times of ignorance, and the present times with God's summons to repentance, but instead of a finite verb we have the participle ὑπεριδών, and so δέ...
THE ONE LIVING AND TRUE GOD Acts 17:22 The gospel preacher must avail himself of any circumstance in his surroundings that will enable him to arrest the attention of his audience. He must meet them...
At Thessalonica and Berea the apostle visited the synagogues, and again in each case persecution arose from the Jews. A sentence which fell from the lips of the leader of the mob shows with what rapid...
Paul's Sermon on Mars Hill The apostle began his sermon by noting that they were very religious, worshipping idols devoted to all types of gods, even an unknown God. Paul seized upon their recognitio...
(15) And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: (15) The oldness of the error does not excuse those that err, but it commends and sets forth the...
_Overlooked. Despiciens, Greek: uperidon. It may either signify looking down on the ignorant world, and so taking pity of it; or rather that God having overlooked, and permitted mankind to go on so lo...
PAUL AT ATHENS 16-33. While Timothy and Silas prosecute the work in the upper country, Paul and Luke spend the time at Athens, the world's grand emporium of science, literature, philosophy, and idolat...
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. (23) For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar wit...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
_AN UNIVERSAL COMMAND_ ‘And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.’ Acts 17:30 The time of ignorance, during which there had been merciful Divin...
− 30._And the times of this ignorance _Because that is commonly thought to be good which hath been used of long time, and is approved by the common consent of all men; it might have been objected to P...
In the last case it was the power exercised by the enemy over the passions of the Gentiles that caused the persecution of the apostles: at Thessalonica we again find the old and universal enmity of th...
AND THE TIMES OF THIS IGNORANCE GOD WINKED AT,.... Not that he approved of, or encouraged such blindness and folly, as appeared among the Gentiles, when they worshipped idols of gold, silver, and ston...
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Ver. 30. _God winked at_] Regarded not. God accounted the times of paganism before Christ (for all the...
_And the times of this ignorance_ What! Does he object ignorance to the learned and knowing Athenians? Yes, and they acknowledged it by this very altar; _God winked at_ Greek, υπεριδων, _having_ overl...
WINKED AT; suffered, bore with, and did not give them a written expression of his condemnation of these sins, or come out in judgment against them. TO REPENT; of their idolatry and wickedness, and tu...
The conclusion of Paul and the effect of his sermon:...
From Philippi Paul and his company travelled westward in Greece to Thessalonica (also in Macedonia). A Jewish synagogue being there, they attended this for three sabbath days, reasoning with the Jews...
TRULY, THESE TIMES OF IGNORANCE GOD OVERLOOKED, BUT NOW COMMANDS ALL MEN EVERYWHERE TO REPENT, 1. For too long - too many - in too many places - have been living unaware of God. That ignorance about...
"The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent"The times of ignorance" The times previous to the preaching of the gospel. "God overl...
22-31 Here we have a sermon to heathens, who worshipped false gods, and were without the true God in the world; and to them the scope of the discourse was different from what the apostle preached to...
THE TIMES OF THIS IGNORANCE GOD WINKED AT; to prevent an objection, lest any should think that they might continue in their unbelief, and fare as well as their progenitors, God is said to have overloo...
Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus As long then as the former time[46] Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Fifth "And if any one, sir," I said, "has been hitherto ignorant, before he heard these words, how...
Acts 17:30 Truly G3303 G3767 times G5550 ignorance G52 God G2316 overlooked G5237 (G5660) now G3569 commands G3853 (G5719) all G3956 men G444 everywhere G3837 repent G3340 (G5721) the times - Acts 14...
EFFECTIVE MINISTRY IN ATHENS (17:15-34). His Berean guides saw Paul safely to Athens. This had not been where he was originally aiming for. After Thessalonica his intention had probably been to proce...
Acts 17:30. AND THE TIMES OF THIS IGNORANCE GOD WINKED AT. The English translation of the Greek word υ ̔ περιδω ̀ ν, _winked at,_ utterly fails to give the sense of the original, which should be rende...
THE TIMES OF IGNORANCE (τους χρονους της αγνοιας). The times before full knowledge of God came in Jesus Christ. Paul uses the very word for their ignorance (αγνοουντες) employed in verse Acts 17:23...
REPENT Repentance is the translation of a (Greek, "metanoeō") "metanoia-metanoeo", which means "to have another mind," "to change the mind," and is used in the New Testament to indicate a change of...
Acts 17:26 St. Paul at Athens. I. The Jewish nation had existed to be a witness for this universal fellowship among the nations. It had existed as a witness against that which tended to divide them...
CONTENTS: Founding of church at Thessalonica and the Jewish opposition. Paul and Silas at Berea. Paul at Athens and the sermon from Mars' hill. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Silas, Jason, Caesar, philoso...
Acts 17:1. _When they had passed through Amphipolis._ Boiste adds the Roman name _Emboli._ It was built by Simon, the Athenian commander. It stood on an island formed in the river Strymon, and was cal...
PAUL STOOD UP. Many seem to think Paul made a great mistake in what he said to this group, and see a resolve never to repeat this error in what he says in 1 Corinthians 2:1-5. But this cannot be! Paul...
_And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athena _ PAUL AT ATHENS I. The place which the apostle visited. Athens. II. The feelings of which he was the subject. Not of admiration at the masterp...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 17:22 Paul’s Areopagus address is the prime example in Acts 1:1 of preaching to Gentiles who have no knowledge of the OT. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); fo...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 17:22. TOO SUPERSTITIONS.—Somewhat superstitious (R.V.); better, _more god-fearing_, more religious (_sc._, than others)—_i.e._, unusually religious; though the word has both...
EXPOSITION ACTS 17:1 AMPHIPOLIS. This was the ancient capital of that division of Macedonia (Macedonia Prima); see Acts 16:12, note. It was situated on the Via Egnatia, thirty-four miles southwest f...
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews (Acts 17:1): Now Luke passes that off in one verse. From Philippi to Amph...
1 Peter 1:14; 1 Peter 1:15; 1 Peter 4:3; 2 Corinthians 7:10; Acts 11:18; Acts 14:16; Acts 20:21; Acts 26:17; Acts 3:19; Ephesians 4:17;...
Winked at [υ π ε ρ ι δ ω ν]. Only here in New Testament. Originally, to overlook; to suffer to pass unnoticed. So Rev., overtooked....
The times of ignorance — What! does he object ignorance to the knowing Athenians? Yes, and they acknowledge it by this very altar. God overlooked — As one paraphrases, "The beams of his eye did in a m...
That is, "Though God of his infinite patience hath long borne with the world lying in darkness and ignorance; yet how, by causing his gospel to be preached to all nation, he calls and invites them to...