Acts 19:9

But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. BUT WHEN DIVERS (OR 'CERTAIN') WERE HARDENED, AND BELIEVED NOT - implying, however, that others, and probably a considerable number, believed, BUT SPAKE EVIL OF THAT WAY, [ kakologountes (G2551) teen (G3588) hodon (G3598)] - 'calumniating' or 'speaking ill of the way' (see the note at Acts 9:2), BEFORE THE MULTITUDE, HE DEPARTED FROM THEM - just as he had done at Cor...

− 9._Seeing their hearts were hardened. _We do not read that Paul was heard so patiently and so favorably by the Jews at any place as at Ephesus at his first coming. For whereas others raising tumults did drive him away, he was requested by these to tarry longer. Now, after that he had endeavored, by the space of three months, to erect the kingdom of God among them, the ungodliness and stubbornness of many doth show itself. For Luke saith that they were hardened; and surely such is the power of the heavenly doctrine that it doth either make the reprobate mad or else more obstinate; and that not of nature, but accidentally, as they say, because, when they be urged by the truth, their secret poison breaketh out. − Luke addeth that they spake evil of the way before the people. For the contemners of the gospel − (364) do resist that deadlily among others which they will not embrace. And thi...

8-12 When arguments and persuasions only harden men in unbelief and blasphemy, we must separate ourselves and others from such unholy company. God was pleased to confirm the teaching of these holy men of old, that if their hearers believed them not, they might believe the works....

Verse Acts 19:9. _WHEN DIVERS WERE HARDENED_] τινες, When _some_ of them were hardened; several no doubt felt the power of Divine truth, and yielded consent. Our term _divers_, one of the most _bald_ in our language, has too general a meaning for this place. Behold the effect of the word of God! It is a savour of life unto life, or death unto death, according as it is received or rejected. The twelve men mentioned above received it affectionately, and _they_ were made partakers of the Holy Ghost; the others were hardened, for they refused to believe; and they calumniated the doctrine, and became Satan's preachers among the multitude, to prejudice them against Christ and his religion. _SEPARATED THE DISCIPLES_] Paul, and those converted under his ministry, had doubtless been in the habit of attending public worship in the syn

BUT WHEN DIVERS - When some were hardened. WERE HARDENED - When their hearts were hardened, and they became violently opposed to the gospel. When the truth made no impression on them. The word “harden,” as applied to the heart, is often used to denote “insensibility, and opposition to the gospel.” BUT SPAKE EVIL OF THAT WAY - Of the gospel - the way, path, or manner in which God saves people. See Acts 16:17; Acts 18:26; Matthew 7:13. SEPARATED THE DISCIPLES - Removed them from the influence and society of those who were seeking to draw them away from the faith. This is

EXPOSITION ACTS 19:1 _Country _for _coasts, _A.V.; _found _for _finding, _A.V. and T.R. THE UPPER COUNTRY (τὰ ἀνωτερικὰ μέρη); the inland districts of Galatia and Phrygia, through which St. Paul journeyed on his way to Ephesus, as distinguished from the seacoast on which Ephesus stood. DISCIPLES. They were like Apollos, believers in the Lord Jesus through the preaching of John the Baptist. It looks as if they were companions of Apollos, and had come with him from Alexandria, perhaps for some purpose of trade or Commerce. ACTS 19:2 _And he said _for _he said, _A.V. and T.R.; _did ye receive _for _have ye received, _A.V.; _when _for _since, _A.V.

BUT WHEN DIVERS WERE HARDENED AND BELIEVED NOT,.... For though some were affected with and convinced by the arguments the apostle used, others were but the more hardened and remained incredulous: for the Gospel, while it is the savour of life unto life to some, it is the savour of death unto death, to others; as the sun melts the wax, and hardens the clay: BUT SPAKE EVIL OF THE WAY BEFORE THE MULTITUDE; the Syriac version and Beza's ancient copy read, "before the multitude of the Gentiles": the unbelieving Jews not only contradicted the Gospel preached by the apostle, but blasphemed it, and said all the evil things of it they could, and loaded it with reproaches, and charged it with all the bad consequences they could think of; and that publicly, before all the people, in order to prejudice them against it; for by "the way", is meant the doctrine of the Gospel, which the Vulgate Latin h...

ACTS 19:9 Tura,nnou {B} The interesting addition in the Western text (“[Paul] argued daily in the hall of Tyrannus _from the fifth hour to the tenth_” [i.e. from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.]) may represent an accurate piece of information, preserved in oral tradition before being incorporated into the text of certain manuscripts. Were it present in the original text, there is no good reason why it should have been deleted. (Instead of “to the tenth” two Latin manuscripts of the Vulgate read “to the ninth” (G), “to the ninth and tenth” (D).) ACTS 19:14, ACTS 19:16 The Western text (co...

CHAPTER 19 _ 1. The second visit of Paul to Ephesus. The twelve disciples of John (Acts 19:1)._ 2. The Apostle's continued labors. The separation of the disciples. The Province Asia evangelized (Acts 19:8). 3. The Power of God and the Power of Satan (Acts 19:11). 4. Paul plans to go to Jerusalem and to visit Rome (Acts 19:21). 5. The opposition and riot at Ephesus (Acts 19:23). The disciples whom Paul found at Ephesus were disciples of John. The question the Apostle asked them has often been made the foundation of wrong teach

PAUL AT EPHESUS. After three months in the synagogue (Acts 18:19; Acts 18:26) Paul finds it necessary, as in other places, to leave it, and takes his followers to the lecture room of Tyrannus, where he preaches to them. D and other authorities add, from the fifth to the tenth hour, which corresponds to the time after the conclusion of business....