George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Acts 13:19
These seven nations are the Chanaanites, the Hethites, the Hevites, the Pherezites, the Gergesites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorrhites. (Josue iii. 10. and elsewhere)
These seven nations are the Chanaanites, the Hethites, the Hevites, the Pherezites, the Gergesites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorrhites. (Josue iii. 10. and elsewhere)
ACTS 13:19 kai. kaqelw,n The initial kai, is absent from B 81 copsa; it is present in î74 a A C D E H L P and almost all minuscules. Despite Ropes’s argument for taking (as Westcott and Hort did) the...
Verse Acts 13:19. _DESTROYED SEVEN NATIONS_] The _Canaanites, Hittites,_ _Girgasites, Amorites, Hivites, Peresites_, and _Jebusites_. The rabbins frequently call them שבעה אומות _Shebaah Omoth_, the _...
AND WHEN HE HAD DESTROYED - Subdued, cast out, or extirpated them as nations. It does not mean that all were put to death, for many of them were left in the land; but that they were subdued as nations...
PART III The Witness to the Gentiles. The Apostle to the Gentiles; his Ministry and Captivity. Chapter s 13-28 CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The Divine Choice. Barnabas and Saul separated unto the work (Acts 1...
THE SERMON AT PISIDIAN ANTIOCH. This is a specimen of Paul's missionary practice. In external matters it is true to the facts, yet the sermon is on the one hand so like the sermon of Peter (ch. 2) and...
THE FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY (Acts 13:1-3) Acts 13:1-52; Acts 14:1-28 tell the story of the first missionary journey. Paul and Barnabas set out from Antioch. Antioch was 15 miles up the River Orontes...
Then Paul stood up and made a gesture with his hand and said, "You Israelites, and you who are God-fearers, listen to this. The God of this people Israel chose out our fathers and he exalted the peopl...
WHEN HE HAD. having. seven. See Deuteronomy 7:1. NATIONS. Greek. _ethnos._ DIVIDED... BY LOT. gave by lot. Greek. _kataklerodoteo._ Only here. Compare Septuagint, Psa 77:55. But texts read _kataklero...
_seven nations_ They are enumerated (Deuteronomy 7:1) before the people went over the Jordan, viz. the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb...
αὐτοῖς omitted after ΚΑΤΕΚΛΗΡΟΝΌΜΗΣΕΝ with אBD. _Vulg_. has ‘eis.’ 19. ἜΘΝΗ ἙΠΤΆ, _seven nations_. They are enumerated (Deuteronomy 7:1) before the people went over Jordan, viz. the Hittites, the Gir...
PAUL’S SPEECH AT ANTIOCH...
_PAUL'S POWERFUL SERMON AT ANTIOCH ACTS 13:14-41:_ At Perga in Pamphylia John Mark left Paul and Barnabas and went back to Jerusalem. Later, this would cause no small trouble between these brethren. W...
ΚΑΘΕΛΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΚΑΘΑΙΡΈΩ (G2507) разрушать, ΚΑΤΕΚΛΗΡΟΝΌΜΗΣΕΝ _aor. act. ind. от_ ΚΑΤΑΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΈΩ (G2624) делить по жребию, распределять наследство, овладевать,отдавать во владение...
AT ANTIOCH OF PISIDIA. Acts 13:14-52. a. In the synagogue, the first sermon of Paul. Acts 13:1. Acts 13:14 But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia; and they went into the s...
See notes one verse 17...
And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot. AND WHEN HE HAD DESTROYED SEVEN NATIONS IN THE LAND OF CHANAAN - namely, the Hittites, the Gir...
13 John, doubtless, was at fault in thus deserting the apostles. But there seems to be a deeper reason for his defection. Being from Jerusalem, and a nephew of Barnabas, he represented the weakness of...
ST. PAUL AS A MISSIONARY 1. Prophets] see on Acts 11:27. SIMEON THAT WAS CALLED NIGER] Niger was a Roman cognomen. LUCIUS OF CYRENE] doubtless one of those Cyrenians who first preached at Antioch (Act...
ANTIOCH OF PISIDIA. ST. PAUL'S SERMON IN THE SYNAGOGUE. The cities which the apostles now proceeded to evangelise (Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe) were situated in the southern part of t...
BY LOT] RV 'for an inheritance.' The narrative goes back to Acts 8:1, to trace the chain of causation which led to the foundation of the first great Gentile Church. Christianity, it will be seen, spr...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 13 THE *HOLY SPIRIT CHOOSES BARNABAS AND SAUL, 13:1-3 V1 There were some *prophets and teachers in the *church at Antioch. They were Barnabas,...
HE DIVIDED THEIR LAND TO THEM BY LOT. — Accepting this reading, the reference is to the command given in Numbers 26:55, and recorded as carried into effect in Joshua 14-19. The better MSS., however, g...
καθελὼν, _cf._ Deuteronomy 7:1. In LXX the stronger verb ἐξαίρειν is used, but καθαιρεῖν in LXX often means to destroy, Jeremiah 24:6; Psalms 27:5, and so in classical Greek. Weiss prefers the force o...
THE SAVIOR ACCORDING TO PROMISE Acts 13:13-24 It was very natural that the missionary party should sail for Cyprus, partly because it was the first and nearest outpost of the great heathen world that...
The first most distinctly missionary movement sprang from Antioch, and was independent of all official initiation. A company of those in Antioch sent Saul and Barnabas, and it is declared immediately...
Proclaiming the Gospel in Antioch of Pisidia Ash says they would have landed at the port of Attalia and then gone on the short distance to Perga. For some reason, John Mark decided to leave "Paul and...
They constantly everywhere make free to attend the Jewish synagogues on the Sabbath, preaching on the streets and from house to house through the week. Hence they go in and sit in the audience, by phy...
Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem. (14) But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in P...
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...
We come now to the beginning of the direct history of the work, new in some important respects, that is, connected with Paul's mission by the immediate intervention of the Holy Ghost. It is not now Ch...
AND WHEN HE HAD DESTROYED SEVEN NATIONS IN THE LAND OF CANAAN,.... The Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, Jebusites, and Girgashites; and the name of seven nations is what they are u...
And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot. Ver. 19. _And when he had destroyed seven nations_] Who had "filled the land from one end to anot...
_And when he had destroyed seven nations_ Enumerated Deuteronomy 7:1; _in the land of Chanaan_ Where they had been long settled, and had erected many kingdoms, defended by fortifications of great stre...
SEVEN NATIONS; JOSHUA 3:10; JOSHUA 11:8....
AND WHEN HE HAD DESTROYED SEVEN NATIONS IN THE LAND OF CHANAAN, HE DIVIDED THEIR LAND TO THEM BY LOT....
Paul begins his discourse:...
From this time our attention is drawn particularly to the work of Saul, whose name is in this chapter changed to Paul, meaning "little," for one who is the most greatly used of God is, in his own esti...
AND WHEN HE HAD DESTROYED SEVEN NATIONS IN THE LAND OF CANAAN, HE DISTRIBUTED THEIR LAND TO THEM BY ALLOTMENT. 1. Seven nations (tribes of people) were the former occupants. 2. See Deuteronomy 7:1 f...
God subdued seven nations in the book of Joshua, the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and the Jebusites (Joshua 2:10; Nehemiah 9:8). After this the land was then divid...
14-31 When we come together to worship God, we must do it, not only by prayer and praise, but by the reading and hearing of the word of God. The bare reading of the Scriptures in public assemblies is...
These SEVEN NATIONS are mentioned, JOSHUA 3:10. HE DIVIDED THEIR LAND TO THEM BY LOT; the lot being disposed only as God would, PROVERBS 16:33. And it was but reasonable that God, having miraculously...
Acts 13:19 And G2532 destroyed G2507 (G5631) seven G2033 nations G1484 in G1722 land G1093 Canaan G5477 distributed...
THE EXPANSION OF THE WORD IN CYPRUS AND ASIA MINOR, WITH SATAN'S COUNTERATTACK BEING DEFEATED AT AN ASSEMBLY IN JERUSALEM, WHICH IS THEN FOLLOWED BY FURTHER MINISTRY (13:1-18:22). Jerusalem having for...
THE MINISTRY OF PAUL AND BARNABAS RESULTS IN THE COUNTER-ATTACK OF SATAN AND THE GATHERING AT JERUSALEM (13:1-15:35). Leaving Antioch under the direct commissioning of the Holy Spirit, in a parallel c...
PAUL AND HIS COMPANY PREACH IN PISIDIAN ANTIOCH. (13:13-52). Paul ‘and his company' (thus there were at least one or two others besides Mark) left Paphos and sailed across to Perga in Pamphylia. It wi...
“The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they sojourned in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm he led them forth out of it. And for about the time of forty year...
PAUL'S MESSAGE (13:17-41). Paul's message divides into three parts. · In the first he declares the goodness and faithfulness of the One God, Who over long centuries, commencing with Abraham (‘chose o...
Acts 13:19. SEVEN NATIONS IN THE LAND OF CHANAAN. Compare Deuteronomy 7:1. These ‘seven' were the principal and most powerful tribes of Canaan....
_Paul's Sermon in the Synagogue of Antioch in Pisidia_, _17-41._ This discourse falls naturally into three divisions: _(a)_ Acts 13:17-22. A sketch of the grand old story of the chosen people till t...
WHEN HE HAD DESTROYED (καθελων). Second aorist active participle of καθαιρεω, to tear down, old verb.HE GAVE THEM FOR AN INHERITANCE (κατεκληρονομησεν). First aorist active indicative of the doubl...
Acts 13:14. _But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. And after reading of the law and the prophets,_ From whi...
Acts 13:13. _Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem._ «John» that is, John Mark, as we see by chapter 15...
Acts 13:13. _Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia; and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem. But when they departed from Perga, they came to Anti...
CONTENTS: Paul and Barnabas called. Satanic opposition from a sorcerer. Paul's sermon in the synagogue at Antioch. Opposition from Jews. Paul and Barnabas turn to Gentiles. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Ho...
Acts 13:1. _The church that was at Antioch,_ which was counted one of the five apostolic churches. It is the true church by way of eminence, the synagogue having degenerated into a state of warfare wi...
DESTROYED SEVEN NATIONS. See Deuteronomy 7:1-6....
_Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia._ PERGA IN PAMPHYLIA Because Perga was little known Pamphylia is subjoined. It was an ancient city on the river Cest...
_The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers._ THE HOURS ON THE WORLD’S CLOCK 1. Moving slowly forward as the hours of the Eternal God, with whom a thousand years are as one day, and of the l...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 13:16 Paul’s sermon consisted of three parts: a sketch of OT history (vv. Acts 13:16), God’s ultimate provision in Jesus Christ (vv....
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 13:1 The Witness in Cyprus and Southern Galatia. Chapters Acts 13:1 and Acts 14:1 re
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 13:13. PAUL AND HIS COMPANY.—Note the two changes—first of Saul’s name, which is henceforth Paul, and next of Paul’s position in the mission as leader rather than as follower,...
EXPOSITION ACTS 13:1 _At Antioch., in the Church that was there _for _in the Church that was at Antioch, _A.V.; _prophets, _etc., for _certain prophets, _etc., A.V. and T.R.; _Barnabas, _etc., for _a...
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; Barnabas, Simeon that was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch,...
Acts 7:45; Deuteronomy 7:1; Genesis 12:5; Genesis 17:8; Joshua 14:1;...
Divided by lot [κ α τ ε κ λ η ρ ο ν ο μ η σ ε ν]. The A. V. gives the literal rendering. The Rev., gave them their land for an inheritance, is correct, so far as the meaning inheritance is concerned ...
ELYMAS, PAULUS, AND PAUL Acts 13:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Barnabas and Saul and John Mark made up the party that journeyed together, as the Holy Ghost led them in the way. It was a strong party, and th...
Seven nations — Enumerated Deuteronomy 7:1; about four hundred and fifty years — That is, from the choice of the fathers to the dividing of the land; it was about four hundred and fifty years....