George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Acts 18:6
Shaking his garments. See Matthew x. 14. Your blood be upon your own heads: that is, you are guilty of your own perdition: we have discharged our duty by preaching to you. (Witham)
Shaking his garments. See Matthew x. 14. Your blood be upon your own heads: that is, you are guilty of your own perdition: we have discharged our duty by preaching to you. (Witham)
ACTS 18:6 At the beginning of the verse the Western text (D syrhmg ith) inserts pollou/ de. lo,gou ginome,nou kai. grafw/n diermhneuome,nwn (“And after there had been much discussion, and interpretat...
Verse Acts 18:6. _WHEN THEY OPPOSED_] αντιτασσομενων, Systematically opposing, putting themselves in _warlike order_ against him: so the word implies. _AND BLASPHEMED_] This is precisely the way in...
AND WHEN THEY OPPOSED THEMSELVES - To him and his message. AND BLASPHEMED - See the notes on Acts 13:45. HE SHOOK HIS RAIMENT - As an expressive act of shaking off the guilt of their condemnation. Co...
CHAPTER 18 _ 1. In Corinth with Aquila and Priscilla. His Testimony and Separation from the Jews (Acts 18:1)._ 2. Encouragement from the Lord in a vision (Acts 18:9). 3. Paul and Gallio (Acts 18:12...
PAUL AT CORINTH. Corinth (p. 832), the seat of the Roman proconsul, was to the Christian missionary as good a field as Athens was the opposite. A great seaport, it was much addicted to vice and luxury...
After this Paul left Athens and came to Corinth. There he found a Jew called Aquila, who was a native of Pontus, but who had newly arrived from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had decr...
PREACHING IN CORINTH (Acts 18:1-11) Its very position made Corinth (G2882) a key city of Greece. Greece is almost cut in two by the sea. On one side is the Saronic Gulf with its port of Cenchrea and...
OPPOSSD THEMSELVES. Greek. _antitassomai,_ to set in battle array. Elsewhere translated "resist". Romans 13:2. J as. Acts 4:6; Acts 5:6; 1 Peter 5:6. SHOOK
_opposed themselves_ The word implies very strong opposition, as of a force drawn up in battle array. It was an organized opposition. _and blasphemed_ The same word is used in 2 Peter 2:2, "The way of...
ἈΝΤΙΤΑΣΣΟΜΈΝΩΝ ΔῈ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν, _but when they opposed themselves_. The word implies a strong organized opposition. They resisted like a force drawn up for battle. ΚΑῚ ΒΛΑΣΦΗΜΟΎΝΤΩΝ, _and blasphemed_. The...
Acts 18:1-11. PAUL GOES FROM ATHENS TO CORINTH, LABOURS THERE WITH HIS OWN HANDS FOR HIS MAINTENANCE. HE IS ENCOURAGED IN HIS PREACHING BY A VISION OF THE LORD...
_PAUL'S GREAT SUCCESS AT CORINTH ACTS 18:1-11:_ After Paul's sermon in the Areopagus and the good result of it he traveled to Corinth. At Corinth he associated with Aquila and his wife Priscilla. They...
ΆΝΤΙΤΑΣΣΟΜΈΝΩΝ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (temp.) от_ ΑΝΤΙΤΆΣΣΟΜΑΙ (G498) противостоять, сопротивляться. _Gen. abs._ ΒΛΑΣΦΗΜΟΎΝΤΩΝ _praes. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΒΛΑΣΦΗΜΈΩ (G987) хулить, богохульствов...
FROM HENCEFORTH I WILL GO, &C.— That is, "From henceforth I will apply myself to the Gentiles only in this city, and no longer fruitlessly attempt the conversion of you Jews....
IN CORINTH. Acts 18:1-17. Acts 18:1 After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth. Acts 18:2 And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, lately come from Ita...
6, 7. The increase of Paul's earnestness was responded to by an increased virulence in the opposition of the unbelieving Jews. (6) "_But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and sa...
And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. AND WHEN THEY...
3 While in Thessalonica he had been supported partly by gifts from Philippi, but now he engaged in tentmaking as a means of. livelihood. During his early days in Corinth his heart was continually occu...
18:6 pure; (c-25) Or ' _ I_ , pure [from it] from henceforth, will go to the nations.'...
BLASPHEMED] They said 'Jesus is anathema' (1 Corinthians 12:3)....
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONCLUDED) 1-18. St. Paul at Corinth. Corinth was the capital of the Roman province of Achaia. The ancient town had been entirely destroyed in 146 b.c. by the Roman general...
ST PAUL'S SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY, 49, 50 A.D. (ACTS 15:36 TO ACTS 18:22) Having secured the formal recognition by the Twelve of Gentile Christianity, St. Paul was free to resume his missionary labo...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 18 PAUL GOES TO CORINTH, 18:1-4 V1 After this, Paul left Athens and he went to Corinth. V2 In Corinth, he met a *Jew called Aquila. Aquila had...
AND WHEN THEY OPPOSED THEMSELVES, AND BLASPHEMED. — The latter word includes the reviling of which the Apostle himself was the object, as well as blaspheming against God. Assuming what has been sugges...
ἀντιτασσ.: classical use, of an army ranged in hostile array, or of those opposed to each other in opinion, Thuc., iii., 83. So in later Greek, in Polyb-generally to oppose, to resist. Ramsay renders...
A GREAT MINISTRY IN A GREAT CITY Acts 18:1 Paul tells us, in 1 Corinthians 2:1, that he entered Corinth with fear and trembling and made no effort to attract by human wisdom or eloquence. From the f...
Leaving Athens, the center of the intellectual life of Greece, Paul came to Corinth, its commercial center. There he joined Aquila, and gave himself to the work of tent-making, while reasoning on the...
Preaching in Corinth Following his normal pattern, Paul first preached in the synagogue in Corinth. During that time, Silas and Timothy once again joined the apostle's company. Silas may have come fro...
(3) And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook [his] raiment, and said unto them, Your (d) blood [be] upon your own heads; I [am] clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. ...
You see the rupture long brewing and sorrowfully anticipated by Paul is bound to come: He divides the church. They drive him out of the synagogue, just like you see going on all around you this day: s...
And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. (6) And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his...
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...
− 6._When they gainsayed. _The Jews suffered Paul after a sort until he came unto the manifest preaching of Christ. And here brake out their rage. And we must note the speech, that they go from gainsa...
At Thessalonica Paul twice received succour from Philippi; at Corinth, where money and commerce abounded, he does not take it, but quietly works with two of his countrymen of the same trade as himself...
AND WHEN THEY OPPOSED THEMSELVES,.... To the truth, and contradicted themselves in many instances, and their own prophecies; or those books which they themselves allowed to be the oracles of God, and...
And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook _his_ raiment, and said unto them, Your blood _be_ upon your own heads; I _am_ clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. Ver. 6. _...
_And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia_ Silas seems to have stayed a considerable time at Berea; but Timotheus, having come to the apostle while he was at Athens, and having been sent...
OPPOSED THEMSELVES; set themselves against him and his preaching. SHOOK HIS RAIMENT; in token of deep abhorrence of their sins. YOUR BLOOD; the guilt of your destruction. I AM CLEAN; free from blam...
AND WHEN THEY OPPOSED THEMSELVES, AND BLASPHEMED, HE SHOOK HIS RAIMENT AND SAID UNTO THEM, YOUR BLOOD BE UPON YOUR HEADS; I AM CLEAN; FROM HENCEFORTH I WILL GO UNTO THE GENTILES. Paul had intended to...
PAUL AT CORINTH. Aquila and Priscilla and the beginning of the work:...
Paul leaves Athens and is directed to Corinth, a city as loose and licentious as Athens, but where the gospel nevertheless found a response. There he found a Jew named Aquila who had come with his wif...
BUT WHEN THEY OPPOSED HIM AND BLASPHEMED, HE SHOOK _HIS_ GARMENTS AND SAID TO THEM, " YOUR BLOOD _BE_ UPON YOUR _OWN_ HEADS; I _AM_ CLEAN. FROM NOW ON I WILL GO TO THE GENTILES. " 1. The Jews in the...
"And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook out his raiment and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads;. am clean: from henceforth. will go unto the Gentiles"Opposed themselv...
1-6 Though Paul was entitled to support from the churches he planted, and from the people to whom he preached, yet he worked at his calling. An honest trade, by which a man may get his bread, is not...
BLASPHEMED; they blasphemed Paul, miscalling of him, but especially Christ, whose dishonour grieved Paul most. HE SHOOK HIS RAIMENT; his upper garment, as the manner was, MATTHEW 26:65, that none of t...
6, 7. The increase of Paul's earnestness was responded to by an increased virulence in the opposition of the unbelieving Jews. (6) "_ But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and s...
Acts 18:6 But G1161 opposed G498 (G5734) him G846 and G2532 blasphemed G987 (G5723) shook G1621 ...
SUCCESSFUL MINISTRY IN CORINTH (18:1-17). Paul had recognised that in a small town like Athens he could well spare his companions and had sent Timothy off to Thessalonica, and Silas to Macedonia, pos...
‘And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook out his raiment and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads. I am clean. From now on will go to the Gentiles.” ' The consequence of th...
Acts 18:6. AND WHEN THEY OPPOSED THEMSELVES, AND BLASPHEMED. The more than usually violent opposition of the Jews which appears from these words, and also from the apostle's sad, reproachful allusion...
WHEN THEY OPPOSED THEMSELVES (αντιτασσομενων αυτων). Genitive absolute with present middle (direct middle again) of αντιτασσω, old verb to range in battle array (τασσω) face to face with or against...
Paul had been preaching the gospel at Athens to the most famous men of that city gathered at Areopagus. Acts 18:1. _After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth:_ Another most i...
CONTENTS: Paul at Corinth. The careless Gallio. Paul takes a Jewish vow. Apollos at Ephesus. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Paul, Aquila, Priscilla, Claudius, Silas, Timothy, Justus, Crispus, Gallio, Sosthenes,...
Acts 18:2. _Claudius had commanded all jews to depart from Rome._ Suetonius says that this was on account of Chrestus, [Christ] who continually excited disturbances. This edict was issued in the ninth...
WHEN THEY OPPOSED HIM. They became hostile and said evil things against both him and the Christ he preached. HE PROTESTED. Shaking the dust off was symbolic (_see_ Luke 9:5_ and note)._ I AM NOT RESPO...
_After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth._ PAUL AT CORINTH Paul entered, not the grand, classical Corinth, but a sort of afterglow Corinth. The old city had been destroyed by...
_And he went through Syria and Cilicia confirming the churches._ PAUL AS A MODEL FOR ALL GOSPEL MINISTERS He recognises the importance of-- I. Establishing new converts in the faith. In this visit...
_And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit (R._., BY THE WORD). ENTHUSIASM JUSTIFIED 1. Different effects are produced in different minds by the proclamati...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:6 SHOOK OUT HIS GARMENTS. A gesture of rejection, much like shaking the dust from one’s feet (compare Acts 13:51; and note on M
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of witness on his second journey. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:5. PRESSED IN SPIRIT.—According to the oldest authorities this should be _was held together by the word_, συνείχετο τῷ λόγῳ—_i.e._, either earnestly occupied with the busin...
EXPOSITION ACTS 18:1 _He _for _Paul, _A.V. and T.R. AFTER THESE THINGS, etc. No hint is given by St. Luke as to the length of Paul's sojourn at Athens. But as the double journey of the Beroeans, who...
Let's turn now to the eighteenth chapter of Acts as we continue our study through the Bible. At the end of the study last week, the end of chapter seventeen, we found Paul speaking to the Epicurean an...
1 Peter 4:14; 1 Peter 4:4; 1 Thessalonians 2:14; 1 Timothy 5:22;...
Opposed themselves [α ν τ ι τ α σ σ ο μ ε ν ω ν]. Implying an organized or concerted resistance. See on resisteth, 1 Peter 5:5....
He shook his raiment — To signify he would from that time refrain from them: and to intimate, that God would soon shake them off as unworthy to be numbered among his people. I am pure — None can say t...