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Acts 16:14
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
Verse Acts 16:14. _LYDIA, A SELLER OF PURPLE_] She probably had her name from the province of _Lydia_, in which the city of _Thyatira_ was situated. The Lydian women have been celebrated for their bea...
A SELLER OF PURPLE - Purple was a most valuable color, obtained usually from shellfish. It was chiefly worn by princes and by the rich, and the traffic in it might be very profitable. Compare the Isai...
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 ...
PHILIPPI. LYDIA. The voyage from Troas to Samothrace was past Tenedos and Imbros, and Samothrace was about halfway. The voyage back took five days (Acts 20:6); this voyage only two, the wind being fav...
When we had set sail from Troas we had a straight run to Samothrace. On the next day we reached Neapolis and from there we came to Philippi which is the chief city of that section of Macedonia and a R...
A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...
SELLER OF PURPLE. Greek. _porphuropolis._ Only here. The celebrated purple dye was made from the murex,. shell-fish. Referred to by Homer. THYATIRA. On the Lycus in Lydia. Inscriptions of the guild o...
_named Lydia_ This may have been her proper name, or it may only have been that by which she passed among the colonists of Philippi, being from the _Lydian_town of Thyatira. From inscriptions which ha...
ΛΥΔΊΑ, _Lydia_. This may have been the woman’s proper name, or it may only have been that by which she passed among the colonists of Philippi, being from the _Lydian_ town of Thyatira. From inscriptio...
PREACHING ON THE SABBATH AT PHILIPPI. CONVERSION AND BAPTISM OF LYDIA. A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION CAST OUT BY ST PAUL. ANGER OF THOSE WHO MADE GAIN THEREBY. PAUL AND SILAS ARE SEIZED, BROUGHT BEFORE THE A...
_THE CONVERSION OF A GOOD WOMAN NAMED LYDIA ACTS 16:13-15:_ On the Sabbath the missionary team went out by the river to a place of prayer and talked to the women there. This was a simple place of wors...
ΛΥΔΊΑ (G3070) Лидия. Об имени смотри _см._ BASHH, 231. ΠΟΡΦΥΡΌΠΩΛΙΣ (G4211) продавец багряницы. Пурпурная краска делалась тремя способами: из моллюска мурекс (самая дорогая), из средиземноморского ду...
DISCOURSE: 1785 THE CONVERSION OF LYDIA Acts 16:14. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she...
THYATIRA,— Was a city bordering both on Asia and Lydia; and this woman seems to have derived her name from the latter on that account. She was a proselyte of the gate; that is, one who worshipped the...
AT PHILLIPPI. Acts 16:12-40 a. A description of Philippi. Acts 16:12. Acts 16:12 and from thence to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a Roman colony: and we were in...
See notes on verse 13...
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul....
40 Silas was almost necessary as a companion for Paul. The decrees provided that they should be delivered by both Barnabas and Paul, while Judas and Silas were to confirm them by word of mouth. Now th...
16:14 worshipped (a-18) See Note, ch. 13.43....
LYDIA] She came from Thyatira in Lydia, a district where there were many dyers. She was a proselyte to Judaism, and a woman of some wealth and position. As she is not mentioned in the Epistle to the P...
ST. PAUL IN EUROPE 1. Timotheus] was probably of Lystra, not Derbe. His mother Eunice was perhaps a widow, and she, together with his grandmother Lois, educated the lad in the religion of Israel, tho...
Journey into Europe, Philippi. 6. RV 'And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia.' At Lystra (Acts 16:6) they received a...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 16 TIMOTHY WORKS WITH PAUL AND SILAS, 16:1-5 V1 Paul went to Derbe and then he went to Lystra. A *Christian called Timothy lived there. Timothy...
LYDIA, A SELLER OF PURPLE, OF THE CITY OF THYATIRA. — The city so named, now known as _Ak-hissar,_ was in the Roman province of Asia, but came within the boundaries of the older kingdom of Lydia, and...
Λυδία : she may have taken her name “a solo natali,” as Grotius and others have thought, like many of the _libertinae_, Afra, Græca, Syra; but the name was a popular one for women, _cf._ its frequent...
WELCOMED; ATTESTED; IMPRISONED Acts 16:14 This was an epoch-making moment, but how quietly it is recorded. There was no heralding of the gospel which was to transform Europe. The need for it was uns...
Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in view of the recent decision of the council. Some charge him with i...
The Conversion of Lydia It customarily took ten Jewish heads of households to form a synagogue within a community. In Philippi, there was just a group of Jewish women who met by the riverside for pray...
(8) And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard [us]: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of...
Lydia, who worshipped God, a pious Jewess, preaching in that synagogue, is converted to the Christhood of Jesus. All the facts of this brief history involve the conclusion that she was a saved woman,...
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul....
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...
_THE RELIGION OF THE HEART_ ‘Whose heart the Lord opened.’ Acts 16:14 These words have not been selected with a view to dwell upon the incident with which they stand connected, full though it be of...
_LYDIA_ ‘And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken...
− 14._A woman named Lydia. _If they had been heard of a few women, yet this had been to enter in, as it were, by a strait chink; but now whereas one only heareth attentively and with fruit, might it n...
There is perhaps no example of this more remarkable than that which Paul does with regard to Timothy. He uses circumcision in all liberty to set aside Jewish prejudice. It is very doubtful whether, ac...
AND A CERTAIN WOMAN, NAMED LYDIA,.... Whether this woman was a Jewess or a Gentile, is not certain, her name will not determine; she might be called so from the country of Lydia, which was in Asia min...
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard _us_ : whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Pau...
_On the sabbath we went out of the city_ The Jews usually held their religious assemblies (either by choice or constraint) at a distance from the heathen; _by a river side_ The river Strymon, which ra...
THYATIRA; a city of Lydia, a province in Asia Minor. WORSHIPPED GOD; was a proselyte to the Jewish religion. WHOSE HEART THE LORD OPENED; inclined to believe what Paul preached. Whenever men believe...
Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who had evidently been converted through Paul on his first visit...
NOW A CERTAIN WOMAN NAMED LYDIA HEARD _US._ SHE WAS A SELLER OF PURPLE FROM THE CITY OF THYATIRA, WHO WORSHIPED GOD. THE LORD OPENED HER HEART TO HEED THE THINGS SPOKEN BY PAUL. 1. So far the specifi...
"And. certain woman named Lydia,. seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened to give heed unto the things which were spoken by Paul"Lydia...
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 suf...
LYDIA; so called from the country of that name, she being born at THYATIRA, a city therein, and now lived with her family at Philippi. WORSHIPPED GOD; being a proselyte, and one of them who had left t...
Acts 16:14 Now G2532 certain G5100 woman G1135 named G3686 Lydia G3070 heard G191 (G5707) purple G4211 city...
THE MISSION TO EUROPE (16:6-19:20). Paul's plans now seemed to begin to go awry. All doors seemed to be closing to him as in one way or another he was first hindered from going one way, and then anoth...
MINISTRY IN PHILIPPI FROM THE HOUSE OF LYDIA (16:12B-40). The arrival in Europe was clearly seen by Luke as very important. He illustrates the successful ministry there by a threefold description of P...
‘And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, one who worshipped God, heard us, whose heart the Lord opened to give heed to the things which were spoken by Paul.' Among...
Acts 16:14. LYDIA, A SELLER OF PURPLE, OF THE CITY OF THYATIRA. The city of Thyatira, on the confines of Lydia and Mysia, and one of the seven churches of Asia addressed in the Apocalypse, was celebra...
LYDIA (Λυδια). Her birthplace was Thyatira in Lydia. She may have been named after the land, though Lydia is a common female name (see Horace). Lydia was itself a Macedonian colony (Strabo, XIII. 4)...
Acts 16:14 The Conversion of Lydia. I. Lydia was listening: "And a certain woman named Lydia, heard us." Great stress is laid in the Bible on hearing: "Faith cometh by hearing." II. Lydia listened a...
Acts 16:9. _And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us._ Our dreams often follow the leading thoughts of...
CONTENTS: Paul finds Timothy. Paul's Macedonian vision. The first convert in Europe. Demons cast out of a damsel. Paul and Silas beaten. Conversion of the Philippian jailer. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
Acts 16:1. _Then came he to Lystra,_ as in Acts 14:6. In their former labours in that city, Lois a jewess, her daughter Eunice, and Timothy her son, had embraced the faith. Now, they found Timothy gro...
TO THE RIVERSIDE. The Gangas, a small river. A Jewish place for prayer. Evidently, there was no synagogue. A few devout Jews, mostly women, met on the river banks to worship God. And talked to the wom...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:14 LYDIA came from THYATIRA (see notes on Rev. 2:18–29), a city of the province of Asia in the district of Lydia, for which she may have been named. As a...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:11 Philippi was the first Macedonian city in which Paul witnessed. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 16:14. LYDIA.—“Certainly a proper name, not a patronymic” (Zöckler). “She had probably become addicted to Jewish religious practices in her native city” (Ramsay). THYATIRA.—A...
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,...
We remember at the end of our study last week there arose a contention between Paul and Barnabas who had been close companions on the first missionary venture of the church. But because Barnabas was i...
1 Corinthians 3:6; 1 Corinthians 3:7; 2 Corinthians 3:14; 2 Corinthians 4:4;...
Lydia. An adjective : the Lydian; but as Lydia was a common name among the Greeks and Romans, it does not follow that she was named from her native country. A seller of purple. On purple, see note on...
A worshipper of God — Probably acquainted with the prophetic writings whose heart the Lord opened — The Greek word properly refers to the opening of the eyes: and the heart has its eyes, Ephesians 1:1...