Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Acts 18:15
but if it be a question of words and names and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
but if it be a question of words and names and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
Verse Acts 18:15. _BUT IF IT BE A QUESTION OF WORDS_] περι λογου, Concerning _doctrine and names_ - whether the person called _Jesus_ be the person you call the _Messiah_. _And_ of _your law_ - any p...
OF WORDS - A dispute about words, for such he would regard all their controversies about religion to be. AND NAMES - Probably he had heard something of the nature of the controversy, and understood it...
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...
GALLIO AND PAUL. Gallio's proconsulship is fixed by an inscription at Delphi which came to light in 1905; and gives an absolute date in Pauline chronology (p. 655). He had not been proconsul when Paul...
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...
When Gallio was proconsul of Asia, the Jews got together to make an attack on Paul. They brought him to the judgment seat and said, "This man seduces men to worship God contrary to the Law." When Paul...
A QUESTION. Greek. _zetema._ See note on Acts 15:2. The texts read "questions". WORDS. a word. Greek. _logos._ App-121. YOUR LAW. the law (that is) with (Greek. _kata._ App-104.) you. LOOK, &C. = l...
_But if_ THEY ARE QUESTIONS ABOUT _words and names_ The oldest authorities give the plural "questions," and there would no doubt have been many points brought forward from St Paul's teaching to which...
ΖΗΤΉΜΑΤΑ with אABDE. _Vulg._ ‘quaestiones.’ γὰρ after ΚΡΙΤῊΣ omitted with אABD. Not represented in _Vulg_. 15. ΕἸ ΔῈ ΖΗΤΉΜΑΤΆ ἘΣΤΙΝ ΠΕΡῚ ΛΌΓΟΥ ΚΑῚ ὈΣΝΟΜΆΤΩΝ, _but if they are questions about words a...
PAUL IS ACCUSED BEFORE GALLIO, WHO DECLINES TO CONSIDER THE CHARGE AGAINST HIM. IN CONSEQUENCE, THE POPULACE FALL AT ONCE ON SOSTHÉNES, A CHIEF MAN AMONG THE JEWS, BUT GALLIO LETS THEIR ASSAULT PASS U...
_THE COLDNESS OF GALLIO TOWARD PAUL ACTS 18:12-17:_ The Jews brought Paul before Gallio's judgment seat saying, "This man is teaching the people to give worship to God in a way which is against the la...
ΌΨΕΣΘΕ _fut. ind._ rn.ed. _(dep.) от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть. Волитивный FUT. со _знач. imper._ (RG, 874; VA, 420). ΚΡΙΤΉΣ ΈΓ ΤΟΎΤΩΝ ΟΎ ΒΟΎΛΟΜΑΙ ΕΊΝΑΙ "Судьей в этих вопросах я не желаю быть". Это точны...
BUT IF IT BE A QUESTION OF WORDS— _But since your dispute is only about words, and names, and your own law, you must decide it yourselves._ The truth is, that religious and civil affairs are of an ent...
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...
See notes on verse 14...
But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters. BUT IF IT BE A QUESTION - or, rather 'questions' (according to what is evidently...
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...
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...
BUT IF IT BE A QUESTION OF WORDS AND NAMES, AND OF YOUR LAW. — The second noun is in the singular number in the Greek. St. Paul was known as a speaker, one who preached the _word_ of God, and with tha...
If we read the plural ζητήματα we may regard it as expressing contempt: “a parcel of questions,” Alford; but if they are questions of word (teaching) not deed (opposite ἔργον, _factum_) and of names n...
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...
But if it be a question of (h) words and (i) names, and [of] your law, look ye [to it]; for I will be no judge of such [matters]. (h) As if a man has not spoken well, as judged by your religion. (i)...
PAUL'S TRIAL BEFORE GALLIO 12-17. This case is really notable. When Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue is converted, Sosthenes succeeds him and is enthusiastic to exterminate the Pauline heresy...
And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, (13) Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary...
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...
− 15._Of words and names. _These words are not well packed together. Yet Gallio speaketh thus of the law of God by way of contempt, as if the Jewish religion did consist only in words and superfluous...
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...
BUT IF IT BE A QUESTION OF WORDS,.... "Or of the word", what the Jews called the word of God, which Gallio did not pretend to understand: "and names"; as the names of God, of Jesus, and of Christ, whe...
But if it be a question of words and names, and _of_ your law, look ye _to it_; for I will be no judge of such _matters_. Ver. 15. _A question of words or names_] Gallio esteemed no better of divine...
_And when Paul was now about to open his mouth_ To speak in his own defence; _Gallio_ Sensible of the futility of the charge; _said to the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong, or wicked lewdness_ With...
A QUESTION OF WORDS AND NAMES; merely about their religion....
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 IF IT IS A QUESTION OF WORDS AND NAMES AND YOUR OWN LAW, LOOK _TO IT_ YOURSELVES; FOR I DO NOT WANT TO BE A JUDGE OF SUCH _MATTERS._ " 1. This is not a matter of Roman law. This is a matter of re...
"but if there are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves;. am not minded to be. judge of these matters"Questions" "Plural, contemptuous, 'a parcel of questions'" (Robe...
12-17 Paul was about to show that he did not teach men to worship God contrary to law; but the judge would not allow the Jews to complain to him of what was not within his office. It was right in Gal...
A QUESTION OF WORDS; which have been spoken about the controversies of religion. AND NAMES; as, whether Jesus was to be called Christ or the Messiah; and whether his disciples might be called Christia...
Acts 18:15 But G1161 if G1487 is G2076 (G5748) question G2213 of G4012 words G3056 and G2532 names...
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...
‘But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked villainy, O you Jews, reason would that I should bear with you, but if they are q...
Acts 18:15. BUT IF IT BE A QUESTION OF WORDS AND NAMES, AND OF YOUR LAW, LOOK YE TO IT; FOR I WILL BE NO JUDGE OF SUCH MATTERS. If the question turned merely upon a word [the Greek equivalent here is...
QUESTIONS (ζητηματα). Plural, contemptuous, "a parcel of questions" (Knowling).ABOUT WORDS (περ λογου). Word, singular, talk, not deed or fact (εργον, φαχτυμ).AND NAMES (κα ονοματων). As to whe...
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 GALLIO WAS MADE. Ramsay thinks this was in the summer of 52 A.D. Gallio's brother, Seneca, was the teacher of Nero. SEIZED PAUL AND TOOK HIM INTO COURT. This implies they could not stir up a mob...
_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 Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection._ GALLIO AND PAUL The proconsul of Achaia had ended his term of office, and the proconsul appointed by the emperor was Marcus Ann...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of witness on his second journey. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:12. GALLIO.—Gallio became proconsul towards the end of Claudius’s reign, about A.D. 53. His character, as depicted by ancient writers, corresponded with that revealed in Luk...
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 Timothy 1:4; 1 Timothy 6:4; 2 Timothy 2:23; Acts 23:29; Acts 24:6;...
Question. The best texts read the plural, guests. See on ch. Acts 14:2. Judge. In the Greek the position of the word is emphatic, at the beginning of the sentence : "Judge of these matters I am not mi...
But if it be — He speaks with the utmost coolness and contempt, a question of names — The names of the heathen gods were fables and shadows. But the question concerning the name of Jesus is of more im...