Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Acts 9:18
Scales, as scales of fish: it was no ordinary blindness, nor from any ordinary cause, and could not have been cured by common means.
Scales, as scales of fish: it was no ordinary blindness, nor from any ordinary cause, and could not have been cured by common means.
ACTS 9:18 avne,bleye,n te In order to heighten the account concerning the restoration of Paul’s eyesight, paracrh/ma is added by C2 E L many minuscules syrp copsa armmss eth Chrysostom. The gloss cam...
Verse Acts 9:18. _THERE FELL FROM HIS EYES AS IT HAD BEEN SCALES_] This was real: he had been so dazzled with the brightness of the light that we may suppose the globe of the eye, and particularly th...
AS IT HAD BEEN SCALES - ὡσεὶ λεπίδες hōsei lepides. The word ὡσεὶ hōsei, “as it had been,” is designed to qualify the following word. It is not said that scales literally fell from his eyes, bu...
CHAPTER 9 __ 1. The vision of Glory on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1). 2. Instructions given to Ananias (Acts 9:10). 3. Saul filled with the Spirit, is baptized and preaches that Jesus is the Son...
PAUL'S CONVERSION. This belongs geographically to the field of the Hellenist mission, which was announced in Acts 8:4, and occupied that whole chapter. We heard of that mission at Samaria and Cæ sarea...
There was a disciple in Damascus called Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias." He said, "Here am I Lord." The Lord said to him, "Get up and go to the street called 'Straight'; inqui...
SURRENDER (Acts 9:1-9)...
IMMEDIATELY. straightway. Greek. _eutheos,_ FELL. fell away. Greek. _apopipto._ Only here. SCALES. Greek. _lepis._ Only here in NT. In Septuagint, Leviticus 11:9; Leviticus 11:10. &C. FORTHWITH. Gre...
_And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales_ The word rendered "scales" is used as a technical term for a disease of the eye by Hippocrates, and the verb derived from it is found ...
SAUL’S SIGHT RESTORED. HE PREACHES IN DAMASCUS...
ὩΣ for ὡσεὶ with אAB. παραχρῆμα omitted with אABCHP. Not represented in _Vulg_. 18. ὩΣ ΛΕΠΊΔΕΣ, _as it had been scales_. The word λεπίς is used by Hippocrates as a technical term for a disease of the...
_THE CONVERSION OF SAUL ACTS 9:1-18:_ Saul's early training helped him to be a very sincere man. However, as important as sincerity is we must remember that sincerity may be just as real in the heart...
ΆΠΈΠΕΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΠΊΠΤΩ (G634) спадать, ΛΕΠΊΣ (G3013) чешуйчатой вещество, чешуя (LC; о медицинском использовании этого термина _см._ MLL, 39). ΆΝΈΒΛΕΨΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 9:1...
THERE FELL FROM HIS EYES AS IT HAD BEEN SCALES:— Perhaps the outward coats of his eyes might have been scorched by the heat of that splendid light which he had seen; and what fell from them, might hav...
THE CONVERSION AND EARLY LABORS OF SAUL Acts 9:1-30; Galatians 1:17-24 For a moment let us pause and look back over the pathway of the narrative, Luke has given the following events since the beginni...
IN DAMASCUS. Acts 9:8 b - Acts 9:22. Acts 9:8 b and they led him by the hand, and brought him to Damascus. Acts 9:9 And he was three days without sight, and di
See notes on verse 17...
And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized. AND IMMEDIATELY THERE FELL FROM HIS EYES AS IT HAD BEEN SCALES, [ hoose...
10 God graciously gives a double witness to His dealing with Saul. Ananias is quite his opposite, being a devout disciple. Saul would have found it almost impossible to join the disciples as he did wi...
SAUL BECOMES A CHRISTIAN 1-30. The Conversion of Saul is to regarded as a miraculous event. The way for it may have been prepared by Stephen's speech, by the spectacle of the constancy of the Christia...
AND WAS BAPTIZED] It is added (Acts 22:16) that St. Paul received at his baptism the remission of his former sins. The three accounts of St. Paul's conversion (Acts 9:22; Acts 9:26) present some not v...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 9 JESUS APPEARS IN FRONT OF SAUL, 9:1-9 V1 Saul was still saying that he would hurt the *Lord’s *disciples. He said that he would kill them. He...
THERE FELL FROM HIS EYES AS IT HAD BEEN SCALES. — The description suggests the thought that the blindness was caused by an incrustation, caused by acute inflammation, covering the pupil of the eye, or...
καὶ εὐθέως : as the immediate result of the laying on of hands the recovery of sight is given, but the baptism follows for the reception of the Holy Ghost, _cf._ Acts 22:13 ff. ἀπέπεσον … ὡσεὶ λ.: the...
OPENED EYES Acts 9:10-22 How graciously God makes use of prepared souls as partners in the work of salvation! It would have been easy for the risen Lord to have Himself completed what He had begun; o...
Opposition, the leader of which seems to have been Saul, continued. Armed with letters from the high priest, he attempted to put an end to the Nazarene heresy. It was on his journey with this intent t...
Saul Baptized by Ananias Luke told Theophilus that "a certain disciple," not an apostle or preacher, saw a vision from the Lord. It must have been a shock for Ananias to hear the Lord tell him to go t...
And there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord. (11) And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the...
We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in var...
18._There fell from his eyes as it had been scales. _The blindness of Paul, as we have said before did not proceed from fear alone or from amazedness; but by this means was he admonished of his former...
A work and a workman of another character begin now to dawn upon the scene. We have seen the inveterate opposition of the heads of Israel to the testimony of the Holy Ghost, their obstinacy in repelli...
AND IMMEDIATELY THERE FELL FROM HIS EYES, AS IT HAD BEEN SCALES,.... Which were little thin skins or films, like the scales of fishes, which were formed from the defluxions that fell from his brain, t...
And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized. Ver. 18. _There fell from his eyes_] God also at the same time tore the c...
_And Ananias went his way_ With all readiness and joy undertook the message, not presuming to object any further; _and entered into the house_ To which he had been so particularly directed; _and putti...
AND IMMEDIATELY THERE FELL FROM HIS EYES AS IT HAD BEEN SCALES; AND HE RECEIVED SIGHT FORTHWITH, AND AROSE, AND WAS BAPTIZED....
The baptism of Saul:...
Philip the evangelist is now put in the background, as the Spirit of God begins a work of another kind, using a most unexpected workman. Saul was filled with strongest animosity toward the disciples,...
IMMEDIATELY THERE FELL FROM HIS EYES _SOMETHING_ LIKE SCALES, AND HE RECEIVED HIS SIGHT AT ONCE; AND HE AROSE AND WAS BAPTIZED. 1. His physical eyes were opened. 2. His spiritual eyes have also been...
"And straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he received his sight; and he arose and was baptized" "As it were scales" "Luke does not say that actual scales came off his eyes, but...
10-22 A good work was begun in Saul, when he was brought to Christ's feet with those words, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And never did Christ leave any who were brought to that. Behold, the pr...
Acts 9:18 G2532 Immediately G2112 fell G634 (G5627) from G575 his G846 eyes G3788 like G5616 scales...
SAUL'S EXPERIENCE ON THE DAMASCUS ROAD (9:1-19)....
‘And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he received his sight, and he arose and was baptised, and he took food and was strengthened. And he was certain days with the disciples...
Acts 9:18. THERE FELL FROM HIS EYES AS IT HAD BEEN SCALES. A good deal has been written on the nature of the injury which Saul's eyes had suffered. The blinding glare of the light from heaven which su...
FELL OFF (απεπεσαν). Second aorist active indicative (note--an ending like first aorist) of αποπιπτω, old verb, but here alone in the N.T.AS IF IT WERE SCALES (ως λεπιδες). Chiefly late word (LXX)...
Acts 9:1 Early History and Conversion of Paul. Viewed as a public event in the history of the Christian Church, the conversion of Paul furnishes new and independent testimony to the Divine origin of...
Acts 9:1 The Conversion of St. Paul. That blessed war of aggression which Jesus Christ wages upon the evil one is a war which is made to maintain itself. Christ's soldiers are His captured enemies. E...
Acts 9:1. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,-_ Notice that little word «yet.» «Saul yet breathing out threatenings a...
L, 2. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings, and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found...
Acts 9:1. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he fou...
CONTENTS: Conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Paul preaches and visits Jerusalem and returns to Tarsus. Peter heals Aeneas. Tabitha raised from the dead. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Saul, disciples, hi...
Acts 9:1. _Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord._ Not less than two thousand of them, who fell in this storm, were massacred indiscriminately. If what i...
SOMETHING LIKE FISH SCALES. As soon as Ananias says "Brother Saul, see again!" this happens. HE STOOD UP AND WAS BAPTIZED. J.F. Bethune-Baker, in _An Introduction to the Early History of Christian Doc...
_And suddenly there shined round about him a light from heave._ THE HEAVENLY LIGHT As the supernatural reflects the moral in all the miracles of the Bible, so in the conversion of St. Paul. We have...
_And Ananias,…putting his hands on him said, brother Saul._ SAUL CONVERTED I. The ministry which helps to complete the great change. If the appearance of the Lord to the persecutor was miraculous, t...
_And there was a certain disciple at Damascus called Ananias._ ANANIAS OF DAMASCUS 1. Most people have watched a little steam tug busily towing some great ship down stream or out into the sea. The tu...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 9:18 SOMETHING LIKE SCALES FELL FROM HIS EYES. This physical event was a symbol that Saul’s spiritual blindness had been overcome. He could now see and understand the truth (see...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 9:1 In chs. Acts 6:1 Luke deals primarily with the witness of the Jerusalem church among the dispersed Greek-speaking Jews (the “Hellenists”) and with the apostle Peter. The conversi...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 9:10. That ANANIAS (see on Acts 9:1) was one of the Seventy is an unsupported conjecture; that he was a “devout” man Saul afterwards asserts (Acts 22:12); that he had previousl...
EXPOSITION ACTS 9:1 _But _for _and, _A.V.; _breathing _for _breathing out, _A.V.; _threatening _for _threatenings, _A.V. THREATENING AND SLAUGHTER. The phrase ἐμπνέων ἀπειλῆς κ.τ.λ., is rather a...
When Alexander the Great conquered the world, he left pockets of Greek culture throughout the world. So these pockets of Greek culture became very influential. And even though the Roman Empire conquer...
2 Corinthians 3:14; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Acts 13:12; Acts 13:13; A
There fell - scales [α π ε π ε σ ο ν - λ ε π ι δ ε ς]. Both words occur only here in the New Testament. In Paul's own account of his conversion in ch. 26. he does not mention his blindness : in ch. 22...
SAUL SAVED TO SERVE Acts 9:18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Following his baptism Saul received meat for his famished body, and was strengthened. Then Saul entered into a new comradeship with believers; a comr...
SAUL'S CONVERSION: A PATTERN AND A PROPHECY 1 Timothy 1:15; _with Acts 9:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We marvel, therefore, that what God wrought in Saul's conversion on the Damascus road is as vital a pa...