Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 17:16
While Paul was waiting for the — Having no design, as it seems, to preach at Athens, but his zeal for God drew him into it unawares, without staying till his companions came.
While Paul was waiting for the — Having no design, as it seems, to preach at Athens, but his zeal for God drew him into it unawares, without staying till his companions came.
Verse Acts 17:16. _HE SAW THE CITY WHOLLY GIVEN TO IDOLATRY._] κατειδωλον, _Full of idols_, as the _margin_ has it, and very properly. Whoever examines the remains of this city, as represented by Mr....
NOW WHILE PAUL WAITED - How long he was there is not intimated; but doubtless some time would elapse before they could arrive. In the meantime Paul had ample opportunity to observe the state of the ci...
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. The Gospel in Thessalonica (Acts 17:1)._ 2. The Gospel in Beroea (Acts 17:10). 3. Paul in Athens (Acts 17:15). Three cities in which the Gospel is next preached are before us in thi...
PAUL AT ATHENS. Athens was at this time no longer the intellectual centre of the world, nor the best of the leading schools of philosophy; but the fame of the city drew many to it, and a visit to Athe...
IN THESSALONICA (Acts 17:1-9)...
When Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was deeply vexed as he saw the whole city full of idols. He debated with the Jews and the worshippers in the synagogue and every day he talked in t...
WAITED. Greek. _ekdechomai._ Here, Joh 5:3. 1 Corinthians 11:33; 1 Corinthians 16:11.Hebrews 10:13; Hebrews 11:10
Paul, provoked by the prevalence of idolatry at Athens, first addresses the Jews and then the Gentiles. Some of the philosophers question him on his teaching, and bring him to the areopagus that they...
PAUL, PROVOKED BY THE PREVALENCE OF IDOLATRY AT ATHENS, FIRST ADDRESSES THE JEWS AND THEN THE GENTILES. SOME OF THE PHILOSOPHERS QUESTION HIM ON HIS TEACHING, AND BRING HIM TO THE AREOPAGUS THAT THEY...
ΠΑΡΩΞΎΝΕΤΟ ΤῸ ΠΝΕΥ͂ΜΑ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ ἘΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι, _his spirit was stirred in him_. But the stirring was of the sharpest. It was a _paroxysm_. He was provoked till he could not forbear, could not hold his peac...
_AN ALTAR TO AN UNKNOWN GOD ACTS 17:16-23:_ While Paul waited for his co-workers his spirit was stirred by all the idolatry in Athens. He saw a city "full of idols." Paul had discussions, (1) in the S...
ΈΚΔΕΧΟΜΈΝΟΥ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (temp.) от_ ΈΚΔΈΧΟΜΑΙ (G1551) ожидать, ждать. _Gen. abs._ О городе Афины _см._ David W.J.Gill, "Achaia" BAFCS, 2:441-48; TAA; Daniel J.Geagan, "Roman Athens: Some...
HIS SPIRIT WAS STIRRED IN HIM,— The word παρωξυνετο signifies that a _sharp edge_ was as it were set upon his spirit, and that he was wrought up to a great eagerness of zeal. Yet it is observable, tha...
IN ATHENS. Acts 17:14 b - Acts 17:34. a. The brethren from Berea go with Paul as far as Athens and take back a command for the coming of Silas and Timothy. Acts 17:14 b -...
See notes on verse 15...
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. NOW WHILE PAUL WAITED FOR THEM AT ATHENS, HIS SPIRIT WAS STIRRED, [ parooxune...
1 Luke seems to have remained behind at Philippi, for the narrative now proceeds in the third person. Timothy also tarried, for no one was more genuinely solicitous of the welfare of the infant eccles...
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONTINUED) 1-15. Thessalonica and Berœa. 1. Amphipolis] 32 m. W. of Philippi. APOLLONIA] 30 m. W. of Amphipolis. THESSALONICA] now Salonika, was the capital of the provin...
WHOLLY GIVEN TO IDOLATRY] Xenophon calls Athens 'one altar, one sacrifice and offering to the gods.' St. Paul, as a Jew, would have no sympathy with the artistic beauty of the Athenian statues and tem...
ATHENS. After leaving Berœa, St. Paul entered the Roman province of Achaia, which was at this time a senatorian province, governed by a proconsul, and of which the capital was Corinth. He first visite...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 17 PAUL AND SILAS GO TO THESSALONICA, 17:1-4 V1 Paul and Silas travelled through Amphipolis and Apollonia. They came to Thessalonica. There was...
HIS SPIRIT WAS STIRRED IN HIM. — The verb is the root of the noun from which we get our “paroxysm,” and which is translated by “sharp contention” in Acts 15:39. Athens, glorying now, as it had done in...
CHAPTER 13 ST. PAUL IN GREECE. Acts 17:16; Acts 18:1 THERE are parallelisms in history which are very striking, and yet these parallelisms can be easily explained. The stress and strain of difficult...
CHAPTER 12 ST. PAUL IN MACEDONIA. Acts 16:29; Acts 17:1; Acts 17:10 TROAS was at this time the termination of St. Paul's Asiatic travels. He had passed diagonally right through Asia Minor, followin...
CHAPTER 12 ST. PAUL IN MACEDONIA. Acts 16:29; Acts 17:1; Acts 17:10 TROAS was at this time the termination of St. Paul's Asiatic travels. He had passed diagonally right through Asia Minor, followin...
ἐκδεχομένου, _cf._ 1 Corinthians 11:33; 1 Corinthians 16:11, rare in classical Greek in this sense. παρωξύνετο : “was provoked,” R.V., only found elsewhere in N.T. in St. Paul's own description of ἀγά...
STIRRED BY IDOLATRY Acts 17:13 From the first, the gospel was baptized in the fire of persecution. How unutterable the loneliness and sorrow of the Apostle as he reached Athens! Did doubt ever enter...
At Thessalonica and Berea the apostle visited the synagogues, and again in each case persecution arose from the Jews. A sentence which fell from the lips of the leader of the mob shows with what rapid...
Paul and the Athenian Philosophers While he waited, Paul apparently toured the city and discovered it was totally given over to idolatry. This provoked, or one might say angered, him. He went to the s...
(9) Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was (f) stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to (g) idolatry. (9) In comparing the wisdom of God with man's wisdom, men scoff and...
Lactanius ridicules the folly of idolatry in a neat strain of irony, which he introduces by the following verses from Lucilius: Ut pueri infantes credunt signa omnia ahena Vivere et esse homines; sic...
PAUL AT ATHENS 16-33. While Timothy and Silas prosecute the work in the upper country, Paul and Luke spend the time at Athens, the world's grand emporium of science, literature, philosophy, and idolat...
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. (17) Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout 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...
_THE GREAT UNIVERSITY CITY OF THE WORLD_ ‘How while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him, as he beheld the city full of idols.’ Acts 17:16 (R.V.) St. Paul was too sens...
− 16._Was sore grieved. _Though Paul, whithersoever he came, did stoutly execute that function of teaching which he knew was enjoined with him, yet Luke showeth that he was more incensed and moved at...
In the last case it was the power exercised by the enemy over the passions of the Gentiles that caused the persecution of the apostles: at Thessalonica we again find the old and universal enmity of th...
NOW WHILE PAUL WAITED FOR THEM AT ATHENS..... That is, for Silas and Timotheus: HIS SPIRIT WAS STIRRED IN HIM; not only his soul was troubled and his heart was grieved, but he was exasperated and pro...
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. Ver. 16. _His spirit was stirred_] The word παρωξυνετο signifies, he was almost...
_While he waited for them at Athens_ Namely, for Silas and Timothy; _his spirit was stirred in him_ Greek, παρωξυνετο, _was disquieted, vexed_, filled with grief and indignation; _when he saw the city...
Men may be renowned for human learning, and greatly attached to rites and forms of devotion, and yet be ignorant of the only proper object and way of religious worship, and be sunk in deep degradation...
PAUL IN ATHENS. The arrival and the first discussions:...
NOW, WHILE PAUL WAITED FOR THEM AT ATHENS, HIS SPIRIT WAS STIRRED IN HIM WHEN HE SAW THE CITY WHOLLY GIVEN TO IDOLATRY....
From Philippi Paul and his company travelled westward in Greece to Thessalonica (also in Macedonia). A Jewish synagogue being there, they attended this for three sabbath days, reasoning with the Jews...
NOW WHILE PAUL WAITED FOR THEM AT ATHENS, HIS SPIRIT WAS PROVOKED WITHIN HIM WHEN HE SAW THAT THE CITY WAS GIVEN OVER TO IDOLS. 1. Paul arrives in Athens, Greece and waits for Silas and Timothy to ca...
WHOLLY GIVEN TO IDOLATRY: Or, full of idols...
"Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols"Paul waited for them at Athens" The word them refers to Timothy and Silas (Acts 17:15)...
16-21 Athens was then famed for polite learning, philosophy, and the fine arts; but none are more childish and superstitious, more impious, or more credulous, than some persons, deemed eminent for le...
HIS SPIRIT WAS STIRRED IN HIM; moved, and sharpened, being highly affected with divers passions: 1. With grief, for so learned, and yet blind and miserable a place. 2. With zeal, and a holy desire t...
Acts 17:16 Now G1161 Paul G3972 waited G1551 (G5740) them G846 at G1722 Athens G116 his G846 spirit...
‘Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols.' While he was awaiting the first arrival of Silas and Timothy, Paul walked around the...
EFFECTIVE MINISTRY IN ATHENS (17:15-34). His Berean guides saw Paul safely to Athens. This had not been where he was originally aiming for. After Thessalonica his intention had probably been to procee...
Acts 17:16. HIS SPIRIT WAS STIRRED UP IN HIM. The whole aspect of Athens was strangely repugnant to Paul; the great cities he was acquainted with, such as Antioch in the east and Thessalonica in the w...
NOW WHILE PAUL WAITED FOR THEM IN ATHENS (Εν δε ταις Αθηναις εκδεχομενου αυτους του Παυλου). Genitive absolute with present middle participle of εκδεχομα, old verb to receive, but only with the sens...
STIRRED Provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols....
Acts 17:16 Observe Three Things in this Passage. I. What St. Paul saw at Athens. He saw a city wholly given to idolatry. Idols met his eye in every street. The temples of idol gods and goddesses occu...
CONTENTS: Founding of church at Thessalonica and the Jewish opposition. Paul and Silas at Berea. Paul at Athens and the sermon from Mars' hill. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Silas, Jason, Caesar, philoso...
Acts 17:1. _When they had passed through Amphipolis._ Boiste adds the Roman name _Emboli._ It was built by Simon, the Athenian commander. It stood on an island formed in the river Strymon, and was cal...
WHILE PAUL WAS WAITING IN ATHENS. Some think he had intended to wait until the others came, before beginning his work. HE WAS GREATLY UPSET. PAROKSUNETO: burning with anger [righteous indignation]. He...
_And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athena _ PAUL AT ATHENS I. The place which the apostle visited. Athens. II. The feelings of which he was the subject. Not of admiration at the masterp...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 17:16 ATHENS was filled with temples and statues of the Greek gods. The great temple to Athena (the Parthenon), stood alongside other temples atop the acropolis overlooking the city....
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 17:16. ATHENS.—Described by Milton (_Paradise Regained_, Acts 4:20) as “the eye of Greece,” and “the mother of arts and eloquence.” The capital of Attica was situated about fiv...
EXPOSITION ACTS 17:1 AMPHIPOLIS. This was the ancient capital of that division of Macedonia (Macedonia Prima); see Acts 16:12, note. It was situated on the Via Egnatia, thirty-four miles southwest f...
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews (Acts 17:1): Now Luke passes that off in one verse. From Philippi to Amph...
1 Kings 19:10; 1 Kings 19:14; 2 Peter 2:7; Acts 17:23; Exodus 32:19;...
Was stirred [π α ρ ω ξ υ ν ε τ ο]. Better, as Rev., provoked. See on the kindred word contention [π α ρ ο ξ υ σ μ ο ς], ch. 14 39. Saw [θ ε ω ρ ο υ ν τ ι]. Better, beheld. See on Luke 10:18. Wholly g...