Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 18:1
Paul departing from Athens — He did not stay there long. The philosophers there were too easy, too indolent, and too wise in their own eyes to receive the Gospel.
Paul departing from Athens — He did not stay there long. The philosophers there were too easy, too indolent, and too wise in their own eyes to receive the Gospel.
ACTS 18:1 evk {B} The insertion of the subject was apparently made in the interest of clarifying the passage when it was read as the opening sentence of an ecclesiastical lesson. Certainly if the wo...
CHAPTER XVIII. _Paul, leaving Athens, comes to Corinth, meets with Aquila and_ _Priscilla, and labours with them at tent-making_, 1-3. _He preaches, and proves that Jesus was the Christ_, 4, 5. _T...
AFTER THESE THINGS - After what occurred at Athens, as recorded in the previous chapter. CAME TO CORINTH - Corinth was the capital of Achaia, called anciently Ephyra, and was seated on the isthmus whi...
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...
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...
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...
PAUL. Texts read "he". DEPARTED. See Acts 1:1; Acts 1:4. TO. Greek. _eis._ App-104. Probably in spring of A.D. 52. See App-180. CORINTH. At this time the political capital of Greece and seat of the...
Acts 18:1. 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 1. _After these things Paul departed_ The...
δὲ after ΜΕΤᾺ omitted with אAB. Not represented in _Vulg_. ὁ Παῦλος omitted with אBD. Not represented in _Vulg_. 1. ΜΕΤᾺ ΤΑΥ͂ΤΑ ΧΩΡΙΣΘΕῚΣ … ἯΛΘΕΝ, _after these things he departed and came_. The ὁ Πα...
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...
ΧΩΡΙΣΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass. (dep.) part. (temp.) от_ ΧΩΡΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G5563) покидать, ΉΛΘΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) идти, приходить. О городе Коринф _см._ James Wiseman, "Corinth and Rome I: 228 В....
TO CORINTH;— Achaia Propria was a part of Greece, and _Corinth_ the metropolis of Achaia Propria. It was a famous mart town; for, by standing in the middle of the isthmus, it had the trade of both the...
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...
XVIII: 1. Having met with so little encouragement in the literary capital of Greece, the apostle next resorts to its chief commercial emporium. (1) “_After these things Paul departed from Athens, and...
After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; Paul, Arriving at Corinth, Takes UP his Abode with Aquila, (18:1-3) AFTER THESE THINGS PAUL - or 'And he' (the authorities for bo...
19 The hill called the Areopagus (Latin, Mars' Hill), just a few steps above the Market Place, was a most fitting forum for the folly of God to defeat the wisdom of the world. At Rome Paul's weakness...
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...
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...
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...
XVIII. (1) AND CAME TO CORINTH. — The journey may have been either by land along the Isthmus of Corinth, or by sea from the Piræus to Cenchreæ. The position of Corinth on the Isthmus, with a harbour o...
6-18 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 di...
μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα : in continuation of the narrative, _cf._ Luke 10:1. χωρισθεὶς : in Acts 1:4 with ἀπό, and so usually only here with ἐκ, departure from Athens emphasised, because events had compelled th...
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...
Paul Travelled to Corinth Luke did not explain why Paul left Athens or how he journeyed on to Corinth (Acts 18:1). The apostle may have grown weary of the so called intellectuals of Athens who continu...
After (1) these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; (1) The true ministers are so far from seeking their own profit, that they willingly depart from what is rightfully theirs, rath...
After Paul's rejection by the grave council of the Areopagus, leaving Athens, he traveled on southwest eighty miles to the beautiful and magnificent city of Corinth, standing on a rich plain immediate...
CONTENTS We have the great Apostle Paul here represented as working with his Hands for his daily Bread. He preacheth at Corinth. He is opposed by the Jews. He is encouraged by a Vision. He departs to...
After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth; (2) And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; because that (Claudius had...
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...
− 1.This history is worthy to be remembered even for this one cause, because it containeth the first beginning of the Church of Corinthus, which, as it was famous for good causes, both because of the...
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...
AFTER THESE THINGS,.... The Arabic version renders it, "after these words, or discourses"; after the apostle's disputation with the philosophers, and his sermon in the Areopagus, the effects of which...
After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; Ver. 1. _And came to Corinth_] A city very rich, but very loose and luxurious. _Magna cognatio ut rei sic nominis, divitiis et vitii...
_And after these things Paul departed_, &c. After having so unsuccessfully preached to the philosophers and others in Athens, the apostle judged it needless any longer to attempt the conversion of men...
CORINTH; the capital of Achaia, a province of Greece....
AFTER THESE THINGS PAUL DEPARTED FROM ATHENS AND CAME TO CORINTH,...
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...
AFTER THESE THINGS PAUL DEPARTED FROM ATHENS AND WENT TO CORINTH. 1. Paul is still alone. Luke remains at Philippi. Silas and Timothy are at Berea. 2. All the team will eventually be joined together...
"After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth"Came to Corinth" "The journey may have been either by land along the Isthmus of Corinth, or by sea from Piraesus to Cenchrea.' (Reese p...
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...
ACTS CHAPTER 18 ACTS 18:1 Paul worketh for his subsistence, and preacheth Christ at Corinth, first to the Jews, and, upon their opposing and blaspheming, to the Gentiles with more success. ACTS 18:9 H...
XVIII: 1. Having met with so little encouragement in the literary capital of Greece, the apostle next resorts to its chief commercial emporium. (1) “_ After these things Paul departed from Athens, and...
Acts 18:1 G1161 After G3326 things G5023 Paul G3972 departed G5563 (G5685) from G1537 Athens G116 went...
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...
‘After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.' It was, then, from the small city of Athens to this large capital city of Achaia that Paul now came. There is no hint that this move...
Acts 18:1. CAME TO CORINTH. The Corinth which was so intimately connected with the life and work of Paul was a new city, comparatively speaking. The old city of the same name, so renowned in Grecian s...
TO CORINTH (εις Κορινθον). Mummius had captured and destroyed Corinth B.C. 146. It was restored by Julius Caesar B.C. 46 as a boom town and made a colony. It was now the capital of the province of A...
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...
AND WENT ON TO CORINTH. This distance is forty-five miles by sea. The Romans had destroyed this city in 146 B.C., and it had been rebuilt by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. It was a _gateway_ for commerce be...
_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...
_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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of witness on his second journey. ⇐ ⇔...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 18:1. PAUL.—Omitted in the best texts. How long the Apostle stayed in Athens—Weiseler suggests fourteen days; Ramsay, three or four weeks—and how he CAME TO CORINTH, whether b...
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 Corinthians 1:2; 2 Corinthians 1:1; 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Timothy 4:20;...
Found. "A Jewish guild always keeps together, whether in street or synagogue. In Alexandria the different trades sat in the synagogue arranged into guilds; and St. Paul could have no difficulty in mee...
The foregoing chapter acquainted us with the small success which St. Paul found of his ministry at Athens: upon his preaching Jesus and the resurrection there, the philosophers and wise men mocked and...