NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
Acts 26:18
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews
in which we were tarrying perishing with thirst (that is, deprived of the divine word), drinking, "by the faith which is on Him,"[281]
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews
in which we were tarrying perishing with thirst (that is, deprived of the divine word), drinking, "by the faith which is on Him,"[281]
Verse Acts 26:18. _TO OPEN THEIR EYES_] To be the instrument of informing their _understanding_ in the things of God. _TO TURN_ THEM _FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT_] From _heathenism_ and _superstition_ to...
TO OPEN THEIR EYES - To enlighten or instruct them. Ignorance is represented by the eyes being closed, and the instruction of the gospel by the opening of the eyes. See Ephesians 1:18. AND TO TURN THE...
CHAPTER 26 __ 1. The Address of the Apostle Paul (Acts 26:2). 2. The Interruption by Festus and the Appeal to the King (Acts 26:24). 3. The Verdict (Acts 26:30). The opening words of the Apostle a...
PAUL SPEAKS BEFORE AGRIPPA. It is Agrippa the vassal king, not Festus the representative of the sovereign power, who calls on Paul to speak, and to whom Paul addresses himself throughout, even after t...
"When, in these circumstances, I was on my way to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, as I was on the road at midday, I saw, your Majesty. a light from heaven, more brillian...
THE DEFENCE OF A CHANGED MAN (Acts 26:1-11)...
AND TO TURN. that they may turn. TURN. Greek. _epistrepho._ Compare Acts 3:19. FROM. Greek. _apo._ App-104. Compare Colossians 1:13. POWER. authority. Greek. _exousia,_ as in Acts 26:10
_to open their eyes, and to turn them_ More literally _Rev. Ver._"that they may turn". A sentence full of hope and promise of success. If the eyes of the Gentiles be but opened, then they will turn. I...
ἈΝΟΙ͂ΞΑΙ ὈΦΘΑΛΜΟῪΣ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ν, ΤΟΥ͂ ἘΠΙΣΤΡΈΨΑΙ, _to open their eyes that they may turn_. Here we have another shade of meaning of the genitival infinitive. By the opening of their eyes the Gentiles will...
Acts 26:1-23. PAUL’S DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA...
_PAUL'S CONVERSION AND COMMISSION ACTS 26:12-18:_ Paul was on my way to Damascus with the authority from the chief priests when he saw a bright light and heard a voice from heaven. He came to realize...
ΆΝΟΪ́ΞΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΑΝΟΊΓΩ (G455) открывать. _Inf._ цели или эпэкз. _inf._, объясияющий поручение, ΈΠΙΣΤΡΈΨΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΈΠΙΣΤΡΈΦΩ (G1994) обращаться. _Inf._ цели, но подчиненный п...
DISCOURSE: 1811 PAUL’S COMMISSION Acts 26:17. _Unto whom now I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forg...
TO TURN THEM— _That they may turn,_ seems to be the sense of the original, which may properly be rendered thus, without the need of any supplement; and this will best agree with the construction, and...
f. Paul's defense before King Agrippa. Acts 25:13 bActs 26:32. Acts 25:13 Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus....
See notes on verse 12...
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith t...
1 King Agrippa was a notable figure throughout the closing period of Jewish national life. He was the last prince of the Herodian line. Unlike the Roman governors, who were frequently replaced and mos...
26:18 inheritance (c-29) As Colossians 1:12 , 'portion.'...
DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA 1-32. St. Paul before Agrippa. This speech, though in form a defence to the Jews, is really intended by St. Luke to be St. Paul's defence to the world—an apology for his whole...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 26 PAUL SPEAKS TO KING AGRIPPA, 26:1-11 V1 Agrippa told Paul, ‘You may now speak for yourself.’ Paul waved his hand. He said, V2 ‘King Agrippa,...
FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. — The words gain a fresh interest if we think of them as corresponding with the Apostle’s own recovery from blindness. The imagery, though naturally common throughout Scripture...
ἀνοῖξαι ὀφθ. αὐτῶν, _cf._ Acts 9:8; Acts 9:40, and also Matthew 9:30; so too Isaiah 35:5;...
OBEDIENT TO HIS HEAVENLY VISION Acts 26:12 Nowhere else is there such deliverance from the glare and cross-lights of earth as is afforded by a vision of the face of Jesus, brighter than the sun at no...
Agrippa intimated to Paul that he might speak, and the apostle spent a moment in introductory words, and then uttered his great apologia, in which a twofold purpose is evident, first, his own defense,...
Paul's Account of His Conversion and Life Following On his way to Damascus in pursuit of more Christians, Paul reported that he saw a great light, which was brighter than the sun, coming out of heaven...
(5) To open their eyes, [and] to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified...
That they may be converted from the darkness of error to the light of the gospel, and from the power of Satan to the liberty of the children of God....
Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. (4) My manner of life from my youth, which was at the...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
− 18._That thou mayest open their eyes. _Paul, in taking to himself that which is proper to God, doth seem to exalt himself too high. For we know that it is the Holy Ghost alone which doth lighten the...
Paul's address to king Agrippa furnishes us with the most complete picture of the entire position of the apostle, as he himself looked at it when his long service and the light of the Holy Ghost illum...
TO OPEN THEIR EYES,.... The eyes of their understanding, which were shut, and darkened, and blind: one copy reads, "the eyes of the blind"; and the Ethiopic version renders it, "the eyes of their hear...
To open their eyes, _and_ to turn _them_ from darkness to light, and _from_ the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by f...
_But rise and stand upon thy feet_ Though thou hast persecuted me and my followers in this outrageous manner, and hast been engaged in a desperate attempt to destroy them from the face of the earth, a...
OPEN THEIR EYES; enlighten their minds. DARKNESS TO LIGHT; the ignorance of heathenism to the saving knowledge of the gospel. POWER OF SATAN; from his service to the service of God. Men naturally are...
TO OPEN THEIR EYES, AND TO TURN THEM FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT AND FROM THE POWER OF SATAN UNTO GOD, THAT THEY MAY RECEIVE FORGIVENESS OF SINS AND INHERITANCE AMONG THEM WHICH ARE SANCTIFIED BY FAITH THA...
Paul's recital of his miraculous conversion:...
At Agrippa's invitation to him to speak, Paul is fully prepared. He expresses his happiness at being privileged to answer for himself to the king, especially because he knew Agrippa to be an expert in...
TO OPEN THEIR EYES, IN ORDER TO TURN THEM FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT, AND FROM THE POWER OF SATAN TO GOD, THAT THEY MANY RECEIVE FORGIVENESS OF SINS AND AN INHERITANCE AMONG THOSE WHO ARE SANCTIFIED BY FA...
"to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith...
12-23 Paul was made a Christian by Divine power; by a revelation of Christ both to him and in him; when in the full career of his sin. He was made a minister by Divine authority: the same Jesus who a...
TO OPEN THEIR EYES; the eyes of their minds, that they might know God, and their duty towards him. Our Saviour assures Paul, that he should do that for the souls of men which he should find effected i...
Acts 26:18 open G455 (G5658) their G846 eyes G3788 turn G1994 (G5658) from G575 darkness G4655 to...
“Delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remi...
_Paul's Defence of Christianity before King Agrippa, his Sister, and the Procurator Festus,_ 1-23. This famous _apologia_ of St. Paul consists of four divisions. The first, Acts 26:2-3, consists of a...
Acts 26:18. TO OPEN THEIR EYES, AND TO TURN THEM FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT. The beautiful words of Isaiah's prophecy of the coming Messiah and His peculiar work, seem to ring in our ears as we read these...
TO OPEN (ανοιξα). First aorist active infinitive of purpose.THAT THEY MAY TURN (του επιστρεψα). Another infinitive of purpose first aorist active (genitive case and articular), epexegetic to ανοι...
SINS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
Acts 26 St. Paul's Defence before Agrippa. Observe: I. What is the central truth of the Christian system. It is a very suggestive fact that Festus had got hold of the kernel of the whole subject, as...
Acts 26:18 I. The object of faith is Christ. "Faith that is in Me," which is directed towards Christ as its object. Christianity is not merely a system of truths about God, nor a code of morality dedu...
Acts 26:1. _Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:_ I do not suppose Agrippa imagined that Paul would take...
Three times we have in Holy Writ a graphic report of the conversion of Paul. This may be accounted for partly from its being one of the most remarkable events of early sacred history, Paul having had...
CONTENTS: Paul's defense before Agrippa. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Agrippa, Satan, Festus, Bernice, Caesar. CONCLUSION: When God's servant is given a chance to speak for himself, it is well if h...
Acts 26:1. _Then Paul stretched forth the hand,_ the usual signal to gain attention; it indicates presence of mind in the speaker, and that his auditory is large. Though the notice was short, the cour...
IT WAS FOR THIS PURPOSE. He had gone to Damascus with the idea of trying to crush the Christian movement. This is the third time he tells about his converting to Christ. See Acts 9:1-9 and notes. Here...
_Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself._ PAUL BEFORE AGRIPPA Here is all that Christianity ever asked for: an opportunity to speak for itself; and its answer is the one...
_Whereupon as I went to Damascus._ THE CONVERSION OF SAUL OF TARSUS I. His character before his conversion. 1. He was a moral man (Philippians 3:6). Yet he needed conversion. The necessity of conve...
_But rise, and stand upon thy feet; for I have appeared unto thee to make thee a minister and a witness._ CHRISTIANITY SELF-ATTESTED If you had given you what was asserted to be a speech made long ag...
_To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light._ THE EFFECTS OF THE GOSPEL I. The opening of the eyes to let in the truth. The gospel shows us our dark, lost, and needy state, and the...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 26:9. Commences the second part of Paul’s apology. Paul would not despair of converting his countrymen from doubt to belief, since he himself had undergone a similar mental rev...
EXPOSITION ACTS 26:1 And for _then, _A.V.; _his _for _the, _A.V.; _made his _defense_ _for _answered for himself, _A.V. AGRIPPA SAID. It was by the courtesy of Festus that Agrippa thus took the chief...
Let's open our Bibles to the twenty-sixth chapter of Acts. Paul was rescued by Lysias, the captain of the Roman guard from the mob that was attempting to beat him to death in Jerusalem on the temple m...
1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Corinthians 6:10; 1 Corinthians 6:11;...
To open — He opens them, who sends Paul; and he does it by Paul who is sent; their eyes — Both of the Jews and Gentiles: that they may turn — Through the power of the Almighty, from the spiritual dark...