Acts 14:22

confirming the souls of the disciples The strengthening indicated by this word is that which Peter was charged to afford to his fellow-disciples. "When thou art converted strengthenthy brethren," i.e. by warnings and exhortations drawn from thy own trials and thy deliverance from them. We see that this was the purport of St Paul's charge to the Churches.

and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God From the use of the pronoun "we" in this sentence some have thought that, although unmentioned, the writer of the Acts was present with Paul and Barnabas in this first missionary journey as well as in the others. St Luke only indicates his presence at Troas and elsewhere in the same manner (Acts 16:10-12, &c.), though in those passages the mention is more conclusive than in the verse before us.