And he drave them ... - He refused to hear and decide the controversy. The word used here does not denote that there was any violence used by Gallio, but merely that he dismissed them in an authoritative manner.
Verse Acts 18:16. _AND HE DRAVE THEM FROM THE JUDGMENT SEAT._] He saw that their accusation was both _frivolous_ and _vexatious_, and he ordered them to depart, and the assembly to disperse. The word...
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...
GALLIO AND PAUL. Gallio's proconsulship is fixed by an inscription at Delphi which came to light in 1905; and gives an absolute date in Pauline chronology (p. 655). He had not been proconsul when Paul...
When Gallio was proconsul of Asia, the Jews got together to make an attack on Paul. They brought him to the judgment seat and said, "This man seduces men to worship God contrary to the Law." When Paul...
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...
DRAVE. Greek. _apelauno._ Only here. They probably persisted in their charges and so the liotors were ordered to clear the court....
PAUL IS ACCUSED BEFORE GALLIO, WHO DECLINES TO CONSIDER THE CHARGE AGAINST HIM. IN CONSEQUENCE, THE POPULACE FALL AT ONCE ON SOSTHÉNES, A CHIEF MAN AMONG THE JEWS, BUT GALLIO LETS THEIR ASSAULT PASS U...
ΚΑῚ�, _and he drave them from the judgement seat_. The description given by St Luke makes it probable that Gallio’s βῆμα was in some open public place, whither all might come and bring their plaints....
_THE COLDNESS OF GALLIO TOWARD PAUL ACTS 18:12-17:_ The Jews brought Paul before Gallio's judgment seat saying, "This man is teaching the people to give worship to God in a way which is against the la...
ΆΠΉΛΑΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΕΛΑΎΝΩ (G556) прогонять прочь. Более сильный термин, чем "отсылать прочь" (Haenchen)....
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...
See notes on verse 14...
And he drave them from the judgment seat. AND HE DRAVE THEM FROM THE JUDGMENT SEAT - `chased them from the tribunal,' or contemptuously ordered them out of court, annoyed at such a case....
3 While in Thessalonica he had been supported partly by gifts from Philippi, but now he engaged in tentmaking as a means of. livelihood. During his early days in Corinth his heart was continually occu...
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...
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...
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...
HE DROVE THEM FROM THE JUDGMENT SEAT. — The words imply a magisterial act. The order was given to the lictors to clear the court, and the Jews, who did not immediately retreat were exposed to the igno...
ἀπήλασεν : probably by his lictors who would be commanded to clear the court. This interpretation of the word is in accordance with the next verse, which describes the crowd of Greeks as prepared to f...
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...
Preaching in Corinth Following his normal pattern, Paul first preached in the synagogue in Corinth. During that time, Silas and Timothy once again joined the apostle's company. Silas may have come fro...
PAUL'S TRIAL BEFORE GALLIO 12-17. This case is really notable. When Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue is converted, Sosthenes succeeds him and is enthusiastic to exterminate the Pauline heresy...
And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, (13) Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary...
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...
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...
AND HE DRAVE THEM FROM THE JUDGMENT SEAT. He would not hear, and try the cause; but dismissed them with threatening them, if ever they brought an affair of that kind to him any more....
And he drave them from the judgment seat. Ver. 16. _And he drave them from the tribunal_] As so many _Vitilitigatores, qui de lana saepe caprina rixantur, _ that contended for trifles, and such as de...
_And when Paul was now about to open his mouth_ To speak in his own defence; _Gallio_ Sensible of the futility of the charge; _said to the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong, or wicked lewdness_ With...
AND HE DRAVE THEM FROM THE JUDGMENT-SEAT....
The insurrection at the time of Gallio:...
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...
AND HE DROVE THEM FROM THE JUDGMENT SEAT. 1. Gallio then ends the meeting. 2. He drives them from the court room. He has ruled. He has spoken and that ends the matter. 3. REMEMBER : God promised Pa...
"And he drove them from the judgment-seat" "These words probably imply that Gallio gave an order to his lictors to clear the court. Any of the Jews who did not immediately retreat would expose themsel...
12-17 Paul was about to show that he did not teach men to worship God contrary to law; but the judge would not allow the Jews to complain to him of what was not within his office. It was right in Gal...
He commanded them to be gone, having dismissed their case; and, if need were, added threatening and force....
Acts 18:16 And G2532 drove G556 (G5656) them G846 from G575 seat G968 Psalms 76:10;...
‘And he drove them from the judgment-seat.' And the result was that he drove them all from the place of judgment. He was having none of it. There is an impression here of rather forceful dealings, as...
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...
Acts 18:16. AND HE DRAVE THEM FROM THE JUDGMENT-SEAT. The language shows that some force had to be used to induce these importunate accusers to leave the court....
HE DRAVE THEM (απηλασεν αυτους). First aorist active indicative of απελαυνω, old word, but here alone in the N.T. The Jews were stunned by this sudden blow from the mild proconsul and wanted to lin...
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...
WHEN GALLIO WAS MADE. Ramsay thinks this was in the summer of 52 A.D. Gallio's brother, Seneca, was the teacher of Nero. SEIZED PAUL AND TOOK HIM INTO COURT. This implies they could not stir up a mob...
_And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection._ GALLIO AND PAUL The proconsul of Achaia had ended his term of office, and the proconsul appointed by the emperor was Marcus Ann...
_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 18:12. GALLIO.—Gallio became proconsul towards the end of Claudius’s reign, about A.D. 53. His character, as depicted by ancient writers, corresponded with that revealed in Luk...
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...
Psalms 76:10; Revelation 12:16; Romans 13:3; Romans 13:4...