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ACTS 18:2-4
The original form of the Western text, which in verses Acts 18:2 and
Acts 18:3 codex Bezae presents in a form somewhat accommodated to the
A...
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Verse Acts 18:2. _A CERTAIN JEW NAMED AQUILA_] Some have supposed
that this Aquila was the same with the Onkelos, mentioned by the Jews.
See the article in Wolfius, Bibl. Hebr. vol. ii. p. 1147. We h...
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AND FOUND A CERTAIN JEW - Aquila is mentioned elsewhere as the friend
of Paul, Romans 16:3; 2 Timothy 4:19; 1 Corinthians 16:19. Though a
Jew by birth, yet it is evident that he became a c
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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FOUND. having found.
CERTAIN. Greek. _tis._ App-123.
NAMED. by name.
AQUILA. See Romans 16:3. 1Co 16:19. 2 Timothy 4:19.
BORN, &C. =. Pontian by race.
LATELY. Greek. _prosphatos._ Only here. The a...
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_a certain Jew named Aquila_ The name _Aquila_is a Latin word, and it
is not likely that this was the man's Jewish name, but as the custom
was among the Jews, he had probably assumed a Roman name duri...
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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...
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ἸΟΥΔΑΙ͂ΟΝ ὈΝΌΜΑΤΙ ἈΚΎΛΑΝ _a Jew named
Aquila_. The name _Aquila_ is Latin, and it is not likely that this
was the man’s Jewish name, but as the custom was among the Jews, he
had probably assumed a Rom...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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2, 3. Paul entered this large city a stranger, alone, and penniless.
What little means he had brought with him from Macedonia was
exhausted, and his first attention was directed to the supply of his
d...
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And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come
from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had
commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
AND FO...
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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...
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AQUILA.. PRISCILLA] As Aquila and Priscilla (Prisca) are not said to
have been converted by Paul, they were probably already Christians.
The edict of the emperor Claudius (about 52 a.d.) which expelle...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AND FOUND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED AQUILA, BORN IN PONTUS. — The name
presents some interesting associations. Strictly speaking, the Greek
form is _Ahylas,_ but this is undoubtedly the transliterated form...
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Ἀκύλαν, _cf._ Acts 18:18; Romans 16:3; 1 Corinthians 16:19; 2
Timothy 4:19 : the Latin _Aquila_ in its Greek form; the name may have
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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...
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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...
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Tentmaking With Aquila and Priscilla
In Corinth, Paul found two Jews, Aquila, who was from Pontus which was
a province between Bithynia and Armenia, and his wife Priscilla, who
was also known as Prisc...
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And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from
Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that (a) Claudius had
commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
(a)...
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Fortunately Aquila and Priscilla, devout Jews, driven from Rome by the
Emperor Claudius, also experts in tent building, fall in with him,
becoming his first converts to the Christhood of Jesus and swe...
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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...
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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...
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2._A Jew called Aquila. _This was no small trial, in that Paul findeth
none at Corinthus to lodge him save Aquila, who had been twice exiled.
For being born in Pontus, he forsook his country, and sa...
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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...
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AND FOUND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED AQUILA,.... This seems to have been his
Roman name, which he had took, or was given him, while he was at Rome;
very likely his Jewish name was נשד, "Nesher", which signif...
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And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from
Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded
all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
Ver. 2....
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_And found a certain Jew_ Afterward converted to the faith of Christ,
(Acts 18:26,) doubtless by the instrumentality of Paul; _born in
Pontus_ A province of the Lesser Asia, not far from Galatia and
C...
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PONTUS; the north-eastern province of Asia Minor.
CLAUDIUS; the Roman emperor, who reigned from A.D. 41 to 54....
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PAUL AT CORINTH.
Aquila and Priscilla and the beginning of the work:...
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AND FOUND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED AQUILA, BORN IN PONTUS, LATELY COME FROM
ITALY, WITH HIS WIFE PRISCILLA, (BECAUSE THAT CLAUDIUS HAD COMMANDED
ALL JEWS TO DEPART FROM ROME,) AND CAME UNTO THEM....
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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...
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AND HE FOUND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED AQUILA, BORN IN PONTUS, WHO HAD
RECENTLY COME FROM ITALY WITH HIS WIFE PRISCILLA (BECAUSE CLAUDIUS HAD
COMMANDED ALL THE JEWS TO DEPART FROM ROME); AND HE CAME TO THEM...
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"And he found. certain Jew named Aquila,. man of Pontus by race,
lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had
commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome: and he came unto
them...
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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...
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PONTUS; a country between Cappadocia and the Black Sea, ACTS 2:9,
whither the progenitors of Aquila, in one of the dispersions, might
flee from Judea to inhabit there. CLAUDIUS; the Roman emperor, who...
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2, 3. Paul entered this large city a stranger, alone, and penniless.
What little means he had brought with him from Macedonia was
exhausted, and his first attention was directed to the supply of his
d...
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Acts 18:2 And G2532 found G2147 (G5631) certain G5100 Jew G2453 named
G3686 Aquila G207 born G1085 Pontus...
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We are not told whether they formed a partnership, or whether Paul
worked for Aquila as an employee, but they worked together as
tentmakers/leatherworkers. It was customary for a Rabbi to have
learned...
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‘And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race,
lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had
commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome.'
On arrival in Cori...
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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...
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Acts 18:2. AND FOUND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED AQUILA, BORN IN PONTUS,
LATELY COME FROM ITALY, WITH HIS WIFE PRISCILLA. It seems, on the
whole, probable that Aquila and Priscilla two great names in early
Ch...
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AQUILA
(Ακυλαν). Luke calls him a Jew from Pontus, apparently not yet a
disciple, though there were Jews from Pontus at the great Pentecost
who were converted (Acts 2:9). Aquila who made the famous...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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A JEW NAMED AQUILA. Some think the term "Jew" shows he was not yet a
Christian. _Johnson_ thinks both Aquila and Priscilla became
Christians at Corinth. Yet Paul may mention that this man was a Jew,
o...
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_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...
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_And found a certain Jew named Aquila … with his wife Priscilla._
AQUILA AND PRISCILLA
No book is less systematic than the Bible, yet none has so complete a
code of faith and duty. Its statements of...
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_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...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:2 Claudius’s expulsion of the JEWS from ROME
in A.D. 49 seems to have resulted from trouble in the synagogues
created by the Christian message. AQUILA and...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 18:1 Corinth was Paul’s last major place of
witness on his second journey.
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 16:19; 1 Peter 1:1; 2 Timothy 4:19; Acts 11:28; Acts 2:9
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Lately [π ρ ο σ φ α τ ω ς]. Only here in New Testament,
though the kindred adjective, rendered new, is found in Hebrews 10:20.
It is derived from fenw, to slay, and the adjective means, originally,
la...
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Claudius, the Roman emperor, had commanded all the Jews to depart from
Rome — All who were Jews by birth. Whether they were Jews or
Christians by religion, the Romans were too stately to regard....
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The apostle being now come to Corinth, where he was altogether.
stranger, and wanting money for his subsistence, the providence of God
directed him to the house of Aquila and Priscilla; who being of t...