Acts 20:1
Embraced [α σ π α σ α μ ε ν ο ς]. Better, as Rev., took leave. The word is used for a salutation either at meeting or parting. See ch. Acts 21:6; Acts 21:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
Embraced [α σ π α σ α μ ε ν ο ς]. Better, as Rev., took leave. The word is used for a salutation either at meeting or parting. See ch. Acts 21:6; Acts 21:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
Greece. The Roman province of Achaia, comprehending Greece proper and the Peloponnesus. Luke uses Achaia (ch. 29 21) and Greece synonymously, as distinguished from Macedonia.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sail [α ν α γ ε σ θ α ι]. Better, as Rev., set sail. See on Luke 8:22; and compare Luke 5:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
So pater. The best texts add, the son of Pyrrhus. Compare Romans 16:21. Aristarchus. Compare Acts 19:29. Gaius. Not the one mentioned in ch. 19 29, who was a Macedonian. Tychicus and Trophimus. See Colossians 4:7; Colossians 4:8; Ephesians 6:21; Ephesians 6:22; 2 Timothy 4:12; Titus 3:2;... [ Continue Reading ]
Us. The first person resumed, indicating that Luke had joined Paul.... [ Continue Reading ]
In five days [α χ ρ ι ς η μ ε ρ ω ν π ε ν τ ε]. Lit., "up to five days," indicating the duration of the voyage from Philippi.... [ Continue Reading ]
First [τ η μ ι α]. Lit., "the one day." The cardinal numeral here used for the ordinal. Week [σ α β β α τ ω ν]. The plural used for the singular, in imitation of the Hebrew form. The noun Sabbath is often used after numerals in the signification of a week. See Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:1; John 20:19. T... [ Continue Reading ]
Many lights. A detail showing the vivid impression of the scene upon an eye - witness. It has been remarked that the abundance of lights shows how little of secrecy or disorder attached to these meetings. The upper chamber. See on ch. Acts 1:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
The window. See on ch. Acts 9:25. The windows of an Eastern house are closed with lattice - work, and usually reach down to the floor, resembling a door rather than a window. They open, for the most part, to the court, and not to the street, and are usually kept open on account of the heat. Fallen i... [ Continue Reading ]
Fell on him. Compare 1 Kings 17:21; 2 Kings 4:34. Trouble not yourselves [μ η θ ο ρ υ β ε ι σ θ ε]. Rev., more correctly, make ye no ado. They were beginning to utter passionate outcries. See Matthew 9:23; Mark 5:39. His life is in him. In the same sense in which Christ said, "The damsel is not de... [ Continue Reading ]
Having gone up. From the court to the chamber above. Talked [ο μ ι λ η σ α ς]. Rather, communed. It denotes a more familiar and confidential intercourse than discoursed, in verse 7.... [ Continue Reading ]
To go afoot [π ε ζ ε υ ε ι ν]. Only here in New Testament. There is no good reason for changing this to by land, as Rev. The A. V. preserves the etymology of the Greek verb. The distance was twenty miles; less than half the distance by sea.... [ Continue Reading ]
Arrived [π α ρ ε β α λ ο μ ε ν]. Only here and Mark 4:30, where it is used more nearly according to its original sense, to throw beside; to bring one thing beside another in comparison. Here, of bringing the vessel alongside the island. The narrative implies that they only touched (Rev.) there, but... [ Continue Reading ]
To spend time [χ ρ ο ν ο τ ρ ι β η σ α ι]. Only here in New Testament. The word carries the suggestion of a waste of time, being compounded with tribw, to rub; to wear out by rubbing. The sense is nearly equivalent to our expression, fritter away time.... [ Continue Reading ]
Having sent to Ephesus. About thirty miles. Elders. Called overseers or bishops in verse 28.... [ Continue Reading ]
Kept back [υ π ε σ τ ε ι λ α μ η ν]. A picturesque word. Originally, to draw in or contract. Used of furling sails, and of closing the fingers; of drawing back for shelter; of keeping back one's real thoughts; by physicians, of withholding food from patients. It is rather straining a point to say, a... [ Continue Reading ]
Repentance toward God. Repentance has the article : the repentance which is due to God. So, also, faith : the faith which is due toward Christ, as the advocate and mediator. Acts 20:2 9Bound in the spirit. In his own spirit. Constrained by an invincible sense of duty. Not by the Holy Spirit, which... [ Continue Reading ]
But none of these things move me, neither count I, etc. The best texts omit neither count I, and render, I esteem my life of no account, as if it were precious to myself. Dear [τ ι μ ι α ν]. Of value; precious. Course [δ ρ ο μ ο ν]. A favorite metaphor of Paul, from the race - course. See 1 Cor. i... [ Continue Reading ]
I know. The I is emphatic : I know through these special revelations to myself (ver. 23).... [ Continue Reading ]
This day [τ η σ η μ ε ρ ο ν η μ ε ρ α]. Very forcible. Lit., on today's day; this, our parting day.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shunned. The same word as in verse 20 kept back.... [ Continue Reading ]
To yourselves and to all the flock. To yourselves first, that you may duly care for the flock. Compare 1 Timothy 4:16. Overseers [ε π ι σ κ ο π ο υ ς]. Denoting the official function of the elders, but not in the later ecclesiastical sense of bishops, as implying an order distinct from presbyters o... [ Continue Reading ]
Grievous [β α ρ ε ι ς]. Lit., heavy : violent, rapacious.... [ Continue Reading ]
Watch [γ ρ η γ ο ρ ε ι τ ε]. See on Mark 8:35. To warn [ν ο υ θ ε τ ω ν]. From nouv, the mind, and tiqhmi, to put. Lit., to put in mind; admonish (so Rev., better than warn). "It's fundamental idea is the well - intentioned seriousness with which one would influence the mind and disposition of anot... [ Continue Reading ]
I commend. See on 1 Peter 4:19. Build you up. A metaphor in constant use by Paul, and preserved in the words edify, edification (Latin, aedes, "a house" and facere, "to make ") by which oijkodomew and its kindred words are frequently rendered. In old English the word edify was used in its original... [ Continue Reading ]
Raiment. Mentioned along with gold and silver because it formed a large part of the wealth of orientals. They traded in costly garments, or kept them stored up for future use. See on purple, Luke 16:19; and compare Ezra 2:69; Nehemiah 7:70; Job 27:16. This fact accounts for the allusions to the dest... [ Continue Reading ]
I have shewed you all things [π α ν τ α υ π ε δ ε ι ξ α υ μ ι ν]. The verb means to shew by example. Thus Luke 6:47, "I will shew you to whom he is like," is followed by the illustration of the man who built upon the rock. So Acts 9:16. God will shew Paul by practical experience how great things he... [ Continue Reading ]
Kissed [κ α τ ε φ ι λ ο υ ν]. See on Matthew 26:49.... [ Continue Reading ]
See [θ ε ω ρ ε ι ν]. See on Luke 10:18. The word for steadfast, earnest contemplation suggests the interest and affection with which they looked upon his countenance for the last time.... [ Continue Reading ]