Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Acts 16:7
The Spirit— Many manuscripts and versions of undoubted authority read here, The Spirit of Jesus.
The Spirit— Many manuscripts and versions of undoubted authority read here, The Spirit of Jesus.
ACTS 16:7 VIhsou/ {A} The expression to. pneu/ma VIhsou/ (î74 a A B C2 D E 33 69 81* 326 467 vg syrp, h copbo armmss), which appears nowhere else in the New Testament, is so unusual that various...
Verse Acts 16:7. _AFTER THEY WERE COME TO MYSIA_] They passed through Phrygia into Mysia, which lay between Bithynia on the north, Phrygia on the east, AEolia on the south, and the Mediterranean on th...
MYSIA - This was a province of Asia Minor, having Propontis on the north, Bithynia on the east, Lydia on the south, and the Aegean Sea on the west. THEY ASSAYED - They endeavored; they attempted. IN...
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. In Derbe and Lystra again. Timotheus (Acts 16:1)._ 2. The Preaching forbidden in Asia (Acts 16:6). 3. The Vision of the Man from Macedonia (Acts 16:9). 4. The Gospel in Europe ...
JOURNEY THROUGH ASIA MINOR TO MACEDONIA. Here we come to the Travel-document, which is followed henceforward. It was till recently the custom to speak of the We-Passages, which are found in Acts 16:10...
They went through the Phrygian and Galatian territory, but they were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia. When they had gone through Mysia they tried to go into Bithynia.; and...
A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...
AFTER THEY WERE. Having. TO. down to. Greek. _kata._ App-104. to the border of Mysia. Revised Version "over against". ASSAYED. were attempting. Greek. _peirazo._ See Acts 15:10. INTO. Greek. _kata,...
_were come to Mysia_ The Greek scarcely says this. The preposition would be better rendered OVER AGAINST. The course of the journey seems to have been through Galatia and Phrygia, until they got so fa...
Acts 16:1-12. PAUL REVISITS DERBE AND LYSTRA, CHOOSES TIMOTHY FOR A COMPANION IN HIS MISSION, AND CIRCUMCISES HIM. THEY PASS THROUGH PHRYGIA AND GALATIA, AND COME INTO MYSIA AND TO TROAS. BY A VISION...
ΕἸΣ before ΤῊΝ ΒΙΘΥΝΊΑΝ with אABCD. _Vulg_. ‘in Bithyniam.’ ΤῸ ΠΝΕΥ͂ΜΑ ἸΗΣΟΥ͂ with אABCDE. _Vulg_. ‘Spiritus Jesu.’ 7. ἘΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ ΔῈ ΚΑΤᾺ ΤῊΝ ΜΥΣΊΑΝ, _and being come over against Mysia_. The ‘to’ of A....
_THE CALL PAUL RECEIVED TO COME TO MACEDONIA ACTS 16:6-12:_ The Holy Spirit did not allow the missionaries to go to Asia, or to Bithynia. God had chosen to send His servants to Macedonia. The gospel w...
ΈΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить, идти, ΈΠΕΊΡΑΖΟΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΙΡΆΖΩ (G3985) пытаться, стараться. _Impf._ указывает на незавершенное действие, ΠΟΡΕΥΘΉΝΑΙ _aor. pass....
WHILE IN THE ABOVE STATED REGIONS THEY WERE FORBIDDEN BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO SPEAK THE WORD IN ASIA. THEY PASSED THROUGH THE PRO-VINCE OF MYSIA AND ASSAYED TO GO INTO THE PROVINCE OF BITHYNIA BUT THEY...
See notes on verse 6...
After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not. AFTER THEY WERE COME TO MYSIA - lying north westward of Phrygia, but where, as being part of Roma...
40 Silas was almost necessary as a companion for Paul. The decrees provided that they should be delivered by both Barnabas and Paul, while Judas and Silas were to confirm them by word of mouth. Now th...
16:7 down (c-3) These participles have a causative force, especially thus disunited. 'Such being the case, they attempted to go.'...
RV 'And when they were come over against Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus suffered them not.' Leaving Antioch, St. Paul journeyed northward through the province of Asia...
Journey into Europe, Philippi. 6. RV 'And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia.' At Lystra (Acts 16:6) they received a...
ST. PAUL IN EUROPE 1. Timotheus] was probably of Lystra, not Derbe. His mother Eunice was perhaps a widow, and she, together with his grandmother Lois, educated the lad in the religion of Israel, tho...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 16 TIMOTHY WORKS WITH PAUL AND SILAS, 16:1-5 V1 Paul went to Derbe and then he went to Lystra. A *Christian called Timothy lived there. Timothy...
THEY ASSAYED TO GO INTO BITHYNIA. — The verse describes very vividly the uncertainty produced day by day by this conflict between human plans and divine direction. Bithynia, lying to the north, had, l...
κατὰ τὴν Μ.: “over against Mysia,” R.V., _i.e._, opposite Mysia, or perhaps, on the outskirts of Mysia, _cf._ Acts 27:7, and Herod., i., 76, κατὰ Σινώπην, Ramsay, _St. Paul_, p. 194, Wendt, p. 354 (18...
GUIDED TO NEW FIELDS Acts 16:1 Paul had a wonderful influence over young men. Timothy, Titus, and Mark bore his impress. When circumcision was insisted upon, as in the previous chapter, no one oppose...
Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in view of the recent decision of the council. Some charge him with i...
The Macedonian Call Just west of the cities in south Galatia was the Roman province of Asia. At this time, Luke says Paul was forbidden by the Holy Spirit to enter that region to teach. This might hav...
_The spirit of Jesus permitted them not. It is the same spirit, which just before was called the Holy Ghost: for the Holy Ghost is the spirit of Jesus, as proceeding from the Son as well as from the F...
Here we see the tardiness of the human will to respond to the Holy Ghost, and at the same time a reluctance on the part of Paul, Silas, Timothy and Luke to leave Asia, their nativity, and embark on th...
Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, (7) After they were come to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithy...
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...
There is perhaps no example of this more remarkable than that which Paul does with regard to Timothy. He uses circumcision in all liberty to set aside Jewish prejudice. It is very doubtful whether, ac...
AFTER THEY WERE COME TO MYSIA,.... Another country in Asia Minor. It is divided by Ptolomy a into two parts; superior Mysia is bounded by Dalmatia on the west, by Macedonia on the south, by part of Th...
After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not. Ver. 7. _But the Spirit suffered them not_] The Spirit still lusteth against the flesh, and the fles...
_Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia_ Greek, διελθοντες δε την Φρυγιαν, και την Γαλατικην χωραν, _having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country_, and spoken there what was sufficient, a...
MYSIA; north-west of Phrygia. ASSAYED; attempted. BITHYNIA; a province east of Mysia, and north of Phrygia. THE SPIRIT; the Holy Spirit....
AFTER THEY WERE COME TO MYSIA, THEY ASSAYED TO GO INTO BITHYNIA; BUT THE SPIRIT SUFFERED THEM NOT....
Through Asia Minor to Troas:...
Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who had evidently been converted through Paul on his first visit...
AFTER THEY HAD COME TO MYSIA, THEY TRIED TO GO INTO BITHYNIA, BUT THE SPIRIT DID NOT PERMIT THEM. 1. Here is barrier number two. They are not allowed to go into Bithynia. 2. We are not told how they...
"and when they were come over against Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia; and the Spirit of Jesus suffered them not" "Over against Mysia" "With the south-westerly route blocked, they turned north...
6-15 The removals of ministers, and the dispensing the means of grace by them, are in particular under Divine conduct and direction. We must follow Providence: and whatever we seek to do, if that suf...
MYSIA; a little country near Troas. BITHYNIA; another province nigh unto the same place, over against Thracia, bordering upon the Black Sea. THE SPIRIT; the Spirit of Jesus, or of God, as some copies...
Acts 16:7 come G2064 (G5631) to G2596 Mysia G3465 tried G3985 (G5707) go G4198 (G5738) into...
THE MISSION TO EUROPE (16:6-19:20). Paul's plans now seemed to begin to go awry. All doors seemed to be closing to him as in one way or another he was first hindered from going one way, and then anoth...
PAUL IS GUIDED BY THE SPIRIT TO EUROPE AND ARRIVES IN PHILIPPI (16:6-12). ‘And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,...
Acts 16:6-8. NOW WHEN THEY HAD GONE THROUGHOUT PHRYGIA. Phrygia denoted at this time broken portions of a territory under the jurisdiction of three or four distinct governors. It roughly represented t...
OVER AGAINST MYSIA (κατα την Μυσιαν). This was an ill-defined region rather north and west of Phrygia. The Romans finally absorbed most of it in the Province of Asia.THEY ASSAYED TO GO INTO BITHYNI...
SUFFERED R.V. adds "of Jesus", as in the best authorities....
CONTENTS: Paul finds Timothy. Paul's Macedonian vision. The first convert in Europe. Demons cast out of a damsel. Paul and Silas beaten. Conversion of the Philippian jailer. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
Acts 16:1. _Then came he to Lystra,_ as in Acts 14:6. In their former labours in that city, Lois a jewess, her daughter Eunice, and Timothy her son, had embraced the faith. Now, they found Timothy gro...
THROUGH THE REGION OF PHRYGIA AND GALATIA. _McClintock and Strong's Cyclopedia_ says the Province of Phrygia did not yet exist, but the name referred to the area south of Galatia. IN THE PROVINCE OF A...
_Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia._ PAUL’S FIRST VISIT TO GALATIA, A.D. 51 OR 52 The form of the Greek expression implies that Phrygia and Galatia are not to be reg...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:6 Paul proceeded farther west into PHRYGIA. Had he continued in that direction he would have traveled through ASIA. THE SPIRIT OF JESUS (the Holy Spirit) prevented t
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 16:6. PHRYGIA AND THE REGION OF GALATIA should probably be, _the Phrygian and Galatian region_; but whether one or two distinct districts is intended is presently under debate....
EXPOSITION ACTS 16:1 _And he came also _for _then came he, _A.V._ _and T.R.; _to Lystra _for _Lystra, _A.V._; Timothy _for _Timotheus, _A.V._; of a Jewess _for _of a certain woman which was a Jewess,...
We remember at the end of our study last week there arose a contention between Paul and Barnabas who had been close companions on the first missionary venture of the church. But because Barnabas was i...
1 Peter 1:1...
Coming to Mysia, and passing it by, as being a part of Asia, they attempted to go into Bithynia; but the Spirit suffered them not — Forbidding them as before. Sometimes a strong impression, for which...