The man of Macedonia has sometimes been supposed to be St. Luke, or even the guardian angel of Macedonia (Daniel 10:12). The man was recognised as Macedonian by his speech, or by his dress. The introduction of Christianity into that continent, where it was destined to win its chief triumphs, is fitly prepared for by a special revelation.
ACTS 16:9 o[rama In view of the external attestation (all witnesses except Dgr ite syrp Irenaeus) as well as intrinsic probability (elsewhere in Acts Luke says “saw a vision”), a majority of the Comm...
Verse Acts 16:9. _A VISION APPEARED TO PAUL IN THE NIGHT_] Whether this was in a _dream_, or whether a _representation_ made to the _senses_ of the apostle, we cannot tell. A man of Macedonia appeared...
AND A VISION - See the notes on Acts 9:10. THERE STOOD A MAN - etc. The appearance of a man who was known to be of Macedonia, probably by his dress and language. Whether this was in a dream, or whethe...
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...
A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...
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...
VISION. Greek. _horama._ See note on Acts 7:31. It has been suggested that Paul had met Luke, and that it was he who was seen in the vision. APPEARED TO. was seen by. Greek. _horao._ App-133. IN. th...
_a vision appeared_ So also to Ananias (Acts 9:10). Cp. also Acts 10:3; Acts 10:17; Acts 10:19;...
ΤΩ͂Ι ΠΑΎΛΩΙ ὬΦΘΗ with אBDE. _Vulg_. ‘Paulo ostensa est.’ ἈΝῊΡ ΜΑΚΕΔΏΝ ΤΙΣ ἮΝ ἙΣΤῺΣ ΚΑῚ with אABCE. _Vulg_. ‘vir Macedo quidam erat stans et deprecans.’ 9. ΚΑῚ ὍΡΑΜΑ ΔΙᾺ ΝΥΚΤῸΣ ΤΩ͂Ι ΠΑΎΛΩΙ ὬΦΘΗ, _and...
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...
_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...
ΌΡΑΜΑ (G3705) видение, ΏΦΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть; _pass._ являться, ήν _impf. act. ind. от_ ΕΙΜΊ, _см._ Acts 16:1. ΈΣΤΏΣ _perf. act. part. от_ ΪΣΤΗΜΙ (G2476), perf. стоять. Part,...
THERE STOOD A MAN OF MACEDONIA,— Some think St. Paul knew his country by his dress, or language; but there was no need of his attending to such particularities, as the vision itself mentions the count...
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...
9, 10. Here he learns the object which the Spirit had in view, while turning him aside from one after another of the fields which he himself had chosen. (9) "_Then a vision appeared to Paul in the nig...
And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. AND A VISION APPEARED TO PAUL IN THE NIGHT - but while aw...
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...
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...
THERE STOOD A MAN OF MACEDONIA. — The term is probably used in its later sense as applied to the Roman province, which included Macedonia, properly so called, Illyricum, Epirus, and Thessaly, the prov...
CHAPTER 11 APOSTOLIC QUARRELS AND THE SECOND TOUR. Acts 15:36; Acts 15:39; Acts 16:6; Acts 16:8 THE second missionary tour of St. Paul now claims ou
καὶ ὅραμα : used by St. Luke eleven times in Acts elsewhere (in N.T. only once, Matthew 17:19), three times in 1 12., and eight times in 12 28 (see Hawkins, _Horæ Synoptiœ_, p. 144). But St. Luke neve...
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...
(5) And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. (5) They are the ministers of the Gospel by whom he help...
_A vision, &c. The tutelar angel of the province, according to most interpreters, under the form of a Macedonian, who implored St. Paul in behalf of the province he guarded._...
Here God settles all controversy as to leaving Asia by giving Paul a night vision, in which he saw a Macedonian man standing on a European mountain far away beyond the western sea, and heard him calli...
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...
_THE VISION AT TROAS_ ‘And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.’ Acts 16:9 The three earliest missi...
− 9._A vision by night. _The Lord would not that Paul should stay any longer in Asia; because he would draw him into Macedonia. And Luke expresseth the manner of the drawing, that a man of Macedonia a...
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...
AND A VISION APPEARED TO PAUL IN THE NIGHT,.... Either in a dream, or, it may be, when he was awake: THERE STOOD A MAN OF MACEDONIA; an angel in the form of a man; the Syriac version reads, "as a man...
And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. Ver. 9. _Into Macedonia and help us_] The ministers are thos...
_And_ While they were in this place, undetermined, probably, to what coast of Europe they should sail, if, according to their intention, they crossed the sea; _a vision appeared to Paul in the night_...
MACEDONIA; a country in the south-east of Europe....
AND A VISION APPEARED TO PAUL IN THE NIGHT: THERE STOOD A MAN OF MACEDONIA AND PRAYED HIM, SAYING, COME OVER INTO MACEDONIA AND HELP US....
The vision:...
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...
AND A VISION APPEARED TO PAUL IN THE NIGHT. A MAN OF MACEDONIA STOOD AND PLEADED WITH HIM, SAYING, " COME OVER TO MACEDONIA AND HELP US. " 1. While we are not told how the Spirit forbid them in going...
"And. vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was. man of Macedonia standing, beseeching him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us"Man of Macedonia" -Possibly his dress or language le...
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...
A MAN; an angel in the appearance and likeness (in habit and demeanour) of one of that country. MACEDONIA; a Grecian province in Europe, extending to the Archipelago. HELP US; as to our souls, with th...
9, 10. Here he learns the object which the Spirit had in view, while turning him aside from one after another of the fields which he himself had chosen. (9) "_ Then a vision appeared to Paul in the ni...
Acts 16:9 And G2532 vision G3705 appeared G3700 (G5681) Paul G3972 in G1223 night G3571 man G5100...
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...
‘And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was a man of Macedonia standing, beseeching him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia, and help us.” ' The hindrances were soon explained by a visi...
A VISION (οραμα). Old word, eleven times in Acts, once in Matthew 17:9. Twice Paul had been hindered by the Holy Spirit from going where he wanted to go. Most men would have gone back home with such...
PRAYED HIM beseeching him. Here the Gospel turns toward Europe....
Acts 16:9 Before every well-done work the vision comes. We dream before we accomplish. What is all our boyhood, that comes before our life, and thinks and pictures to itself what that life shall be, t...
Acts 16:9. _And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us._ Our dreams often follow the leading thoughts of...
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...
_And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas and a vision appeared to Paul in the night._ PAUL’S VISION AT TROAS I. Its benevolence. What is the gospel? Help for man. It helps man-- 1. To know God...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:9 A VISION... A MAN. See Acts 7:31; Acts 9:10;...
_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 Thessalonians 1:7; 1 Thessalonians 1:8; 1 Thessalonians 4:10; 2 Corinthians 11:9;...
A vision appeared to Paul by night — It was not a dream, though it was by night. No other dream is mentioned in the New Testament than that of Joseph and of Pilate's wife. A man of Macedonia — Probabl...