(5) Who in times past (g) suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
(5) Custom, be it ever so old, does not excuse the idolaters.
(g) Allowed them to live as they wished, prescribing and appointing them no type of religion.
Verse Acts 14:16. _WHO IN TIMES PAST SUFFERED ALL NATIONS_, c.] The words παντα τα εθνη, which we here translate, _all nations_, should be rendered, _all the Gentiles_, merely to _distinguish_ them f...
WHO IN TIMES PAST - Previous to the gospel; in past ages. SUFFERED ALL NATIONS - Permitted all nations; that is, all Gentiles, Acts 17:30. “And the times of this ignorance God winked at.” TO WALK IN...
CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The work in Iconium and the persecution of the Apostles (Acts 14:1)._ 2. In Derbe and Lystra; the Impotent Man healed (Acts 14:7). 3. The Stoning of Paul and further ministries (Act...
LYSTRA. Lystra, 25 miles SW. of Iconium, 10 miles off the trade route, in a secluded glen. Lystra and Derbe were the two cities of the Lycaonian region of Galatia; Roman influence was strong there, an...
ON TO ICONIUM (Acts 14:1-7)...
There was a man who sat in Lystra who had no power in his feet. He had been a cripple from his birth and he had never walked. He was in the habit of listening to Paul speaking. Paul fixed his gaze on...
TIMES. generations. Greek. _genea._ PAST. passed away. Greek. _paroichomai._ Only here. NATIONS. Greek. _ethnos._...
_who in times past_( BY-GONE GENERATIONS) _suffered all nations_( ALL THE HEATHEN) _to walk in their own ways_ God had chosen Israel only for His own people before the coming of Christ, and had given...
ὋΣ ἘΝ ΤΑΙ͂Σ ΠΑΡΩΙΧΗΜΈΝΑΙΣ ΓΕΝΕΑΙ͂Σ Κ.Τ.Λ., _who in bygone generations suffered all the heathen to walk in their own ways_. On this cf. Acts 17:30; Romans 1:2. ΠΟΡΕΎΕΣΘΑΙ ΤΑΙ͂Σ ὉΔΟΙ͂Σ. This phrase in t...
CURE OF A CRIPPLE AT LYSTRA. THE HEATHEN PEOPLE REGARD THE APOSTLES AS GODS....
_PAUL AND BARNABAS IN LYSTRA ACTS 14:8-17:_ At Lystra the apostles healed a lame man. He had never walked. This miracle was very much like the one in Acts 3:1-26. The man listened to the preaching. As...
ΠΑΡΦΧΗΜΈΝΑΙΣPERF. _med. (dep.) part. от_ ΠΑΡΟΊΧΟΜΑΙ (G221) проходить мимо. _adj. part._, "ушедшие поколения" ΕΊΑΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΆΩ (G1439) позволять, разрешать, с _inf._ ΠΟΡΕΎΕΣΘΑΙ _praes....
WHO IN TIMES PAST SUFFERED ALL NATIONS, &C.— That is, all the Gentiles. God left all nations, except the Jews, to the light of the heathen dispensation. It does not appear that any prophet except Jona...
IN LYSTRA. Acts 14:6 b - Acts 14:20. a. General statement. Acts 14:6 b, Acts 14:7....
See notes one verse 14...
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. WHO IN TIMES PAST SUFFERED ALL NATIONS TO WALK IN THEIR OWN WAYS - that is, interfered not with their own unaided search after trut...
6 Lystra seems to be the first place Paul preached without first proclaiming to the Jews in the synagogue, for it seems that there were not enough Jews to have a place of worship. Hence this is the fi...
FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONTINUED) 1-7. Paul and Barnabas at Iconium. The gospel meets with great success among both Jews and Gentiles in this populous city, and miracles are wrought in confirmatio...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 14 PAUL AND BARNABAS IN ICONIUM, 14:1-7 V1 What happened in Pisidian Antioch also happened in Iconium. Paul and Barnabas went to the *synagogue...
WHO IN TIMES PAST SUFFERED ALL NATIONS. — Better, _all the heathen;_ the term used being that which is always employed of the nations outside the covenant of Israel. We have here the first germ of wha...
ὃς : God working not only in creation, but in history, not only the source of life but the personal living Guide and Ruler of man, even in His tolerance far removed from the easy indifference of the g...
ESTABLISHING THE NEW BELIEVERS Acts 14:14-28 In Paul's address we have distinct anticipations of the early Chapter s of the Epistle to the Romans. How fickle a mob is! Now, enthusiastic loyalty; aga...
In Iconium there was largely a repetition of the experiences at Antioch. Becoming aware of the growing hostility, Paul and Barnabas passed on, and came to Lystra. There is a marked difference between...
Idolatry Confronted at Lystra Paul and Barnabas next arrived at Lystra, some 18 miles to the east. There was apparently no synagogue there, but there was a man who had been crippled since birth and ha...
He left not himself without testimony. Inasmuch as the Gentiles had always the light of reason, and such lights, that the created things of this world, and from the visible effects of God's providence...
PAUL AND BARNABAS ARE TAKEN FOR GRECIAN GODS 11-18. All nations at the time of our Savior's advent were on tiptoe expecting a divine messenger from heaven to teach them the way of salvation. Hence the...
And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. (12) And they called Barnabas, Jupiter;...
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...
− 16._In times past. _Because the men of Lystra might object that that God was unknown hitherto, Paul and Barnabas prevent them and say, that all men wandered indeed in darkness, and that all mankind...
Their missionary labours continue in Iconium with the same opposition from the Jews who, incapable themselves of the work, stir up the Gentiles against those who are performing it. As long as it was o...
WHO IN TIMES PAST,.... For many hundred years past; even ever since God chose and separated the people of Israel from the rest of the nations, to be a peculiar people to himself: from that time he SU...
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. Ver. 16. _Suffered all nations, &c._] That we walk not as other Gentiles, in our own ways, but know and serve the true God, is of his...
_Then the priest of Jupiter_ Who was esteemed the tutelar deity of that place, and whose statue stood just without the gate; _brought oxen_, or _bulls_ rather, _and garlands_ To put on the victims; th...
ALL NATIONS; the gentile world. THEIR OWN WAYS; ways of idolatry and wickedness, without a written revelation....
The horrified speech of Paul:...
WHO IN TIMES PAST SUFFERED ALL NATIONS TO WALK IN THEIR OWN WAYS....
Iconium was also in Asia Minor: here they entered the synagogue and the Spirit of God gave them grace to so speak as to vitally influence a great number, both of Jews and Gentiles, to believe the gosp...
WHO IN BYGONE GENERATIONS ALLOWED ALL NATIONS TO WALK IN THEIR OWN WAYS. 1. Ever since God separated the family of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to be His chosen people, the rest of the world seemed to be...
"In the generations gone by" In the ages previous to the New Covenant or Gospel Age. "He permitted all the nations to go their own ways" That is, God allowed men to depart from Him without immediate j...
8-18 All things are possible to those that believe. When we have faith, that most precious gift of God, we shall be delivered from the spiritual helplessness in which we were born, and from the domin...
There were two main objections which these heathen idolaters might make against the gospel, and the worship of the true God: and they are, first, from the antiquity, secondly, from the universality, o...
Acts 14:16 who G3739 in G1722 bygone G3944 (G5768) generations G1074 allowed G1439 (G5656) all G3956 nations...
These were not Jews. Nor were they people with a background in Judaism or philosophy. As they were revealing they were out and out idolaters and simple men. But Paul does not turn away from them. Rath...
THE MINISTRY AT LYSTRA (14:8-20A). A description is now given of the rather colourful events that occurred during their ministry in Lystra. These are on top of the fact that they proclaimed the Good N...
IN THE GENERATIONS GONE BY (εν ταις παρωιχημεναις γενεαις). Perfect middle participle from παροιχομα, to go by, old verb, here alone in the N.T.SUFFERED (ειασεν). Constative aorist active indicati...
CONTENTS: Work of the Gospel at Iconium, Derbe, Lystra. An impotent man at Lystra healed. Paul stoned. Elders appointed in the churches. CHARACTERS: God, Paul, Barnabas, impotent man, priest of Jupit...
Acts 14:1. _It came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the jews._ St. Luke makes here a great leap, and is very laconic, merely naming Perga and Attalia. This great...
THEY TORE THEIR CLOTHES. This was a symbol of grief, anger, and horror. Compare Matthew 26:65. WE ARE JUST MEN. This shows their complete commitment to _truth_! They would not permit themselves to be...
_Sirs, why do ye these things?_ APOSTOLIC SINCERITY In a position similar to that of Herod, they act in an opposite manner (Acts 12:22). And yet there was no small temptation in the matter. They migh...
_And there sat a certain man at Lystra._ PAUL AND BARNABAS IN LYSTRA I. The incident. 1. The case of the cripple resembles that of the man at the gate Beautiful; and a particular statement of it is...
_And it came to pass in Iconium._ ICONIUM A considerable city of Asia Minor, generally considered as belonging to Lycaonia. It lay in a fertile plain at the foot of Taurus, on the great line of commu...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 14:8 Lystra was populated mainly by Gentiles and had no synagogue. The ministry of Paul and Barnabas there centered around the healing of a lame man. ⇐...
_HOMILETICAL ANALYSIS_.—_Acts 14:8_ Paul and Barnabas at Lystra; or, the Gospel among Barbarians I. THE MIRACLE AT LYSTRA.— 1. The _subject_. “A certain man, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his...
EXPOSITION ACTS 14:1 _Entered _for _went both, _A.V.; _Jews _for _the Jews, _A.V.; _and _for _and also, _A.V.; Greeks for _the Greeks, _A.V. Observe how in every case Greeks are found attending the s...
Paul and Barnabas, in carrying the Gospel, have come into the uncharted territories as far as the Gospel is concerned into Asia Minor. They came from Cyprus to the area that is now known as Turkey. Th...
1 Peter 4:3; Acts 17:30; Ephesians 2:12; Hosea 4:17; Psalms 147:20;...
Times [γ ε ν ε α ι ς]. More correctly, generations, as Rev....
PREACHING BY THE WAY Acts 14:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we open the 14th chapter of Acts, we find Paul and Barnabas still traveling together and entering into Iconium. It is our purpose today to cover...
Who in times past — He prevents their objection, "But if these things are so, we should have heard the in from our fathers." Suffered — An awful judgment, all nations — The multitude of them that err...