Acts 16:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. ”

• Acts 16:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And teach customs - The word “customs” here ἔθη ethē refers to “religious rites or forms of worship.” See the notes on Acts 6:14 . They meant to charge the apostles with introducing a new...

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• Acts 16:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (13) And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. (13) It is an argument of the devil to use the authority of ancestors, though not distinguishing exa...

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• Acts 16:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Imprisonment of Paul and Silas. The Prison Broken. The rulers ( Acts 16:19 ) are the heads of police; they are afterwards called Strategi, which answers to the Roman Prœ tores. Philippi was a c...

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• Acts 16:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  teach . proclaim. Same as "shew" ( Acts 16:17 ). customs . Greek. ethos. See note on Acts 6:14 . are . it is. receive . Greek. paradechomai. Only here, Acts 22:18 . Mar 4:20. 1 Timothy...

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• Acts 16:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  − 21. Ordinances which. They lean to a prejudice, lest the cause should come to be disputed; as the Papists deal with us at this day, this was decreed in a General Council; it is a more anci...

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• Acts 16:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. And teach customs - Εθη, Religious opinions, and religious rites. Which are not lawful for us to receive...

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• Acts 16:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And teach customs which are not lawful, &c.— Tertullian and Eusebius assert, that the Romans had an ancient law, which forbad the worship of new deities without the permission of the senate; an...

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• Acts 16:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. Here...

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• Acts 16:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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,...

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• Acts 16:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And teach customs. — The word is used as including ritual as well as social habits, and seems to have been specially used of the whole system of Jewish life. (See Notes on Acts 6:14 ; Acts 15:1 ;...

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• Acts 16:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Welcomed; Attested; Imprisoned Acts 16:14-24 This was an epoch-making moment, but how quietly it is recorded. There was no heralding of the gospel which was to transform Europe. The need for it...

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• Acts 16:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Acts 16:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, (20) And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These...

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• Acts 16:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And teach customs ,.... The Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read in the singular number, "custom or law"; referring to the doctrine of salvation by Christ, in whose name the spirit of divination...

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• Acts 16:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. Ver. 21. Neither to observe, &c. ] An ordinary thing to oppose the placits and devices of men to t...

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• Acts 16:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone Was vanished with the evil spirit that was cast out. See here of how much evil the love of money is the root! If the preaching of the...

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• Acts 16:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 visi...

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• Acts 16:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Expulsion of an Evil Spirit; Persecution of Philippi.       16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed...

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• Acts 16:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  There was at Philippi, as appears Acts 16:12 , a colony of the Romans, and they were governed by their laws, by which they might make no innovation in religion without the consent of the senate, a...

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• Acts 16:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Ministry in Philippi From the House of Lydia (16:12b-40). The arrival in Europe was clearly seen by Luke as very important. He illustrates the successful ministry there by a threefold description...

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• Acts 16:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 16:19 . The rulers, ἄρχοντες, were the town magistrates ( Luke 12:58 ). Acts 16:20 . The magistrates , στρατηγοί, were the two chief civic authorities (dunmviri) in a R...

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• Acts 16:21 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• Acts 16:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 Timoth...

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• Acts 16:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination. The Pythoness The words, literally, are as in the margin, a spirit of Python, or, as some MSS. give it, a Python spirit. The Python was t...

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• Acts 16:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Acts 16:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Paul and Silas imprisoned:

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• Acts 16:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 26:3 ; Jeremiah 10:3

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• Acts 16:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And teach customs which it is not lawful for us to receive — The world has received all the rules and doctrines of all the philosophers that ever were. But this is a property of Gospel truth: it ha...

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