“ After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; ”
After these things - After what occurred at Athens, as recorded in the previous chapter. Came to Corinth - Corinth was the capital of Achaia, called anciently Ephyra, and was seated on the is...
After (1) these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; (1) The true ministers are so far from seeking their own profit, that they willingly depart from what is rightfully theirs, rat...
Paul at Corinth. Corinth (p. 832), the seat of the Roman proconsul, was to the Christian missionary as good a field as Athens was the opposite. A great seaport, it was much addicted to vice and lux...
Paul . Texts read "he". departed . See Acts 1:1 ; Acts 1:4 . to . Greek. eis. App-104. Probably in spring of A.D. 52. See App-180. Corinth . At this time the political capital of Greece an...
− 1. This history is worthy to be remembered even for this one cause, because it containeth the first beginning of the Church of Corinthus, which, as it was famous for good causes, both because...
After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; Paul departed from Athens - How long he stayed here, we cannot tell; it is probable it could not be less than three months; but, fin...
To Corinth;— Achaia Propria was a part of Greece, and Corinth the metropolis of Achaia Propria. It was a famous mart town; for, by standing in the middle of the isthmus, it had the trade of both...
After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; Paul, Arriving at Corinth, Takes UP his Abode with Aquila, (18:1-3) After these things Paul - or 'And he' (the authoritie...
St Paul's Second Missionary Journey, 49, 50 a.d. ( Acts 15:36 to Acts 18:22 ) Having secured the formal recognition by the Twelve of Gentile Christianity, St. Paul was free to resume his mission...
XVIII. (1) And came to Corinth. — The journey may have been either by land along the Isthmus of Corinth, or by sea from the Piræus to Cenchreæ. The position of Corinth on the Isthmus, with a har...
6-18 Chapter 13 ST. PAUL IN GREECE. Acts 17:16-18 ; Acts 18:1 THERE are parallelisms in history which are very striking, and yet these parallelisms can be easily explained. The stress and s...
a Great Ministry in a Great City Acts 18:1-17 Paul tells us, in 1 Corinthians 2:1-4 , that he entered Corinth with fear and trembling and made no effort to attract by human wisdom or eloquence...
Leaving Athens, the center of the intellectual life of Greece, Paul came to Corinth, its commercial center. There he joined Aquila, and gave himself to the work of tent-making, while reasoning on the...
CONTENTS We have the great Apostle Paul here represented as working with his Hands for his daily Bread. He preacheth at Corinth. He is opposed by the Jews. He is encouraged by a Vision. He departs t...
After these things ,.... The Arabic version renders it, "after these words, or discourses"; after the apostle's disputation with the philosophers, and his sermon in the Areopagus, the effects of whi...
After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; Ver. 1. And came to Corinth ] A city very rich, but very loose and luxurious. Magna cognatio ut rei sic nominis, divitiis et vi...
And after these things Paul departed , &c. After having so unsuccessfully preached to the philosophers and others in Athens, the apostle judged it needless any longer to attempt the conversion o...
Paul leaves Athens and is directed to Corinth, a city as loose and licentious as Athens, but where the gospel nevertheless found a response. There he found a Jew named Aquila who had come with his wi...
Paul Visits Corinth. 1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; 2 And found a certain Jew named Aquila,...
ACTS CHAPTER 18 Acts 18:1-8 Paul worketh for his subsistence, and preacheth Christ at Corinth, first to the Jews, and, upon their opposing and blaspheming, to the Gentiles with more success. Ac...
‘After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.' It was, then, from the small city of Athens to this large capital city of Achaia that Paul now came. There is no hint that this mov...
CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 18:1 . Paul .—Omitted in the best texts. How long the Apostle stayed in Athens—Weiseler suggests fourteen days; Ramsay, three or four weeks—and how he came to Corinth , wh...
Paul had been preaching the gospel at Athens to the most famous men of that city gathered at Areopagus. Acts 18:1 . After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth: Another mos...
Acts 18:2 . Claudius had commanded all jews to depart from Rome. Suetonius says that this was on account of Chrestus, [Christ] who continually excited disturbances. This edict was issued in the ni...
After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth. Paul at Corinth Paul entered, not the grand, classical Corinth, but a sort of afterglow Corinth. The old city had been destroye...
EXPOSITION Acts 18:1 He for Paul, A.V. and T.R. After these things , etc. No hint is given by St. Luke as to the length of Paul's sojourn at Athens. But as the double journey of the Be...
After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth,
1 Corinthians 1:2 ; 2 Corinthians 1:1 ; 2 Corinthians 1:23 ; 2 Timothy 4:20 ; Acts 17:32 ; Acts 17:33 ; Acts 19:1
Paul departing from Athens — He did not stay there long. The philosophers there were too easy, too indolent, and too wise in their own eyes to receive the Gospel.