Acts 18:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

oppossd themselves. Greek. antitassomai, to set in battle array. Elsewhere translated "resist". Romans 13:2. J as. Acts 4:6; Acts 5:6; 1 Peter 5:6.

shook. Greek. ektinasso. See note on Acts 13:51.

raiment. outer garments. Greek. himation. Compare Acts 12:8.

your own heads. Fig . Synecdoche. App-6. "Head" put for man himself.

clean. pure (Greek. katharos), i.e. free from responsibility. Compare Acts 20:26; Ezekiel 3:17-21.

henceforth. now.

Gentiles. Greek. ethnos. i.e. in Corinth. See next verse. He still continued to go first to, the synagogues in other places. See Acts 19:8 and App-181.

Acts 18:6

6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.