Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
Ver. 18. But Satan hindered us] He still doth his utmost to hinder the communion of saints, and to keep them asunder. He knows two are better than one; and therefore he stirred up the primitive persecutors to banish the Christians, and to confine them to isles and mines. Where they could not have access one to another: whether Satan hindered Paul by sickness, or by imprisonments, or tempests at sea, who can resolve saith one. (Cyprian. Epist.) He hindered him by casting a necessity upon him of disputing often with the Stoics and Epicures which were at Athens, saith another interpreter. Satan-Hindering