Acts 26:3; Jeremiah 10:3
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 m...
(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 aut...
Imprisonment of Paul and Silas. The Prison Broken. The rulers ( Acts 16:19 ) are the heads of police; they are afterwards called Strategi, which...
teach . proclaim. Same as "shew" ( Acts 16:17 ). customs . Greek. ethos. See note on Acts 6:14 . are . it is. receive . Greek. paradechoma...
− 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 w...
And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. And teach customs - Εθη, Religious opinions, and religio...
And teach customs which are not lawful, &c.— Tertullian and Eusebius assert, that the Romans had an ancient law, which forbad the worship of ne...
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 t...
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...
Journey into Europe, Philippi. 6. RV 'And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the...
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 Je...
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 gos...
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 rec...
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 teach customs ,.... The Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read in the singular number, "custom or law"; referring to the doctrine of salvation...
And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. Ver. 21. Neither to observe, &c. ] An ordinary t...
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 l...
Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who had evide...
The Expulsion of an Evil Spirit; Persecution of Philippi. 16 And it came to pass,...
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 innovatio...
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 suc...
Arrest and Imprisonment Lead To Additions To The Church In Philippi (16:19-34). But the problem was that what he had done would hit at men's pocke...
‘And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, and set forth customs which i...
CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 16:19 . The rulers, ἄρχοντες, were the town magistrates ( Luke 12:58 ). Acts 16:20 . The magistrates , στρατηγοί, were...
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...
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 s...
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 so...
And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone. Apostolic duty and vicissitudes I. Christ’s servants will use whatever power th...
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...
Paul and Silas imprisoned:
and teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.
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 w...
21 And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.