使徒行傳 28:15-16 CUNPTS

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:11-15

The passage from Malta to Rome. I. BLESSINGS BY THE WAY . Christian fellowship is enjoyed. Unity and relationship in Jesus Christ make the unknown as known. The heart dissolves distance and strangeness. God has everywhere hidden children. The discovery of them is the discovery of a dear bond of brotherhood, and this fills the heart with joy (comp. Romans 1:12 ). The coming forth of the brethren from Rome to meet the party showed that his letter to them had not been without... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:15

The brethren, when, etc., came for when the brethren, etc., they came, A.V.; The Market of Appius for Appii forum, A.V. The brethren, when they heard of us . During the seven days' stay at Putcoli, the news of the arrival of the illustrious confessors reached the Church at Rome. The writer of that wonderful Epistle which they had received some three years before, and in which he had expressed his earnest desire to visit them, and his hope that he should come to them in the fullness... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:15

Human kindness. A striking and touching instance is this of valuable human kindness. It is a positive relief to our minds to think that the faithful veteran soldier of Jesus Christ, bearing in his body such marks of lifelong conflict, worn with toil and care and suffering, having escaped from one kind of affliction and on his way to another, met with such considerate kindness as greatly comforted and cheered him. The text may remind us— I. THAT HUMAN KINDNESS IS A DIVINELY ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:15

The break in the clouds. "He thanked God, and took courage? Review of the apostolic history. The word of God fulfilled. The varied emotions of the ambassador's heart, personal in view of his work, in anticipation of the results of the future in Rome. The gospel at the gates of the empire. Spiritual power before worldly power. I. THE STUDY OF PROVIDENCE a help to the development of Christian character and life. 1. It promotes thankfulness. 2. It confirms faith. 3. It... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:15

Gratitude and courage well linked together. Paul speaks elsewhere of the severity in some sort, at all events of the stress, laid upon his spiritual sympathies at times ( 2 Corinthians 11:28-30 ). We can well understand that any severity, any pain, felt from the claim set up by such sympathies lay not in the act of sympathizing, but in the consideration of the state of things, the sins, the errors, the inconsistencies in "all the Churches," or in the members of them that called for... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:16

Entered into for came to, A.V. and T.R.; the words which follow in the T.R. and the A.V., the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but, are omitted in the R.T. and R.V., following א , A, B, and many versions; Alford retains them, Meyer speaks doubtfully; abide for dwell, A.V.; the soldier that guarded him for a soldier that kept him, A.V. The captain of the guard (A.V.); τῷ στρατοπεδάρχῃ : in Latin praefectus praetorio ( στρατόπεδον... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:16

"Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ." Conybeare and Howson give very full details of the journey of the apostle and his company from Malta to Rome; reaching their destination, the following description of the place of imprisonment is given:—" Here was the milliarium aureum, to which the roads of all the provinces converged. All around were the stately buildings, which were raised in the closing years of the republic and by the early emperors. In front was the Capitoline Hill,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:16-19

Paul and the Roman Jews. I. A FINAL PERSONAL TESTIMONY OF INNOCENCE . It is full of manly courage and simplicity. It was no subversive teaching or conduct that had brought him into his present position. No definite charge had ever been proved against him. Like the Master, it was as a fulfiller, not as a destroyer, that he had wrought. It was for the "hope of Israel "he had suffered. Great teachers are always fulfillers. But because they see that truth is not stagnant, but... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:16-23

A unique prisoner. With the masterliness of inspired history, exceeding brevity itself in the passage before us seems to reveal rather than conceal. A few powerful strokes of the pen portray and very strikingly a hero, and one at the same time as real and unusual as ever lived. Great, indeed, must have been the length and the fullness of detail given, if the method of detail had been the one chosen, in order to attain the result of leaving with us an equally correct and complete... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:16-31

The fall. The main feature in these concluding verses of the Acts of the Apostles, as it is one of the most momentous incidents in the history of God's dealings with mankind, is the fall of Israel from their proper place in the Church of God. For nearly two thousand years, if we date from the call of Abraham, this one family had been separated from the rest of mankind, and eventually received institutions of such wonderful strength and vitality as to keep them separate through centuries of... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:11-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:16-19

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:16-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 28:16-31

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