{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/act015.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/act015.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/act015.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nTaught\nRather the imperfect, were teaching. They had not merely broached the error, but were inculcating it.\nManner (\u1f14\u03b8\u03b5\u03b9)\nBetter, custom, as Rev.\nQuestion (\u03b6\u03b7\u03c4\u03ae\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2)\nFound only in the Acts, and always of a question in dispute.\nBeing brought on their way (\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c0\u03b5\u03bc\u03c6\u03b8\u03ad\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2)\nLit., having been sent forth; under escort as a mark of honor.\nDeclaring\nSee on Act 13:41. In the various towns along their route.\nWere received (\u1f00\u03c0\u03b5\u03b4\u03ad\u03c7\u03b8\u03b7\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd)\nThe word implies a cordial welcome, which they were not altogether sure of receiving.\nArose\nIn the assembly.\nSect\nSee on heresies, Pe2 2:1.\nThe word of the gospel (\u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03bf\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03b5\u1f50\u03b1\u03b3\u03b3\u03b5\u03bb\u03af\u03bf\u03c5)\nThis phrase occurs nowhere else; and \u03b5\u1f50\u03b1\u03b3\u03b3\u03b5.\u03bb\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd, gospel, is found only once more in Acts (Act 20:24).\nWhich knoweth the heart (\u03ba\u03b1\u03c1\u03b4\u03b9\u03bf\u03b3\u03bd\u03ce\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2)\nOnly here and Act 1:24.\nWere able (\u1f30\u03c3\u03c7\u03cd\u03c3\u03b1\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd)\nSee on Luk 14:30; and Luk 16:3.\nHearkened\nThe imperfect (\u1f24\u03ba\u03bf\u03c5\u03bf\u03bd) denotes attention to a continued narrative.\nDeclaring (\u1f10\u03be\u03b7\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd)\nBetter, as Rev., rehearsing. See on Luk 24:35.\nWhat miracles, etc\nLit., how many (\u1f45\u03c3\u03b1).\nJames\nSee Introduction to Catholic Epistles.\nKnown unto God, etc\nThe best texts join these words with the preceding verse, from which they omit all; rendering, The Lord, who maketh these things known from the beginning of the world.\nTrouble (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03c7\u03bb\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd)\nOnly here in New Testament. See on vexed, Luk 6:18.\nWrite (\u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9)\nOriginally, to send to, as a message; hence, by letter. The kindred noun \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u03ae, whence our epistle, means, originally, anything sent by a messenger. Letter is a secondary meaning.\nPollutions (\u1f00\u03bb\u03b9\u03c3\u03b3\u03b7\u03bc\u03ac\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd)\nA word not found in classical Greek, and only here in the New Testament. The kindred verb \u1f00\u03bb\u03b9\u03c3\u03b3\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd, to pollute, occurs in the Septuagint, Daniel 1:8; Malachi 1:7, and both times in the sense of defiling by food. Here the word is defined by things sacrificed to idols (Act 15:29); the flesh of idol sacrifices, of which whatever was not eaten by the worshippers at the feasts in the temples, or given to the priests, was sold in the markets and eaten at home. See Co1 10:25-28; and Exo 34:15.\nFornication\nIn its literal sense. \"The association of fornication with three things in themselves indifferent is to be explained from the then moral corruption of heathenism, by which fornication, regarded from of old with indulgence, and even with favor, nay, practised without shame even by philosophers, and surrounded by poets with all the tinsel of lasciviousness, had become in public opinion a thing really indifferent\" (Meyer). See Dllinger, \"The Gentile and the Jew,\" ii., 237 sq.\nStrangled\nThe flesh of animals killed in snares, and whose blood was not poured forth, was forbidden to the Israelites.\nGreeting (\u03c7\u03b1\u03af\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd)\nThe usual Greek form of salutation. It occurs nowhere else in the salutation of a New Testament epistle save in the Epistle of James (Jam 1:1). See note there. It appears in the letter of Claudius Lysias (Act 23:26).\nSubverting (\u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03c3\u03ba\u03b5\u03c5\u03ac\u03b6\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2)\nOnly here in New Testament, and not found either in the Septuagint or in the Apocrypha. Originally, it means to pack up baggage, and so to carry away; hence, to dismantle or disfurnish. So Thucydides (iv., 116) relates that Brasidas captured Lecythus, and then pulled it down and dismantled it (\u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03c3\u03ba\u03b5\u03c5\u03ac\u03c3\u03b1\u03c2). From this comes the more general meaning to lay waste, or ravage. The idea here is that of turning the minds of the Gentile converts upside down; throwing them into confusion like a dismantled house.\nWe gave no commandment (\u03bf\u1f50 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b5\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03ac\u03bc\u03b5\u03b8\u03b1)\nThe word originally means to put asunder; hence, to distinguish, and so of a commandment or injunction, to distinguish and emphasize it. Therefore implying express orders, and so always in the New Testament, where it is almost uniformly rendered charge. The idea here is, then, \"we gave no express injunction on the points which these Judaizers have raised.\"\nBarnabas and Paul\nHere, as in Act 15:12, Barnabas is named first, contrary to the practice of Luke since Act 13:9. Barnabas was the elder and better known, and in the church at Jerusalem his name would naturally precede Paul's. The use of the Greek salutation, and this order of the names, are two undesigned coincidences going to attest the genuineness of this first document preserved to us from the Acts of the primitive church.\nBlood\nBecause in the blood was the animal's life, and it was the blood that was consecrated to make atonement. See Gen 9:6; Lev 17:10-14; Deu 12:23, Deu 12:24. The Gentiles had no scruples about eating blood; on the contrary, it was a special delicacy. Thus Homer:\n\"At the fire\nAlready lie the paunches of two goats,\nPreparing for our evening meal, and both\nAre filled with fat and blood. Whoever shows\nHimself the better man in this affray,\nAnd conquers, he shall take the one of these\nHe chooses.\"\nOdyssey, xviii., 44 sq.\nThe heathen were accustomed to drink blood mingled with wine at their sacrifices.\nFarewell (\u1f14\u1fe4\u1fe5\u03c9\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5)\nLit., be strong, like the Latin valete. Compare the close of Claudius Lysias' letter to Festus (Act 23:30).\nConsolation\nSee on Act 9:31.\nMany words\nOr, lit., much discourse; adding the spoken to the written consolation.\nExhorted\nOr comforted. See on Act 15:31. The latter agrees better with consolation there.\nConfirmed\nSee on Act 14:22.\nLet us go again and visit (\u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u03ad\u03c8\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 \u03b4\u1f74 \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03ba\u03b5\u03c8\u1ff6\u03bc\u03b5\u03b8\u03b1)\nLit., Having returned, let us now visit. The A. V. omits now. See on Act 13:2.\nIn every city (\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u1f70 \u03c0\u1fb6\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd \u03c0\u03cc\u03bb\u03b9\u03bd)\n\u039a\u03b1\u03c4\u03ac has the force of city by city.\nHim (\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd)\nLit., that one. It marks him very strongly, and is an emphatic position at the end of the sentence.\nDeparted (\u1f00\u03c0\u03bf\u03c3\u03c4\u03ac\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1)\nRev., withdrew. It furnishes the derivation of our word apostatize.\nThe contention was so sharp (\u1f10\u03b3\u03ad\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03bf \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03bf\u03be\u03c5\u03c3\u03bc\u1f78\u03c2)\nMore correctly, there arose a sharp contention. Only here and Heb 10:24. Our word paroxysm is a transcription of \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03bf\u03be\u03c5\u03c3\u03bc\u1f78\u03c2. An angry dispute is indicated.\nBarnabas\nThe last mention of him in the Acts.\nRecommended\nWhich was not the case with Barnabas, leading to the inference that the church at Antioch took Paul's side in the dispute.","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: Acts: Acts Chapter 15","type":"page"}