Atos 9
Marvin Vincent · Citado em PreceptAustin
Atos 9
Vincent adds (on paratereo) - They kept watching. The compound verb, with para, by the side of, means to watch carefully or closely, as one who dogs another’s steps, keeping beside or near him. So that - Term of purpose. They were being vigilant to exterminate! The hunter has become the hunted! They might put him to death - This is the same verb anaireo (see above) used in Acts 9:24 where it is translated to do away with. Vance Havner said, “A real fire brand is distressing to the devil and when a wide-awake believer comes along, taking the gospel seriously, we can expect some sinister maneuvering for his downfall.” Acts 9:25 but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a large basket. (NASB: Lockman) KJV Acts 9:25 Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket. let Josh 2:15; 1 Sa 19:11,12; 2 Cor 11:33 Acts 9 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries SAUL BECOMES A "BASKET CASE" But - Term of contrast. The Jews hatched their plot, BUT Saul's disciples "wove" their own plot with a woven basket! Saul was quite a showman - entering the city blind and leaving in a basket! His disciples - Did you notice the phrase "his disciples (mathetes)?" Saul is already bearing fruit! Clearly Saul was already obeying Jesus' command to "make disciples" (matheteuo in the aorist imperative = Do this without delay!) (Mt 28:19+)! Are you as convicted as I am? Saul is still a new believer and is already making disciples! How long have you been a believer in Jesus? Do you have any disciples? If not you are in clear disobedience to Jesus' command! As an aside you always have to be cautious with versions which paraphrase the text because they are more interpretative. In that regard the NLT paraphrase of this passage is a poor rendering -- "some of the other believers (Act 9:25NLT) Yes, they were believers but the NLT rendering misses the fact that they were Saul's disciples! (As does the generally more literal KJV and NKJV) Ger - By this time, Saul had attracted his own personal group of disciples, his talmudim, as was normative for rabbis. Took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a large basket - Through an opening in the wall is explained by Paul in 2 Cor 11:33 as "Either through the window of a house overhanging the wall, or through a window in the wall itself opening to houses on its inner side. Hackett says that he observed such windows in the wall at Damascus." (Vincent)
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Vincent on comfort - From parakaleo, to call toward or to one’s side for help. The word is rendered in the New Testament both exhortation and consolation. Compare Acts 13:15; Rom. 12:8; 2 Cor. 8:17; Heb. 12:5; and Luke 2:25 (see note); 2 Thess. 2:16; Matt. 5:4. In some passages the meaning is disputed, as Philip. 2:1, where, as in 1 Cor. 14:3, it is joined with παραμύθιον or παραμυθία, the meaning of which also varies between incentive and consolation or assuagement. Here exhortation is the rendering approved by the best authorities, to be construed with was multiplied: was multiplied by the exhortation of the Holy Ghost; i.e., by the Holy Spirit inspiring the preachers, and moving the hearts of the hearers. A T Pierson on the Holy Spirit - “Is it not already but too evident that the church of our day has little or no conception of the pricelessness of blessing involved in this Paraklesis of the Spirit? What if once more this lesson could be learned? What ‘rest’ would the church have from internal dissension and division, from heresy and schism! What edification, ‘being built up’ on the most holy faith! What holy ‘walking in the fear of the Lord,’ what rapid multiplication, and what world-wide evangelization! There is now an evil now cursing or threatening our church life which this ‘comfort of the Holy Ghost’ would not remedy and perhaps remove.” It continued to increase - "increased in numbers." (NET) "Multiplied" (ESV). Why did the church continue to increase? Continued to increase (to multiply)(4129)(plethuno from plethos = fullness from pletho = to fill) means to be made full, grow, increase or be multiplied. In the active sense it means to cause to increase, to cause to become greater in number, to multiply (increase in number especially greatly). The imperfect tense pictures the church as growing over and over. As