This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...17), his conversion probably took place during this visit. Luke, having stated in general that they preached in these cities, now gives, in the passage forming the lesson, a more particular account of their labors and trials. OUTLINE. The miracle at Lystra (verses 8-19). The effect on the superstitious heathen ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...17), his conversion probably took place during this visit. Luke, having stated in general that they preached in these cities, now gives, in the passage forming the lesson, a more particular account of their labors and trials. OUTLINE. The miracle at Lystra (verses 8-19). The effect on the superstitious heathen multitudes (verses 11-13). The protest of Paul and Barnabas (verses 14-18). The subsequent stoning of Paul, his recovery and departure (verses 19, 20). TEXT. 8. And there sat a certain man at Lystra, im-1 9-The same heard Paul speak: who, steadpotent in his feet, being a cripple from his fastlv beholding him, and perceiving that he mother's womb, who never had walked: I bad faith to be healed, NOTES. 8. At Ly-tni. "This, as well as Derbe (of both which very little further is known), was probably a small town at the foot of the singular mountain-mass known as the Kara-dagh, or Black Mountain; Lystra being south, and Derbe south-east, from Iconinm. The sites are very uncertain. There are the ruins of about forty Christian churches on the north side of the Kara-dagh, at a place called by the Turks Binbir-Kdisseh (the thousand and one churches), which the most recent travellers believe may be Lystra." (Alford.) The distance from Iconinm was perhaps twenty miles. There seems to have been no synagogue there, and no reference is made to Jewish population (see verse 19). "Hence the missionaries repaired to the market, or some other place of public resort (compare chap. xvii. 17), and there entered into conversation with such as they could induce' to listen to them." (Hackett.) Modern missionaries adopt the same plan. Impotent in hi feet. Compare the account in chap. iii. 2-8. The resemblance is marked, yet there are important differences. ...
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