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. 1881 Excerpt: ...when he dictated his last letter to Timothy, we learn that they were then once more in Ephesus. It does not appear whether when the apostle first made their acquaintance Aquila and Priscilla were Christians or not. They had come from Rome; and as there were already many disciples in that city, it is not impossible that ...
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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. 1881 Excerpt: ...when he dictated his last letter to Timothy, we learn that they were then once more in Ephesus. It does not appear whether when the apostle first made their acquaintance Aquila and Priscilla were Christians or not. They had come from Rome; and as there were already many disciples in that city, it is not impossible that they were converted there. Had that been the case, however, we might have expected that they would have been described here as adherents to the faith. On the other hand, if their conversion had occurred after Paul had come to know them, and in consequence of his dealings with them, we might have supposed that such a fact would have been recorded, and that he would have somewhere spoken of them as his children in the faith, or have numbered them, as he did others, among "the first-fruits of Achaia unto Christ." On the whole, therefore, I am disposed to conclude that they were already Christians, and that Paul found in that the reason which determined him to take up his abode with them. Suetonius; Claudius, c. 25. See the passage quoted and commented on by Plumptre in Ellicott's " New Testament Commentary for English Keaders," vol. ii., p. 120. At his first arrival in Corinth, Paul was thrown entirely on his own resources for his temporal support; and all through his residence there he refused to accept anything from any of the converts in acknowledgment of his spiritual services. He did this, not because he had any hesitation about the principle that he that is taught in the word ought to communicate to him that teacheth in all good things, but rather because, as at Thessalonica, there was some local reason why he considered it inexpedient that he should not insist upon his right; and in his letters to them he is careful to...
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