10 For I am y with thee, and no man ſhall ſet on thee, to hurt rhee :+ for I have = much people in this
city.
Chriſt, in this Viſion, uſerh two Arguments to perſwade Paul
14 to continue Preaching the Goſpel art Corinth; 1. y Becauſe he Br | would be with him, to ſupply, ſupport and deliver him ; as 'tis "47 18 promiſed to Jererzah, Fer, 1. 18. and to all the faithful Miniſters of Chriſt, Matth, 28. 20, This promiſe was fulfilled ro Payl, and ro other of God's Servants, whatſoever troubles they mer with, even when they were killed, they were nor hurt, Rom. 8. 26, 38. 7 The . other reaſon why Pau! was commanded to tarry, was, becauſe there were many that God would have called by his Miniſtry, aud thus thoſe who were not his people, God calleth his pleople, as Hoſea 1. 10, and 2, 23,
11. And he || acontinued there a year and ſix months, teaching the word of God among them.
2 He ſate there, as his fixt place 3 which implies his continuance and conſtancy in the work of the Miniſtry,
12 © And when v Gallio was the c deputy of 4 Achaia, the Jews made inſurreftion e with one ac- oy againit Paul, and brought him to the judgment- cat.
6 This Gallio was Brother to that deſervedly famous Seneca, (who was Tutor to Nero ) and hach great commendations given him, as being a man of an excellent diſpoſition, beloved by all men, an Euemy to all Vice, and eſpecially a hates of Flattery.
Xx Cor. I.
|| Gr. ſat. there,
ACT S.
Chap. XVIy
c This man was Proconſul, 4. Governing 4:haia ane all Greees ab [urely 3 or with the power of a Conſul. e Wicked men in their evil deeds are unanimous ; for Satan knows that his Kingdom would not ſtand, 14 ic it were once divided,
13 Saying, This fellow perſwadeth men to worſhip
| God f contrary to the Law. | f Of the Romans, who, to avoid tumulrs and confufions, dig fo | bid ro ſet up any new worſhip withour leave ; and the Fews In theſ parts having here no power to punifh St. Paul as they had at Ja rsſalem, maliciouſly incite the Governour againſt him ; © by * Law here may be meant the Law of Moſes, which they accuſe Pt to have broken, and ſo nor:to be comprehended in thar licence which they had to exerciſe their Religion,
1+ And when Paul was now about tog open hi; mouth, Gallio ſaid unto the Jews, * If it were a matter of h wrong, or wicked lewdneſs, O ye Jews, : reaſyy
would that I ſhould bear with you.
£ To make his Apology, and to ſpeak in his own defence, hb As Murther, Theft, or any ſuch injury, which Judges do uſually ge. termine of, 7 I would endure any trouble ro hear and underſtand ir, T ſhould think irmy duty to ſufter you ro ſay as much ax you would in your caſe, ,
15 But if ir be a queſtion of & words and name: and 2 of your law,look you to zt ; for I will be no judge of n ſuch matters.
k Which have been ſpoken abour the controverſies of Religion { as whether Jeſus was to be called Chriſt or the Meſſiah; and whe. ther his Diſciples might be called Chriſtians, »: Concerning Circyn. cifionz as whether none may be ſaved without it. 7 He acknoy. ledges his unficneſs and unwillingneſs to decermine ſuch things az gig nor belong unto him, or he did nor underſtand.
I6 And heodrave them from the judgment-ſeat,
o He commanded them to be gone, having diſmiſſed their Cale; and if need were, added threatning an1 force,
17 Then all the p Greeks took q Soſthenes, the chief ruler of the ſynagogue, and beat him before the judgment-ſeat : And Gallio cared ry for none of thoſe things.
p Not the converted Greeks, though Sr. Axftin thought they beat Softhenes as an enemy to Pay! (yer ſurely they had not fo learned Chriſt ) but the unbelieving or Guatile-Greeks, who cared for neither Paul, nor Jews, but fayoured Galtio, who would have them drive away. 9 Some think him ro haye been the fame with (jj; Verſe 8. others to have ſucceeded him in that Office: And fone think that he was chief Ruler of another Synagogue ( for in prey Cities there might: be more than one); and others, that there might be ſeveral called chief Rulers over one and the ſame Synagoye, 7 Eicher Nighring the Zews and all their controverſies, or prudenty to decline intermedling with them.
18 © And Paul after this tarried there yet 5a good while, and then took t his leave of the brethren, and ſailed thence into Syria, and with him Priſcilla s and Aquila : ha: ing * ſhorn his head in w Cenchrea : for het
had a vow.
s Ayear and a half in all, as ſome think, which is mentioned, Verſe 11. by a Prolepſis; or befides that year and an half there ſpoken of, t Ordering every thing as it he were ro have taken his laſt farewel of them, as it fell our accordingly : Howloever holy men live in a conſtant expectation of their diffolurion. » That the Wifes name 15 here pur before the Husbands, have cauſed various ccnjeures; and 'tis obſerved, that in St. Paul's Epiſtles, whereas there are threetimes only mention of them both rogether, 12, Rn, 16, 3. I Cor, 16. 19. 2 Tim. 4.19, the Wives name 1s twice placed firſt, to ſhew, that in Chriſt Jeſus there 1s neither Male nor Female, Gal. 3. 28. w Which was a Town at the entring into the Haven belonging ro Corinth, Rom. 16. 1, x To wit, St Paxl hic; and theretore had ſhaven his head according unto the Law, Xn 6, 18, To the Fews he became as a Few,
19 And he came to y Epheſus, and left z them ther? : : but he himſelf entred a into the ſynagogue; and rea- ſoned with the Jews. D y The Metropolis of the leſſer Azz, where afterwards thac f i tie P mous Church was, unto which Sr, Pal wrote an Epiſile, e520 ( St, John wrote another, Rev. 2. I, x\ That is, Ac#illa and Pr fealth at Epheſus, to confirm the believing Epheſcans: whilſt, Pai! 4 Vf ot of an extraordinary love for his Nation, although he had ſuffered Jed
all thoſe indignities from them, yet he would give them precepr up precept, and line upon line,
20 When b they deſired hin to tarry longer tis
with them, c he conſented not :
b Thar is Aquilia and Priſcilla, whom Paul would not my” c By God's wonderſul Providence (which over-rules all our ” l nations) Paul having greater things to do and ſuffer for rhe Glofy of God elſewhere.
21 But bad them farewel, ſaying, [ mult conkes by all means keep d this feaſt that cometh, 1n jou_ #iC lem : but 1 will return again unto you, e * if God WW, And he ſailed from Epheſus. :