Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 19]
(\peith•n\). Present active conative participle of \peith•\,
trying to persuade (28:23). Paul's idea of the Kingdom of God
was the church of God which he (Jesus, God's Son) had purchased
with his own blood (Ac 20:28, calling Christ God). Nowhere else
had Paul apparently been able to speak so long in the synagogue
without interruption unless it was so at Corinth. These Jews were
already interested (18:30).
19:9 {But when some were hardened} (\h•s de tines eskl•runonto\).
Imperfect passive of \skl•run•\, causative like _hiphil_ in
Hebrew, to make hard (\skl•ros\) or rough or harsh (Mt 25:24).
In LXX and Hippocrates and Galen (in medical writings). In N.T.
only here and Ro 9:18 and 4 times in Heb 3:8,13,15; 4:7,8
quoting and referring to Ps 95:8 about hardening the heart like
a gristle. The inevitable reaction against Paul went on even in
Ephesus though slowly. {Disobedient} (\epeithoun\). Imperfect
again, showing the growing disbelief and disobedience
(\apeith•s\), both ideas as in 14:2; 17:5, first refusal to
believe and then refusal to obey. Both \skl•run•\ and \apeithe•\
occur together, as here, in Ecclus. 30:12. {Speaking evil of the
Way} (\kakologountes t•n hodon\). Late verb from \kakologos\
(speaker of evil) for the old \kak•s leg•\. Already in Mr 7:10;
9:39; Mt 15:4. Now these Jews are aggressive opponents of Paul
and seek to injure his influence with the crowd. Note "the Way"
as in 9:2 for Christianity. {He departed from them} (\apostas
ap' aut•n\). Second aorist active participle of \aphist•mi\, made
an "apostasy" (standing off, cleavage) as he did at Corinth
(18:7, \metabas\, making a change). {Separated the disciples}
(\aph•risen tous math•tas\). First aorist active indicative of
\aphoriz•\, old verb to mark limits (horizon) as already in
13:2. Paul himself was a spiritual Pharisee "separated" to
Christ (Ro 1:1). The Jews regarded this withdrawal as apostasy,
like separating the sheep from the goats (Mt 25:32). Paul now
made a separate church as he had done at Thessalonica and
Corinth. {In the school of Tyrannus} (\en t•i schol•i Turannou\).
\Schol•\ (our school) is an old word from \schein\ (\ech•\) to
hold on, leisure and then in later Greek (Plutarch, etc.) a place
where there is leisure as here. Only this example in the N.T.
This is the Greek notion of "school," the Jewish being that of
"yoke" as in Mt 11:29. The name Tyrannus (our tyrant) is a
common one. It is an inscription in the Columbarium of the
Empress Livia as that of a physician in the court. Furneaux
suggests the possibility that a relative of this physician was
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