Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadBullinger Companion Bible Notes - Acts 17:6 - 17:6
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
when, &c. = not (Greek. me. App-105) having found them.
drew = were dragging. Greek. suro. See note on Joh_21:8.
brethren. The believers of Act_17:4.
unto = before. Greek. epi. App-104.
rulers of the city. Greek. politarches, compound oi polites, citizen, and archo, to rule. Only here and Act_17:8. The noun or the corresponding verb is found in many inscriptions in Macedonia, five of them in Thessalonica. One on an arch spanning a street to-day, where seven politarchs are recorded, and amongst them Sosipater, Secundus, and Gaius, names identical with those of Paul's friends (Act_19:29; Act_20:4).
turned . . . upside down. Greek. anastatoo. Only here, Act_21:38. Gal_1:5, Gal_1:12. Compare anastasis. App-178.
world. Greek. oikoumene. App-129.