Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comVincent Word Studies - Acts 9:31 - 9:31
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
The churches
The best texts read the church; embracing all the different churches throughout the three provinces of Palestine.
Edified
Or built up.
Comfort (παρακλήσει)
From παρακαλέω, call toward or to one's side for help. The word is rendered in the New Testament both exhortation and consolation. Compare Act 13:15; Rom 12:8; 2Co 8:17; Heb 12:5; and Luk 2:25 (see note); 2Th 2:16; Mat 5:4. In some passages the meaning is disputed, as Phi 2:1, where, as in 1Co 14:3, it is joined with παραμύθιον or παραμυθία, the meaning of which also varies between incentive and consolation or assuagement. Here exhortation is the rendering approved by the best authorities, to be construed with was multiplied: was multiplied by the exhortation of the Holy Ghost; i.e., by the Holy Spirit inspiring the preachers, and moving the hearts of the hearers.