John Bengel Commentary - Acts 18:6 - 18:6

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John Bengel Commentary - Acts 18:6 - 18:6


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Act 18:6. Ἐκτιναξάμενος, having shaken) The meaning of this gesture (significant act) is understood from the words with which he accompanied it.-αἷμα, your blood) souls. “Life” and death are put in antithesis: also, “life” and soul on the one hand, and death and the shedding of the blood on the other: comp. 1Sa 22:22, εἰμι αἴτιος τῶν ψυχῶν, “I am the occasion of the lives” (being taken).-ἐπὶ) The Hebrew על, upon. This denotes guilt resting or falling upon.-καθαρὸς ἐγὼ, I am clean) No one can say so, who has not previously fulfilled (the duty of giving) his testimony.-πορεύσομαι, I will go) So Paul changed his lodging: and yet he did not entirely withdraw himself from the better class of Jews, whom he made by this very act the more earnestly attentive.