Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 16:15 - 16:15

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 16:15 - 16:15


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15. καὶ ὁ οἶκος αὐτῆς, and her household. Of a like baptizing of a household see below (Act 16:33), and also cf. Act 11:14. We are not justified in concluding from these passages that infants were baptized. ‘Household’ might mean slaves and freedwomen.

μένετε, abide there. Like the two disciples who followed Jesus (Joh 1:38) Lydia was anxious to have the teachers whose lessons she found so suited to the needs of her opened heart near unto her.

παρεβιάσατο ἡμᾶς, she constrained us. Used in N.T. only by St Luke here and Luk 24:29, of the two disciples at Emmaus. In the LXX. it occurs more frequently and is used (1Sa 28:23) of the constraint put upon Saul at Endor to make him take food, also (2Ki 2:17) of the urgent request made to Elisha by the prophets at Jericho. Cf. also 2Ki 5:16.

The force used was that of a prayer which would accept no ‘Nay.’