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Postulasagan 15:40
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
chose: Acts 15:22, Acts 15:32, Acts 16:1-3
being: Acts 13:3, Acts 14:26, Acts 20:32, 1 Corinthians 15:10, 2 Corinthians 13:14, 2 Timothy 4:22, Titus 3:15, 2 John 1:10, 2 John 1:11
Reciprocal: Exodus 31:6 - I have given Ecclesiastes 4:9 - are Acts 16:3 - would Acts 17:4 - Silas 2 Corinthians 11:26 - journeyings 2 Corinthians 11:28 - the care 1 Thessalonians 1:1 - Silvanus
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Paul chose Silas,.... To be his companion and assistant; this being the design of the Holy Ghost in influencing his, mind to stay longer at Antioch, after he, with Judas, was dismissed by the church to go to Jerusalem, Acts 15:33
and departed; that is, from Antioch:
being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God;
Acts 15:33- :. The apostle having such a recommendation by the brethren of the church at Antioch, when he departed from them, and nothing of this kind being said with respect to Barnabas, have induced some to think, that the church took the part of the apostle against Barnabas, in the dispute between them; since the one went away saluted by them, and the other not.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Being recommended - Being commended by prayer to God. See notes on Acts 14:26.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Acts 15:40. Being recommended - unto the grace of God. — Much stress has been laid upon this, to show that Barnabas was in the wrong, and Paul in the right, because "the brethren recommended Paul and Silas to the grace of God; but they did not recommend Barnabas and John Mark: this proves that the Church condemned the conduct of Barnabas, but approved that of Paul." Now, there is no proof that the Church did not recommend Barnabas to the grace of God, as well as Paul; but, as St. Luke had for the present dropped the story of Barnabas, and was now going on with that of Paul and Silas, he begins it at this point, viz. his being recommended by the brethren to the grace of God; and then goes on to tell of his progress in Syria, Derbe, Lystra, c., &c. See the next chapter. And with this verse should the following chapter begin and this is the division followed by the most correct copies of the Greek text.
