Kisah Para Rasul 14:11

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ketika orang banyak melihat apa yang telah diperbuat Paulus, mereka itu berseru dalam bahasa Likaonia: "Dewa-dewa telah turun ke tengah-tengah kita dalam rupa manusia."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ketika orang banyak melihat apa yang telah diperbuat Paulus, mereka itu berseru dalam bahasa Likaonia: "Dewa-dewa telah turun ke tengah-tengah kita dalam rupa manusia."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tatkala orang banyak nampak perbuatan Paulus itu, mereka itu pun mengangkat suaranya sambil berkata dengan bahasa Likaonia, "Dewa-dewa telah turun kepada kita menjelma menjadi manusia."

Contextual Overview

⁸ And there sate a certayne man at Lystra, weake in his feete, beyng a creple from his mothers wombe, and neuer had walked. ⁹ The same hearde Paul speake: which beholdyng hym, and perceauyng that he had sayth to be whole, ¹⁰ Sayde with a loude voyce: stande vpryght on thy feete. And he start vp, and walked. ¹¹ And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lyft vp their voyces, saying in the speache of Lycaonia: Gods are come downe to vs in the lykenesse of men. ¹² And they called Barnabas Iupiter, and Paul Mercurius, because he was the chiefe speaker. ¹³ Then Iupiters priest, which was before their citie, brought oxen and garlandes vnto the doore, and woulde haue done sacrifice with the people. ¹⁴ Which when the Apostles, Barnabas & Paul heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying, ¹⁵ And saying: Sirs, why do ye these thynges? We are mortall men lyke vnto you, and preach vnto you, that ye shoulde turne from these vanities, vnto the lyuyng God, which made heauen and earth, and the sea, and all thynges that are therin. ¹⁶ The which in tymes past suffred all nations to walke in their owne wayes. ¹⁷ Neuerthelesse, he left not hym selfe without witnesse, in that he shewed his benefites from heauen, in geuyng vs rayne and fruitefull seasons, fillyng our heartes with foode and gladnesse.

Bible Verse Review
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The gods: Acts 8:10, Acts 12:22, Acts 28:6

Reciprocal: Daniel 5:11 - light Mark 7:37 - were John 19:8 - heard Acts 2:7 - amazed Acts 3:9 - General Acts 3:12 - or Acts 10:25 - and fell Acts 14:6 - Lycaonia 2 Corinthians 4:5 - we 2 Corinthians 6:8 - honour Revelation 19:10 - I fell

Cross-References

Genesis 12:5
And Abram toke Sarai his wyfe, and Lot his brothers sonne, & all their substaunce that they had in possession, and the soules that they had begotten in Haran, and they departed, that they might come into the lande of Chanaan: and into the lande of Chanaan they came.

Genesis 14:16
And recouered all the goodes, and also brought agayne his brother Lot, & his goodes, the wome also, & the people.

Genesis 14:21
And the kyng of Sodome sayde vnto Abram: geue me the soules, and take the goodes to thy selfe.

Deuteronomy 28:31
Thine oxe shalbe slayne before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eate thereof: Thyne asse shalbe violently taken away euen before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee agayne: Thy sheepe shalbe geuen vnto thyne enemies, and no man shall rescue them.

Deuteronomy 28:35
The Lorde shall smyte thee in the knees and legges with a mischeuous botch that can not be healed, euen from the sole of thy foote, vnto the top of thy head.

Deuteronomy 28:51
The same shall eate the fruite of thy cattell, and the fruite of thy lande, vntill he haue destroyed thee: and shall leaue thee neither corne, wyne, nor oyle, neither the encrease of thy kine, nor the flockes of thy sheepe, vntyll he haue brought thee to naught:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the people saw what Paul had done,.... In curing the lame man in so marvellous a manner, and concluding it to be a divine work, and what a mere creature could never perform:

they lift up their voices; not in indignation and wrath, but as persons astonished:

saying in the speech of Lycaonia; by which it should seem that Lystra was a city of Lycaonia, since the Lycaonian language was spoken in it; the Arabic version reads, "in their own tongue"; and the Syriac version, "in the dialect of the country"; very likely a dialect of the Greek tongue;

the gods are come down to us in the likeness of men; they had a notion of deity, though a very wrong one; they thought there were more gods than one, and they imagined heaven to be the habitation of the gods; and that they sometimes descended on earth in human shape, as they supposed they now did.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They lifted up their voices - They spoke with astonishment, such as might be expected when it was supposed that the gods had come down.

In the speech of Lycaonia - What this language was has much perplexed commentators. It was probably a mixture of the Greek and Syriac. In that region generally the Greek was usually spoken with more or less purity; and from the fact that it was not far from the regions of Syria, it is probable that the Greek language was corrupted with this foreign admixture.

The gods ... - All the region was idolatrous. The gods which were worshipped there were those which were worshipped throughout Greece.

Are come down - The miracle which Paul had performed led them to suppose this. It was evidently beyond human ability, and they had no other way of accounting for it than by supposing that their gods had personally appeared.

In the likeness of men - Many of their gods were heroes, whom they worshipped after they were dead. It was a common belief among them that the gods appeared to people in human form. The poems of Homer, of Virgil, etc., are filled with accounts of such appearances, and the only way in which they supposed the gods to take knowledge of human affairs, and to help people, was by their personally appearing in this form. See Homer’s Odyssey, xvii. 485; Catullus, 64, 384; Ovid’s Metamorph., i. 212 (Kuinoel). Thus, Homer says:

“For in similitude of strangers oft.

The gods, who can with ease all shapes assume,

Repair to populous cities, where they mark.

Th’ outrageous and the righteous deeds of men.”

Cowper.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 14:11. Saying, in the speech of Lycaonia — What this language was has puzzled the learned not a little. Calmet thinks it was a corrupt Greek dialect; as Greek was the general language of Asia Minor. Mr. Paul Ernest Jablonski, who has written a dissertation expressly on the subject, thinks it was the same language with that of the Cappadocians, which was mingled with Syriac. That it was no dialect of the Greek must be evident from the circumstance of its being here distinguished from it. We have sufficient proofs from ancient authors that most of these provinces used different languages; and it is correctly remarked, by Dr. Lightfoot, that the Carians, who dwelt much nearer Greece than the Lycaonians, are called by Homer, βαρβαροφωνοι, people of a barbarous or strange language; and Pausanias also called them Barbari. That the language of Pisidia was distinct from the Greek we have already seen, Clarke's note on "Acts 13:15". We have no light to determine this point; and every search after the language of Lycaonia must be, at this distance of time, fruitless.

The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. — From this, and from all heathen antiquity, it is evident:

1. That the heathen did not consider the Divine nature, how low soever they rated it, to be like the human nature.

2. That they imagined that these celestial beings often assumed human forms to visit men, in order to punish the evil and reward the good. The Metamorphoses of Ovid are full of such visitations; and so are Homer, Virgil, and other poets. The angels visiting Abraham, Jacob, Lot, c., might have been the foundation on which most of these heathen fictions were built.

The following passage in HOMER will cast some light upon the point:-

Και τε Θεοι, ξεινοισιν εοικοτες αλλοδαποισι,

Παντοιοι τελεθοντες, επιστρωφωσι ποληας,

Ανθρωπων ὑβριν τε και ευνομιην εφορωντες.

Hom. Odyss. xvii. ver. 485.

For in similitude of strangers oft,

The gods, who can with ease all shapes assume,

Repair to populous cities, where they mark

The outrageous and the righteous deeds of men.

COWPER.

OVID had a similar notion, where he represents Jupiter coming down to visit the earth, which seems to be copied from Genesis, Genesis 18:20-21: And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is grievous, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me: and if not, I will know.

Contigerat nostras infamia temporis aures:

Quam cupiens falsam, summo delabor Olympo.

Et deus humana lustro sub imagine terras.

Longa mora est, quantum noxae sit ubique repertum,

Enamerare: minor fuit ipsa infamia vero.

Metam. lib. i. ver. 211.

The clamours of this vile, degenerate age,

The cries of orphans, and the oppressor's rage,

Had reached the stars: "I will descend," said I,

In hope to prove this loud complaint a lie.

Disguised in human shape, I travelled round

The world, and more than what I heard, I found.

DRYDEN.

It was a settled belief among the Egyptians, that their gods, sometimes in the likeness of men, and sometimes in that of animals which they held sacred, descended to the earth, and travelled through different provinces, to punish, reward, and protect. The Hindoo Avatars, or incarnations of their gods, prove how generally this opinion had prevailed. Their Poorana are full of accounts of the descent of Brahma, Vishnoo, Shiva, Naradu, and other gods, in human shape. We need not wonder to find it in Lycaonia.