 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1838 - 520 pages
...Priscilla ,•1 (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome;) and came unto them. 3. And because he was of the same craft, he abode with...wrought : (for by their occupation they were tentmakers :) 4. And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. If Paul... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 642 pages
...departed from Athens, and came to Corinth, and found a certain Jew, named Aquila, with his wife Priscilla; and because he was of the same craft he abode with...(for by their occupation they were tent-makers,)" Acts xviii. 1 — 3. At Thessalonica likewise this was the case; for he tells the Thessalonians : "... | |
 | William Cogswell - Theology - 1838 - 188 pages
...every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogue every sab'bath day. — Acts xviii. 4. And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. — 1 Ton. ii. 8. I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without... | |
 | James Grant - Clergy - 1839 - 404 pages
...vengeance, we might go on in idleness. If we had a charm by which to take what is * The text was,—" And because he was of the same craft, he abode with...wrought, for by their occupation they were tent-makers." scorching from the flame, and what is gnawing from the worm, we might still continue careless. But... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1839 - 516 pages
...Hence St. Paul says, that he was brought up at the feet of Gamaliel. PAUL A TENT-MAKER. ACTS xviii. 3. Because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought, for by their occupation they were tent-maJcers.] It was a received custom among the Jews for every man, of what rank or quality soever,... | |
 | James Tate - Bible - 1840 - 490 pages
...Corinth St. Paul laboured with his own hands : [A. xviii. 1 . . 3.] " He found Aquila and Priscilla ; and, because he was of " the same craft, he abode...for " by their occupation they were tent-makers." But in the text before us, he is made to say, that " he laboured even unto the present hour," that... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1840 - 790 pages
...in which Luke and Suetonius agree, that the Jews were expelled from Rome during his reign. VER. 3. And because he was of the same craft, he abode with...wrought : for by their occupation they were tent-makers. b Chap. xx. 34. The same craft. — Of the same trade, or occupation. And wrought. — And worked at... | |
 | James Tate - 1840 - 462 pages
...Priscilla ; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome :) and came unto them. 3. And because he was of the same craft, he abode with...wrought: for by their occupation they were tent-makers. 4. And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks whom he found... | |
 | Richard Biscoe - 1840 - 462 pages
...mechanic business was. For St. Paul meeting with Aquila and Priscilla at Corinth, it is said, that "because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers1." However strange this may seem to us, among whom persons that are bred to any learned... | |
 | 1840 - 644 pages
...Priscilla ; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. 3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, b and wrought : for by their occupation they were tentmakers. 4<> And he reasoned in the synagogue... | |
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And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers. 
