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Acts 18:11

Acts 18:11

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Dwelt for continued, A.V. Dwelt; literally, sat down, as , etc., and hence to "remain quietly" (). A year and six months. It is not clear whether these eighteen months are to be measured to the end of St.

Paul's stay at Corinth, or only to the rising up of the Jews related in . Renan is doubtful. Howson does not go into the question. But Lewin rightly measures the eighteen months down to Gallio's arrival.

And so does Meyer, who also notices the force of ἐκάθισε, as indicating a quiet, undisturbed abode, and calls special attention to the ἔτι of , as showing that the "many days" there mentioned were additional to the year and a half of .

The only longer residence we know of was that of three years at Ephesus ().

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