Lesson 9 · February 26, 1898
Apollos and Paul at Ephesus
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- 1.What eminent man is introduced in the scripture before us? What was his birthplace? and what natural and acquired talents had he? To what place did he come? .
- 2.In what was he instructed? What is said of his zeal? What did he do? To what was his knowledge of the things of the Lord limited? .
- 3.How was his knowledge perfected? .
- 4.Where did he afterward go? How was the way prepared for his reception? On his arrival, what good did he accomplish? .
- 5.How did he accomplish this? .
- 6.While Apollos was laboring in Corinth, to what place did Paul come? .
- 7.What question did he put to certain disciples whom he found there? What was their reply? .
- 8.What did they say about their baptism? .
- 9.What did Paul then tell them about the baptism of John? .
- 10.When they heard this, what did they do? .
- 11.What followed their baptism? What did they then do? .
- 12.How many men were there who had this experience? .
- 13.What work did Paul then engage in? For how long? .
- 14.What effect did his preaching have on some? What did Paul therefore do? .
- 15.How long did he continue this work? With what result? .
- 16.What wonderful power did God manifest through Paul? .
- 17.Who tried to imitate this work? How many of them were there? .
- 18.How did they proceed? What was the result of their effort? .
- 19.How far did the news of this spread? What gain resulted to the truth? .
- 20.What were many believers led to do? .
- 21.To what had they been addicted? How real was their renunciation of magic? What was the value of the books thus destroyed? .
- 22.What power was it that effected this wonderful change? What is said of the Word of God? .
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Notes
"We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost." What had John proclaimed in his preaching? . Could these twelve men, then, ever have seen or heard John the Baptist? Could they have been at all acquainted with John's teaching? Had they, judging from , even heard anything about Christ? In whom, then, had they been blindly believing?
"'Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?' The two verbs are in the aorist tense, and therefore denote instantaneous acts. The Authorized Version therefore gives an entirely wrong idea, as there is no question about what happened after believing; but the question relates to what occurred when they believed. Hence (Revised Version) rightly, Did ye receive the Holy Ghost when ye believed? 'We have not heard.' Also the aorist. We did not hear, referring back to the time of their beginning. 'Whether there be any Holy Ghost.' But, as Bengel observes, 'They could not have followed either Moses or John the Baptist without having heard of the Holy Ghost.' The words, therefore, are to be explained, not of their being unaware of the existence of the Holy Ghost, but of his presence and baptism on earth. The word estin, there be, is to be taken in the sense of be present, or be given, as in , where it is said, 'The Holy Ghost was not yet (oupō ēn),' and where the translators rightly render, 'was not yet given.'"—Vincent.
Bible texts in this lesson
Acts 18:24-999 · Acts 19:1-20 · Acts 18:24 · Acts 18:25 · Acts 18:26 · Acts 18:27 · Acts 18:28 · Acts 19:1 · Acts 19:2 · Acts 19:3 · Acts 19:4 · Acts 19:5 · Acts 19:6 · Acts 19:7 · Acts 19:8 · Acts 19:9 · Acts 19:10 · Acts 19:11 · Acts 19:12 · Acts 19:13 · Acts 19:14 · Acts 19:15 · Acts 19:16 · Acts 19:17 · Acts 19:18 · Acts 19:19 · Acts 19:20 · Matthew 3:11 · John 7:39
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