36Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
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He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men. …
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-41)I. Paul is here brought into some trouble at Ephesus, just when he is forecasting to go thence, and to cut out work for himself elsewhere. See here, 1. How he laid his purpose of going to other places, Acts 19:21 , 22 . He was a man of vast designs for God, and was for making his influences as widely diffusive as might be. Having spent above two years at Ephesus, (1.) He designed a visit to the ch…
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