2And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,
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For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)These travels of Paul which are thus briefly related, if all in them had been recorded that was memorable and worthy to be written in letters of gold, the world would not contain the books that would have been written; and therefore we have only some general hints of occurrences, which therefore ought to be the more precious. Here is, I. Paul’s departure from Ephesus. He had tarried there longer t…
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