Confirming (επιστηριζοντες). Late verb (in LXX), in N.T. only in Ac 14:22; 15:32,41, to make more firm, to give additional (επ) st…

Confirming. Strengthening—episthrizontev. The expression "to confirm" has in some churches a technical meaning, denoting "to admi…

Confirming the souls of the disciples.—Better, perhaps, strengthening, so as to avoid the more definite associat…

(21a) Derbe was situated in the southeastern part of the Lycaonian region of Galatia, about sixty miles southeast of Lystra. In 25 B. C. Augustus i…

And exhorting them. This was the principal way to confirm them, as they urged the disciples who had previously embraced the Gospel and pro…

Confirming the souls of the disciples
Not wicked men in their wickedness, nor self-righteous persons in an opinion o…

See how restless the rage of the Jews was against the gospel of Christ. The people stoned Paul in a popular tumult. So strong is the inclination of…