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When they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
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Your Life is Your Sermon
Commentators unanimously highlight that Paul begins his farewell by appealing to his own conduct. He confidently says, "You yourselves know" how I lived among you. This wasn't boasting; it was demonstrating that the truth of the gospel was validated by his consistent, observable life. This serves as a powerful reminder that a believer's most convincing testimony is a life lived with integrity before others.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And when they were come to him. The discourse that follows is one of the most tender, affectionate, and eloquent that can be found anywher…
Ye yourselves know (υμεις επιστασθε). Pronoun expressed and emphatic. He appeals to their personal knowledge of his life in Ephesu…
19th Century
Anglican
You know, from the first day that I came into Asia...—No discourse recorded in the Acts is so full of living personal interest. Saint Luke…
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Paul’s address to the Ephesian elders begins with an apologia that closely parallels 1 Thessalonians 2:1–12. As at Thessalonica, eviden…
16th Century
Protestant
You know. Paul, in this sermon, focuses principally on this: exhorting those pastors of Ephesus, by his own example, to do their duty fait…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when they were come to him That is, when the elders or pastors of the church at Ephesus were come to the apostle…
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The elders knew that Paul was no designing, self-seeking man. Those who would serve the Lord acceptably in any office, and profitably to others, mu…
