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A Prophetic Warning
Commentators widely agree that the Holy Spirit's "witnessing" was not just a private feeling. In city after city, Christian prophets were inspired by the Spirit to publicly foretell the "bonds and afflictions" that awaited Paul in Jerusalem. This external, prophetic confirmation prepared Paul for what was to come.
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Albert Barnes
On Acts 20:23
18th Century
Theologian
Save that. Except that. This was all that he knew: that bonds and afflictions were to be his portion.
The Holy Ghost witnesses<…
AT Robertson
On Acts 20:23
Save that (πλην οτ). The οτ clause is really in the ablative case after πλην, here a preposition as in Php 1:18, this idiom πλην ο…
Charles Ellicott
On Acts 20:23
19th Century
Bishop
The Holy Ghost witnesses in every city.—This can hardly refer to mere internal previsions of the future, but implies, lik…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Acts 20:23
The second section of Paul’s address concerns his plans to go to Jerusalem. Many have claimed a discrepancy between his being “compelled by the Spi…
John Calvin
On Acts 20:23
16th Century
Theologian
But that the Holy Ghost. I do not understand this to refer to secret oracles, but to those prophecies which he heard everywhere from the p…
John Gill
On Acts 20:23
17th Century
Pastor
Save that the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city
As he passed along, where there was a church, or any number of sain…
Matthew Henry
On Acts 20:17–27
17th Century
Minister
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…