Teks -- Acts 19:22 (NET)

19:22 So after sending two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, he himself stayed on for a while in the province of Asia.

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Robertson: Act 19:22 - Timothy and Erastus

Timothy and Erastus ( Timotheon kai Eraston ).

Paul had sent Timothy to Corinth (1Co 4:17) and had requested kindly treatment of this young minister in his difficult task of placating the divided church (1Co 16:10-11) that he might return to Paul as he evidently had before Paul leaves Ephesus. He then despatched Titus to Corinth to finish what Timothy had not quite succeeded in doing with instructions to meet him in Troas. Now Timothy and Erastus (cf. Rom 16:23; 2Ti 4:20) go on to Macedonia to prepare the way for Paul who will come on later.

Robertson: Act 19:22 - He himself stayed in Asia for a while

He himself stayed in Asia for a while ( autos epeschen chronon eis tēn Asian ).

Literally, He himself had additional time in Asia. Second aorist active indicative of epechō , old and common idiom, only here in the N.T. in this sense and the verb only in Luke and Paul. The reason for Paul’ s delay is given by him in 1Co 16:8., the great door wide open in Ephesus. Here again Luke and Paul supplement each other. Pentecost came towards the end of May and May was the month of the festival of Artemis (Diana) when great multitudes would come to Ephesus. But he did not remain till Pentecost as both Luke and Paul make plain.

JFB: Act 19:21-22 - After these things were ended

Completed, implying something like a natural finish to his long period of labor at Ephesus.

JFB: Act 19:21-22 - Paul purposed . . . when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem . . . After I have been there, I must also see Rome

Mark here the vastness of the apostle's missionary plans. They were all fulfilled, though he "saw Rome" only as a prisoner.

JFB: Act 19:22 - So he sent into Macedonia . . . Timotheus and Erastus

As his pioneers, in part to bring "them into remembrance of his ways which were in Christ" (1Co 4:17; 1Co 16:10), partly to convey his mind on various matters. After a brief stay he was to return (1Co 16:11). It is very unlikely that this Erastus was "the chamberlain of the city" of Corinth, of that name (Rom 16:23).

JFB: Act 19:22 - he himself stayed in

The province of

JFB: Act 19:22 - Asia for a season

That is, at Ephesus, its chief city. (Asia is mentioned in contrast with Macedonia in the previous clause).

Clarke: Act 19:22 - So he sent into Macedonia

So he sent into Macedonia - He desired Timothy to go as far as Corinth, 1Co 4:18, and after that to return to him at Ephesus, 1Co 16:11; but he himself continued in Asia some time longer; probably to make collections for the poor saints in Jerusalem. Erastus, mentioned here for the first time, appears to have been the chamberlain, οικονομος, either of Ephesus or Corinth; see Rom 16:23. He was one of St. Paul’ s companions, and is mentioned as being left by the apostle at Corinth, 2Ti 4:20.

TSK: Act 19:22 - Macedonia // that ministered // Erastus

Macedonia : Act 16:9, Act 16:10, Act 18:5, Act 20:1; 2Co 1:16, 2Co 2:13, 2Co 8:1, 2Co 11:9; 1Th 1:8

that ministered : Act 13:5, Act 16:3

Erastus : Rom 16:23; 2Ti 4:20

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Poole: Act 19:22 - Ministered unto him // Erastus // In Asia

Ministered unto him this great apostle had not any to minister unto him out of state, but out of necessity, being he could not himself attend to all the offices of the church. These were employed by Paul, not so much to procure any accommodation for himself by the way, as to further a collection for the poor brethren at Jerusalem, 2Co 9:3,4 .

Erastus: there seems to have been two of this name mentioned in Scripture: the one, Rom 16:23 , and the other, 2Ti 4:20 : the latter is here spoken of.

In Asia in Ephesus, which was in Asia, where Paul now was.

Gill: Act 19:22 - So he sent into Macedonia // two of them that ministered unto him // Timotheus and Erastus // But he himself stayed in Asia for a season

So he sent into Macedonia,.... To Philippi, or Thessalonica, or Berea, or some of the places there, to let them know of his coming, and to prepare for him:

two of them that ministered unto him; that were his assistants in preaching the Gospel:

Timotheus and Erastus; the former of these was a disciple he found at Lystra, and took along with him, and to whom he afterwards wrote two epistles; and the latter seems to be the same with him, who was chamberlain of the city of Corinth, and is said to abide there, Rom 16:23 The Ethiopic version, instead of Erastus, wrongly reads Aristarchus; whereas it is certain, he was not sent into Macedonia, but was with the apostle at Ephesus in the tumult, Act 19:29.

But he himself stayed in Asia for a season; that is, at Ephesus, as the following narration shows.