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Podcast: BIBLE IN TEN
Episode: Acts 18:16
Description: Monday, 10 July 2023
And he drove them from the judgment seat. Acts 18:16
Gallio just completed his words to the Jews about their appeal against Paul. He wants nothing to do with it. Therefore, Luke next records, “And he drove them from the judgment seat.”
In this statement is a word found only here in Scripture, apelaunó. It is not found in the Greek Septuagint either, but it is used in the same manner as Luke uses it by the classical writers Demosthenes and Plutarch. The Pulpit Commentary says, “It implies the ignomi...