Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Acts 18

Paul leaves Athens and goes to Corinth which is 60 miles away. In verse 23, he will begin his third mission which will be his longest. It will be four years in length. During his stay in Corinth, over a year and a half, he writes his first and second epistles to the Thessalonians. The epistles that follow the Book of Acts are not in chronological order but arranged by order of length. So Romans, which is the longest is first because it is the longest epistle. Hebrews is placed in the middle because early Biblical scholars didn't think that Paul had written it.

The year of this chapter is about 52 a.d. Roman historians at that time speak of the Jews being driven out of Rome by Claudiu in 49 a.d. adn this has already taken place.

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