Act 19:22, 29 | JFB | e4.org | 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" ( ), partly to convey his mind on various matters. After a brief stay he was to return ( ). It is very unlikely that this Erastus was "the chamberlain of the city" of Corinth, of that name ( ). he himself stayed in —the province of Asia for a season —that is, at Ephesus, its chief city. (Asia is mentioned in contrast with Macedonia in the previous clause).

‏ Acts 19:22

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; 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 (Ro 16:23).

he himself stayed in—the province of

Asia for a season—that is, at Ephesus, its chief city. (Asia is mentioned in contrast with Macedonia in the previous clause).

‏ Acts 19:29

29. having caught Gaius and Aristarchus—disappointed of Paul, as at Thessalonica (Ac 17:5, 6). They are mentioned in Ac 20:4; 27:2; Ro 16:23; 1Co 1:14; and probably 3Jo 1. If it was in the house of Aquila and Priscilla that he found an asylum (see 1Co 16:9), that would explain Ro 16:3, 4, where he says of them that "for his life they laid down their own necks" [HOWSON].

rushed . . . into the theatre—a vast pile, whose ruins are even now a wreck of immense grandeur [SIR C. FELLOWES, Asia Minor, 1839].