ACTS 18:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.”
'For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city' — God's assurance combines protection and harvest: harm prevention secures continued proclamation, while 'many people' (laos) suggests divine pre-knowledge of receptivity. The city's election is already divinely constituted.
Church Fathers on Acts 18:10
And many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized. Then spoke the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not your peace: for I am with you, and no man shall set on you to hurt you: for I have much people in this city. Acts 18:8-10 See by how many reasons He persuades him, and how He puts last the reason which of all others most prevailed with him, I have much people in this city. Then how was it, you may ask, that they set upon…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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