“And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.”
There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome — Claudius's expulsion (likely 49 AD) provides historical anchoring; Suetonius corroborates Jewish expulsion under Claudius. Aquila and Priscilla embody diaspora Jewish resilience and mobility.
Church Fathers on Acts 18:2
and Priscilla his wife, because that Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. Acts 18:2 For though it was in the reign of Nero that the war against the Jews was consummated, yet from the time of Claudius and thenceforward it was fanning up, at a distance indeed, so that, were it but so, they might come to their senses, and from Rome they were now driven as common pests. This is why it is so ordered by Providence that Paul was led there as a prisoner, that he…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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