“And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.”
and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them — Paul's trade (skēnopoios, tentmaker) was not uncommon for rabbis; he maintains apostolic self-support. The shared craft forges immediate fraternal bond and practical mutuality.
Church Fathers on Acts 18:3
he came to them, and because he was of the same craft, he abode with them and wrought: for by occupation they were tent-makers. Acts 18:3 Lo, what a justification he found for dwelling in the same house with them! For because here, of all places, it was necessary that he should not receive, as he himself says, That wherein they glory, they may be found, even as we 2 Corinthians 11:12, it is providentially ordered that he there abides. And he reasoned in the synagogue every…
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