“And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man’s house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.”
Then he left the synagogue and went next door to the house of Titius Justus, a worshiper of God (sebomenos ton theon, a God-fearer) — The shift from synagogue to private household, while remaining adjacent, permits continued Jewish encounter while establishing gentile-centered community. Titius Justus's theism bridges Jewish and gentile worlds.
Church Fathers on Acts 18:7
and when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. Acts 18:6 And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue. See how having again said, Henceforth — for all that, he does not neglect them; so that it was to rouse them that he said this, and thereupon…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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