ACTS 19:41 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.”
The assembly was in confusion: Some were shouting one thing, some another — Most of the people did not even know why they were there — Luke's portrait of mob irrationality culminates in dissolution: confusion yields to order, passion to pragmatism. The crowd's historical trajectory moves from unified fervor to fragmented dispersal.
Church Fathers on Acts 19:41
And when he had thus spoken, it says, he dismissed the assembly. Acts 19:41 Do you see how God permits trials, and by them stirs up and awakens the disciples, and makes them more energetic? Then let us not sink down under trials: for He Himself will also make the way of escape, that we may be able to bear them. 1 Corinthians 10:13 Nothing so makes friends, and rivets them so firmly, as affliction: nothing so fastens and compacts the souls of believers: nothing is so…
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