ACTS 20:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,”
When they arrived, he said to them: 'You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I came into the province of Asia' — Paul's opening invokes personal witness (oida, you know from observation): his apostolic conduct has been transparently visible. Accountability to leadership and community becomes foundational claim.
Church Fathers on Acts 20:18
See him, hasting to sail by, and yet not overlooking them, but taking order for all. Having sent for the rulers, through those he discourses to them (the Ephesians): but it is worthy of admiration, how finding himself under a necessity of saying certain great things about himself, he tries to make the least he can of it (πειρἅτα μετριάζειν). You know. For just as Samuel, when about to deliver up the government to Saul says in their presence, Have I taken anything of your…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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