SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:40
Entonces salidos de la crcel, entraron en casa de Lidia; y habiendo visto a los hermanos, los consolaron, y se salieron.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 16:40
Verse 40. Entered into the house of Lydia] This was the place of their residence while at Philippi: see chap. xvi. 15. They comforted them, and departed.] The magistrates were sufficiently humbled, and the public at large, hearing of this circumstance, must be satisfied of the innocency of the apostles. They, therefore, after staying a reasonable time at the house of Lydia, and exhorting the brethren, departed; having as yet to go farther into Macedonia, and to preach the Gospel in the most polished city in the world, the city of Athens. See the succeeding chapter.
GREAT and lasting good was done by this visit to Philippi: a Church was there founded, and the members of it did credit to their profession. To them the apostle, who had suffered so much for their sakes, was exceedingly dear; and they evidenced this by their contributions to his support in the times of his necessity. They sent him money twice to Thessalonica, Phil. iv. 16, and once to Corinth, 2 Cor. xi. 9, and long afterwards, when he was prisoner in Rome, Phil. iv. 9, 14, 18. About five or six years after this, St. Paul visited Philippi on his way to Jerusalem, and he wrote his epistle to them about ten years after his first journey thither. The first members of the Church of Christ in this place were Lydia and her family; and the next in all probability were the jailor and his family. These doubtless became the instruments of bringing many more to the faith; for the false imprisonment and public acquittal of the apostles by the magistrates must have made their cause popular; and thus the means which were used to prevent the sowing of the seed of life in this city became the means by which it was sown and established. Thus the wrath of man praised God; and the remainder of it he did restrain.
Never were these words more exactly fulfilled than on this occasion.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 40. And they went out of the prison , etc.] In a public manner, with great honour and reputation, at the request of the magistrates that put them there: and entered into [the house] of Lydia ; whom Paul had baptized, ( Acts 16:14,15). The word house is rightly supplied, for the sense is not, that they went into the country of Lydia, as some have been tempted to think; but they went to the woman Lydia, whose heart the Lord had opened, and was become a disciple and follower of Christ; they went to her house it being in the city of Philippi, where she now abode, and when they had seen the brethren : the men of Lydias house, her servants, who were converted, and had been baptized with her, and are therefore called brethren; and whomsoever else they might have been instrumental in the conversion of, who might meet them in Lydias house: in Bezas above mentioned copy, it is here added, they declared what the Lord had done for them; they related the earthquake and the effects of it, and how they had been useful for the conversion of the jailer and his family, who had been baptized by them, and by what means they were released from prison; all which they ascribe to the Lord, who has all power, and the hearts of all in his hands: and thus, they comforted them ; with what God had done for them, or exhorted them: to cleave to the Lord, to continue in the faith, and abide by the truths and ordinances of the Gospel: and departed ; that is, out of the city of Philippi; this is wanting in the Syriac and Arabic versions here, but is placed in the beginning of the next chapter: and now these two families, Lydias and the jailers, laid the foundation of a Gospel church in this city of Philippi, and which continued for ages after; Erastus, of whom mention is made in ( Acts 19:22) is said to be bishop of this church, and it may be also Epaphroditus, for there were more bishops than one in this church in the apostles time, ( Philippians 1:1 2:25 4:18), in the second century there was a church, to which Ignatius and Polycarp are said to send epistles; and there are epistles to the Philippians which go under their names, that are still extant: in the third century, Tertullian f831 , among other churches, makes mention of the church at Philippi, as sound in the faith; and in the fourth and fifth centuries we read of a church in this place; in the seventh century, when it went by the name of Chrysopolis, there was a church in it, and a bishop of it, who was present at the sixth council in Constantinople; there were Christians dwelling here in the ninth century f832 .
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 35-40 - Paul, though willing to suffer for the cause of Christ, and without an desire to avenge himself, did not choose to depart under the charge of having deserved wrongful punishment, and therefore required to be dismissed in an honourable manner. It was not a mere point of honou that the apostle stood upon, but justice, and not to himself so much a to his cause. And when proper apology is made, Christians should neve express personal anger, nor insist too strictly upon personal amends The Lord will make them more than conquerors in every conflict; instea of being cast down by their sufferings, they will become comforters of their brethren __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
εξελθοντες 1831 5631 V-2AAP-NPM δε 1161 CONJ εκ 1537 PREP της 3588 T-GSF φυλακης 5438 N-GSF εισηλθον 1525 5627 V-2AAI-3P εις 1519 PREP την 3588 T-ASF λυδιαν 3070 N-ASF και 2532 CONJ ιδοντες 1492 5631 V-2AAP-NPM τους 3588 T-APM αδελφους 80 N-APM παρεκαλεσαν 3870 5656 V-AAI-3P αυτους 846 P-APM και 2532 CONJ εξηλθον 1831 5627 V-2AAI-3P
Vincent's NT Word Studies
40. They went out. Note that Luke here resumes the third person, implying that he did not accompany them.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
16:40 {Into the house of Lydia} (pros ten ludian). No word in the Greek for "house," but it means the house of Lydia. Note "the brethren" here, not merely Luke and Timothy, but other brethren now converted besides those in the house of the jailor. The four missionaries were guests of Lydia (verse #15) and probably the church now met in her home. {They departed} (exelqan). Paul and Silas, but not Luke and Timothy. Note "they" here, not "we." Note also the -an ending instead of -on as above. The movements of Timothy are not perfectly clear till he reappears at Beroea (#17:15). It seems unlikely that he came to Thessalonica with Paul and Silas since only Paul and Silas obtained security there (#17:9) and were sent on to Beroea (#17:10). Probably Timothy was sent to Thessalonica from Philippi with gifts of which Paul spoke later (#Php 4:15f.). qen he followed Paul and Silas to Beroea.
