SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:9
Mas endurecindose algunos y no creyendo, maldiciendo el Camino delante de la multitud, apartndose Pablo de ellos separ a los discípulos, disputando cada día en la escuela de un cierto Tiranno.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 19:9
Verse 9. When divers were hardened] tinev, When some of them were hardened; several no doubt felt the power of Divine truth, and yielded consent. Our term divers, one of the most bald in our language, has too general a meaning for this place. Behold the effect of the word of God! It is a savour of life unto life, or death unto death, according as it is received or rejected. The twelve men mentioned above received it affectionately, and they were made partakers of the Holy Ghost; the others were hardened, for they refused to believe; and they calumniated the doctrine, and became Satan's preachers among the multitude, to prejudice them against Christ and his religion.
Separated the disciples] Paul, and those converted under his ministry, had doubtless been in the habit of attending public worship in the synagogue: but, on the persecuting conduct of these Jews; he and his converts wholly withdrew from the synagogue, and took a place for themselves; and constantly afterwards held their own meetings at a school room, which they hired no doubt for the purpose.
The school of one Tyrannus.] For scolh, the school, one MS. has sunagwgh, the synagogue; and, for Tyrannus, some have Tyrannios. Some have considered the original word as being an epithet, rather than the name of a person; and think that a prince or nobleman is intended, because turannov, tyrant, is taken in this sense: but this is a most unlikely conjecture. It appears that the person in question was a schoolmaster, and that he lent or hired his room to the apostles; and that they preached daily in it to as many, both Jews and Gentiles, as chose to attend. It is very likely that Tyrannus was a Jew, and was at least well affected to the Christian cause; for we have many proofs that individuals among them kept schools for the instruction of their youth; besides the schools or academies kept by the more celebrated rabbins. See Schoettgen and Vitringa. The school of Tyrannus might have been such a place as Exeter Hall, and such like places for public and especially for extraordinary religious meetings in London.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 9. But when divers were hardened and believed not , etc.] For though some were affected with and convinced by the arguments the apostle used, others were but the more hardened and remained incredulous: for the Gospel, while it is the savour of life unto life to some, it is the savour of death unto death, to others; as the sun melts the wax, and hardens the clay: but spake evil of the way before the multitude ; the Syriac version and Bezas ancient copy read, before the multitude of the Gentiles: the unbelieving Jews not only contradicted the Gospel preached by the apostle, but blasphemed it, and said all the evil things of it they could, and loaded it with reproaches, and charged it with all the bad consequences they could think of; and that publicly, before all the people, in order to prejudice them against it; for by the way, is meant the doctrine of the Gospel, which the Vulgate Latin here reads, the way of the Lord; and so some copies; and two of Stephenss copies read, the way of God, as does also the Syriac version; and the Arabic version, the way of faith; and the Ethiopic version, the doctrine; the doctrine, which shows the way of Gods salvation by Jesus Christ: he departed from them ; the hardened, unbelieving, and blaspheming Jews, as being unworthy of the means of grace; he went out of their synagogue, and no more entered there: and separated the disciples; from them, the twelve disciples he had laid his hands on, and others who in this space of time, the space of three months, had been converted under his ministry; these he formed into a separate Gospel church state, as well as engaged them to quit the company and conversation of these blasphemers, and no more attend with them in their synagogue, that so they might not be infected and corrupted by them; a separation from such who contradict and blaspheme the truths and ordinances of the Gospel, is justifiable: disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus : which was either built by him, and so went by his name, or which one of this name possessed, and made use of; for it seems to be the proper name of a man, and so the Syriac version renders it, whose name was Tyrannus; though by others it is taken to be an appellative, and to design some great person, who patronised the apostle, and in whose house he taught; the word tyrant, being formerly used for a king, a prince, or nobleman; and so the Arabic version renders it, in the dwelling house of one of the great men; the chief of Asia, that were his friends, ( Acts 19:31) and so the Ethiopic version, and he taught daily before the court and the governors: some copies read Tyrannius; mention is made of a philosopher whose name was Tyrannion, who was so called, because he vexed and disturbed those that were brought up in the same school with him f967 ; this man it seems was a schoolmaster; there was one of his name a bishop of Tyre, a martyr under Dioclesian; and another whose name was Tyrannus, bishop of Antioch f968 ; Bezas ancient copy, and one of Stephenss, add, from the fifth hour to the tenth; as if he spent five hours in public teaching every day, and rest in his trade and devotion.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-12 - When arguments and persuasions only harden men in unbelief an blasphemy, we must separate ourselves and others from such unhol company. God was pleased to confirm the teaching of these holy men of old, that if their hearers believed them not, they might believe the works.
Greek Textus Receptus
ως 5613 ADV δε 1161 CONJ τινες 5100 X-NPM εσκληρυνοντο 4645 5712 V-IPI-3P και 2532 CONJ ηπειθουν 544 5707 V-IAI-3P κακολογουντες 2551 5723 V-PAP-NPM την 3588 T-ASF οδον 3598 N-ASF ενωπιον 1799 ADV του 3588 T-GSN πληθους 4128 N-GSN αποστας 868 5631 V-2AAP-NSM απ 575 PREP αυτων 846 P-GPM αφωρισεν 873 5656 V-AAI-3S τους 3588 T-APM μαθητας 3101 N-APM καθ 2596 PREP ημεραν 2250 N-ASF διαλεγομενος 1256 5740 V-PNP-NSM εν 1722 PREP τη 3588 T-DSF σχολη 4981 N-DSF τυραννου 5181 N-GSM τινος 5100 X-GSM
Robertson's NT Word Studies
19:9 {But when some were hardened} (hws de tines esklerunonto). Imperfect passive of sklerunw, causative like _hiphil_ in Hebrew, to make hard (skleros) or rough or harsh (#Mt 25:24). In LXX and Hippocrates and Galen (in medical writings). In N.T. only here and #Ro 9:18 and 4 times in #Heb 3:8,13,15; 4:7,8 quoting and referring to #Ps 95:8 about hardening the heart like a gristle. The inevitable reaction against Paul went on even in Ephesus though slowly. {Disobedient} (epeiqoun). Imperfect again, showing the growing disbelief and disobedience (apeiqes), both ideas as in #14:2; 17:5, first refusal to believe and qen refusal to obey. Both sklerunw and apeiqew occur together, as here, in Ecclus. 30:12. {Speaking evil of the Way} (kakologountes ten hodon). Late verb from kakologos (speaker of evil) for the old kakws legw. Already in #Mr 7:10; 9:39; Mt 15:4. Now these Jews are aggressive opponents of Paul and seek to injure his influence with the crowd. Note "the Way" as in #9:2 for Christianity. {He departed from them} (apostas ap' autwn). Second aorist active participle of afistemi, made an "apostasy" (standing off, cleavage) as he did at Corinth (#18:7, metabas, making a change). {Separated the disciples} (afwrisen tous maqetas). First aorist active indicative of aforizw, old verb to mark limits (horizon) as already in #13:2. Paul himself was a spiritual Pharisee "separated" to Christ (#Ro 1:1). The Jews regarded this withdrawal as apostasy, like separating the sheep from the goats (#Mt 25:32). Paul now made a separate church as he had done at Thessalonica and Corinth. {In the school of Tyrannus} (en tei scolei turannou). scole (our school) is an old word from scein (ecw) to hold on, leisure and qen in later Greek (Plutarch, etc.) a place where there is leisure as here. Only this example in the N.T. this is the Greek notion of "school," the Jewish being that of "yoke" as in #Mt 11:29. The name Tyrannus (our tyrant) is a common one. It is an inscription in the Columbarium of the Empress Livia as that of a physician in the court. Furneaux suggests the possibility that a relative of this physician was lecturing on medicine in Ephesus and so as a friend of Luke, the physician, would be glad to help Paul about a place to preach. It was probably a public building or lecture hall with this name whether hired by Paul or loaned to him. The pagan sophists often spoke in such halls. The Codex Bezae adds "from the fifth hour to the tenth" as the time allotted Paul for his work in this hall, which is quite possible, from just before midday till the close of the afternoon (from before the noon meal till two hours before sunset) each day. Here Paul had great freedom and a great hearing. As the church grows there will be other places of meeting as the church in the house of Aquila and Priscilla (#1Co 16:19).
