Atos 19

Atos 19

Maclaren wrote, “What they meant to do with the two, they had probably not asked themselves. A mob has no plans, and its most savage acts are unpremeditated. Passion let loose is almost sure to end in bloodshed, and the lives of Gaius and Aristarchus hung by a thread.” Dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus - They snatched them from what they were doing they forced them to go with them. In Acts 20:4+ we read that Paul "was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus, and by Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians (cf Acts 27:2, Col 4:10-11, Php 2:4), and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia." Dragging (4884)(sunarpazo from sun = with ~ intensifies meaning + harpazo = to seize, rapture) means to seize (suddenly and violently), to grasp with great violence. Stronger than harpaz by itself! Of a mob seizing Stephen to drag him away (Acts 6.12); of demon activity seize (Lk 8.29); passive, of a ship in a storm be caught, be forced off course by the wind and swept on (Acts 27.15) Sunarpazo - 4x - Lk. 8:29; Acts 6:12; Acts 19:29; Acts 27:15