26<\/strong>. And suddenly there was a great earthquake<\/em> ] Just as the place wherein the Apostles prayed (Act 4:31<\/span>) was shaken, so here God testifies that He is near at hand.<\/p>\n and every one’s bands were loosed<\/em> ] The sense in which these words are to be taken may be gathered from the rest of the description. The chains ( ) were made fast to the wall, and the shock which burst asunder the bolts of the doors also released the fastenings which held the chains in the masonry.<\/p>\n And suddenly – <\/B>While they were praying and singing.<\/P> A great earthquake – <\/B>Mat 28:2<\/B><\/span>. An earthquake, in such circumstances, was regarded as a symbol of the presence of God, and as an answer to prayer. See the notes on Act 4:31<\/span>. The design of this was, doubtless, to furnish them proof of the presence and protection of God, and to provide a way for them to escape. It was one among the series of wonders by which the gospel was established, and the early Christians protected amidst their dangers.<\/P> And immediately all the doors were opened – <\/B>An effect that would naturally follow from the violent concussion of the earthquake. Compare Act 5:19<\/span>.<\/P> Everyones bands were loosed – <\/B>This was evidently a miracle. Some have supposed that their chains were dissolved by electric fluid; but the narrative gives no account of any such fluid, even supposing such an effect to be possible. It was evidently a direct interposition of divine power. But for what purpose it was done is not recorded. Grotius supposes that it was that they might know that the apostles might be useful to them and to others, and that by them their spiritual bonds might be loosed. Probably the design was to impress all the prisoners with the conviction of the presence and power of God, and thus to prepare them to receive the message of life from the lips of his servants Paul and Silas. They had just before heard them singing and praying; they were aware, doubtless, of the cause for which they were imprisoned; they saw evident tokens that they were the servants of the Most High, and under his protection; and their own minds were impressed and awed by the terrors of the earthquake, and by the fact of their own liberation. It renders this scene the more remarkable, that though the doors were opened, and the prisoners loosed, yet no one made any attempt to escape.<\/P> <\/p>\n Act 16:26<\/span><\/p>\n And suddenly there was a great earthquake.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The earthquake at Philippi<\/strong><\/p>\n A miraculous act of the breaker of all bonds.<\/p>\n Earthquakes<\/strong><\/p>\n We have all read of the earthquake in Lisbon, in Lima, in Aleppo, and in Caraceas; but we live in a latitude where in all our memory there has not been one severe volcanic disturbance. And yet we have seen fifty earthquakes. Here is a man who has been building up a large fortune. His bid on the money market was felt in all the cities. He thinks he has got beyond all annoying rivalries in trade, and he says to himself, Now I am free and safe from all possible perturbation. But in 1837, or in 1857, or in 1873, a national panic strikes the foundations of the commercial world, and crash f goes all that magnificent business establishment. Here is a man who has built up a very beautiful home. His daughters have just come home from the seminary with diplomas of graduation. His sons have started in life, honest, temperate, and pure. When the evening lights are struck, there is a happy and unbroken family circle. But there has been an accident down at Long Branch. The young man ventured too far out in the surf. The telegraph hurled the terror up to the city. An earthquake struck under the foundations of that beautiful home. The piano closed; the curtains dropped; the laughter hushed. Crash! go all those domestic hopes, and prospects, and expectations. So, my friends, we have all felt the shaking down of some great trouble, and there was a time when we were as much excited as this man of the text, and we cried out as he did: What shall I do?<\/p>\n The midnight hour in the prison of Philippi, an image of the great hour of the Lord<\/strong><\/p>\n 1<\/strong>. <\/em><\/strong>The world sleeps, but believers wait for it with watchfulness and prayer.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>The earth quakes, but the Lord is near.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>The servants of sin tremble before judgment.<\/p>\n 4. <\/strong>The children of the kingdom lift up their heads with joy, because their redemption draweth nigh. (K. Gerok.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n God a powerful Ally<\/strong><\/p>\n When John G. Paton, upon his little island of Anyeitum, was almost giving up hope of life, though still trying to pacify the bloodthirsty natives, it happened that upon the far horizon line a ships sails were seen and a line of smoke going up into the sky. The fire steamer comes, cried the natives in wild terror, and ran to hide themselves in the bush. The chief, who had been so cruel, came to beg Paton for his life. It seemed like the last judgment to these poor ignorant subjects. But what was it to the missionary? To him the connecting link with his own country, the help and strength of new life. When the ship came it proved to be one of Her Majestys men-of-war, and the sight of the power of Patons Queen so struck the native imagination that they decided to leave the man who had such powerful friends to do his work unharmed. So behind the Christian there is the Christians God, all-powerful, all-willing.<\/p>\n Verse 26<\/span>. There was a great earthquake<\/B><\/I>] Thus God bore a miraculous testimony of approbation to his servants; and, by the earthquake, and loosing the bonds of the prisoners, showed, in a symbolical way, the nature of that religion which they preached: while it shakes and terrifies the guilty, it proclaims deliverance to the captives, and the opening of the prison-doors to them that are bound; and sets at liberty them that are bruised.<\/P> <\/P> Every one’s bands were loosed.<\/B><\/I>] And yet so eminently did God’s providence conduct every thing, that not one of the prisoners made his escape, though the doors were open, and his bolts off!<\/P><\/p>\n Suddenly; how soon is prayer answered, when the fulness of time is come! So nigh is God unto all that call upon him, Psa 34:17<\/span>; 145:18<\/span>. <\/P> There was a great earthquake; an earthquake did usually precede some wonderful matter, as Mat 28:2<\/span>. And although God could have delivered these his servants without an earthquake, yet, to show the more that their deliverance was his work, and it was no artifice or force of their own, he manifested his power after this manner. <\/P> Every ones bands were loosed; either by the earthquake, or some secret power of an angel, or by God himself immediately, that the apostles and others might know that the souls of men should be loosed and set free by them, whose bodies for that purpose were now freed by God. <\/P> <\/p>\n 26-28. And suddenly there was agreat earthquake<\/B>in answer, doubtless, to the prayers andexpectations of the sufferers that, for the truth’s sake and thehonor of their Lord, some interposition would take place. <\/P> every one’s bands<\/B>thatis, the bands of all the prisoners. <\/P> were loosed<\/B>not by theearthquake, of course, but by a miraculous energy accompanying it. Bythis and the joyous strains which they had heard from the sufferers,not to speak of the change wrought on the jailer, these prisonerscould hardly fail to have their hearts in some measure opened to thetruth; and this part of the narrative seems the result of informationafterwards communicated by one or more of these men.<\/P><\/p>\n And suddenly there was a great earthquake<\/strong>,…. An extraordinary and unusual one; which did not arise from natural causes, from wind being pent up in the earth, but from the prayers and praises of the saints, going up to heaven; when God was pleased to testify his presence and power this way; and the effects which followed upon this earthquake, show it to be a supernatural one:<\/p>\n so that the foundations of the prison were shaken<\/strong>; not the roof and walls only, as is common in earthquakes, but the very foundation also; and yet the edifice was not thrown down, as is usual when the foundation is shaken:<\/p>\n and immediately all the doors were opened<\/strong>; both of the outer and inner prisons, which is another unusual effect of earthquakes:<\/p>\n and everyone’s bands were loosed<\/strong>; not only the bands of Paul and Silas, but of the rest of the prisoners; though the Arabic version reads, “all the fetters and bands of both were loosed”, referring it only to Paul and Silas; this circumstance shows also, that the earthquake was miraculous, for when was it ever known that such an effect ever followed one?<\/p>\n Earthquake <\/B> (<\/SPAN><\/span>). Old word from <\/SPAN><\/span>, to shake. Luke regarded it as an answer to prayer as in 4:31<\/span>. He and Timothy were not in prison.<\/P> So that the foundations of the prison house were shaken <\/B> ( <\/SPAN><\/span>). Regular construction of the first aorist passive infinitive and the accusative of general reference with <\/SPAN><\/span> for actual result just like the indicative. This old word for prison house already in Matt 11:2<\/span>; Acts 5:21<\/span>; Acts 5:23<\/span> which see. <\/SPAN><\/span> is neuter plural of the adjective <\/SPAN><\/span>, from <\/SPAN><\/span> (thing laid down from <\/SPAN><\/span>). So already in Luke 6:48<\/span>; Luke 14:29<\/span>. If the prison was excavated from rocks in the hillside, as was often the case, the earthquake would easily have slipped the bars of the doors loose and the chains would have fallen out of the walls.<\/P> Were opened <\/B> (<\/SPAN><\/span>). First aorist passive indicative of <\/SPAN><\/span> (or –<\/SPAN><\/span>) with triple augment (, , <\/SPAN><\/span>), while there is no augment in <\/SPAN><\/span> (first aorist passive indicative of <\/SPAN><\/span>, were loosed), old verb, but in the N.T. only here and Acts 27:40<\/span>; Eph 6:9<\/span>; Heb 13:5<\/span>. <\/P> <\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n 1) “And suddenly there was a great earthquake,”<\/strong> (aphno de seismoa egeneto) “Then (about that time, at midnight) suddenly there came an earthquake,” one of high register vibration on the Richter scale, of the earth’s tremor in Philippi. It no doubt came in answer to their prayers, for both their benefit (of all in prison there), and for our lesson, as we read and interpret it. There is a prayer-hearing and delivering God, Dan 3:16-17<\/span>; Dan 6:19<\/span>; Dan 6:23<\/span>; Act 4:1-3<\/span>; Act 4:29-31<\/span>; Act 5:17-29<\/span>.<\/p>\n 2) “So that the foundations of the prison were shaken:”<\/strong> (hoste saleuthenai ta themelia tou Desmoteriou) “So trembling and strong in nature that it caused to be shaken, moved out of place, the theme-structure, or whole foundation and supporting structure of the jail,” including the solitary confinement inner cell where Paul and Silas were held, fixed in stocks, were shaken, came apart, were loosed.<\/p>\n 3) “And immediately all the doors were opened,”<\/strong> (enechthesan de parachrema hai thumai pasai) “And all the doors of the prison were suddenly opened,” by the power of Him who sends the earthquakes and controls His universe, as illustrated, Act 4:31<\/span>; Act 5:19<\/span>; Act 12:7<\/span>; Act 12:10<\/span>. God overrules all wicked designs against His children for their eternal good and His glory, according to His omniscience, Rom 8:28<\/span>; Psa 34:7<\/span>; Psa 34:12-19<\/span>.<\/p>\n 4) “And every one’s bands were loosed,”<\/strong> (kai panton ta desma anethe) “And the bonds, bands, or chains of everyone, in both the inner and outer prison cells were loosed, broken, let loose,” so that the prisoners were no longer restrained by them. Tho all the prisoners were loosed from their restraints and all the prison doors were opened (ajar), by terror of the supernatural power that had intervened, they did not attempt to escape. In this time of imprisonment and upheaval Paul and Silas had learned in whatever state they were “therewith to be content,” Php_4:11; Heb 13:5<\/span>.<\/p>\n − <\/p>\n 26. There was an earthquake. The Lord, in showing this visible sign, meant chiefly to provide for his servants, that they might more manifestly know that they prayers were heard; yet he had respect also of the rest. He could have loosed the fetters of Paul and Silas without an earthquake, and also have opened the gates. But that addition served not a little to confirm them, seeing that the Lord, for their sakes, did shake both the air and also the earth. Again, it was requisite that the keeper of the prison and the rest should feel the presence of God, lest they should think that the miracle came by chance. Neither is it to be doubted, but that the Lord did then show a token of his power, which should be profitable for all ages; so that the faithful may fully assure themselves that he will be nigh unto them so often as they are to enter − (210) combats and dangers for the defense of the gospel. Nevertheless, he doth neither always keep the same course, to testify his presence by manifest signs; neither is it lawful for us to prescribe him a law. For he did help his by manifest miracles then for this cause, that we may be content with his hidden grace at this day; concerning which matter we have spoken more upon the second chapter. − <\/p>\n (210) − <\/p>\n “<\/p>\n Subeunda,” undergo. <\/p>\n (26) And suddenly there was a great earth quake.<\/strong>Both the region and the time were, it will be remembered, conspicuous for convulsions of this kind. Cities in Asia, such as Sardis, Apamea and Laodicea, and in Campania, suffered severely under Tiberius. (See Note on Mat. 24:7<\/span>.) St. Luke apparently reads the fact not as in itself miraculous, but as leading to a display of supernatural calmness and courage on the part of the Apostles, and so to the conversion of the gaoler.<\/p>\n Every ones bands were loosed.<\/strong>This seems, at first, beyond the range of the usual effects of an earthquake, but the chains of the prisoners were fastened, we must remember, to rings or staples in the wall, and the effect of a great shock would be to loosen the stones and so make it easy to escape. The fact that the foundations of the prison were shaken agrees with what has been said above (Note on Act. 16:24<\/span>), as to the dungeon into which the prisoners had been thrust.<\/p>\n 26<\/strong>. <\/strong> And suddenly<\/strong> What sense, says the Rationalist, in a miracle here where it accomplishes nothing which might not have been attained without one? We reply, with Baumgarten, that the miracle was a true, illustrious, and necessary “Divine Sign,” confirming the apostles in the reality of the divine invitation, from the man of Macedonia, of Christianity into Europe. And Baumgarten also plausibly shows that this whole scene was a symbol and a shadow of the future history of Christianity in Europe. Philippi, as a colonia, <\/em> is an image, ambitiously so, of the Roman pagan power. She opens the first Gentile persecution against the Church, emblem of the pagan persecution for four centuries. For three centuries the martyred Church sings her songs of triumph in the midnight, the bloodshed, and the stocks. Yet the very foundations of that inner structure are shaken, and by the very majesty of the secular power is the Church at last enfranchised.<\/p>\n A great earthquake<\/strong> The voice of God answers to the voice of man; the earthquake responds to the hymn. The was so much an earthquake <\/em> as a prison-quake. <\/em> It was not from below, <\/em> but from above, <\/em> as truly as the pentecostal house-shaking. It was not, therefore, a mere indiscriminate jar and crash, but a distinct and specific act of the divine volition by which the foundations of the prison were shaken, <\/em> the prison doors were flung open, <\/em> and the fetters all sprung, while the power-bound limbs of the prisoners were unable to escape. Doubtless the city and the magistrates heard and were awed by the concussion; for even the ancient pagan recognised in the earthquake the movement of God. The solemn echoes of the apostles’ preaching had for many days been resounding through the city, convictions and misgivings had disturbed the public heart, and it may be saintly supposed that this immediately following sign <\/em> should dismay the consciences of the guilty inhabitants and magistrates.<\/p>\n 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Ver. 26. There was a great earthquake<\/strong> ] See the great power of prayer. It shaketh heaven and earth, Luther saith; there is a kind of omnipotence in it. <\/p>\n 26. <\/strong> <\/strong> ] i.e. of all the prisoners<\/em> in the prison: see below ( Act 16:28 ), . Doubtless there were gracious purposes in this for those prisoners, who before were listening to the praises of Paul and Silas; and the very form of the narrative, mentioning this listening, shews subsequent communication<\/em> between some one of these and the narrator.<\/p>\n Their chains were loosed, not by the earthquake, but by miraculous interference over and above it. It is some satisfaction to find, that neither Meyer, De Wette, nor Kuinoel have attempted to rationalize this wonderful example of the triumph of prayer. See some excellent remarks on Baur’s attempt to do so, in Neander, Pfl. u. L. p. 302, note 3.<\/p>\n Act 16:26<\/span> . , see on Act 2:2<\/span> . , cf.<\/em> Act 4:31<\/span> , where the divine nearness and presence were manifested in a similar manner; the neighbourhood and the period were conspicuous for such convulsions of nature, cf.<\/em> Plumptre on Mat 24:7<\/span> , and Ramsay, St. Paul<\/em> , p. 221. , see critical notes. : any one who has seen a Turkish prison, says Prof. Ramsay, will not wonder at this; “each door was merely closed by a bar, and the earthquake, as it passed along the ground, forced the door-posts apart from each other, so that the bar slipped from its hold, and the door swung open,” and see further description on same page. , cf.<\/em> Act 27:40<\/span> , nowhere else in N.T. in same sense; in LXX we have the same collocation of words in Mal 4:2<\/span> . See also for the phrase, Plut., Alex.<\/em> , 73; see Winer-Schmiedel, p. 101. If we ask, Why did not the prisoners escape? the answer is that a semi-Oriental mob would be panic-stricken by the earthquake, and there is nothing strange in the fact that they made no dash for safety; moreover, the opportunity must have been very quickly lost, for the jailor was not only roused himself, but evidently called at once to the guard for lights; see Ramsay’s description, u. s.<\/em> , and the comments of Blass, in loco<\/em> , and Felten, note, p. 318, to the same effect as Ramsay, that the prisoners were panic-stricken, and had no time to collect their thoughts for flight.<\/p>\n suddenly. Greek. aphno. See note on Act 2:2. <\/p>\n earthquake. Greek. seismos. See note on Mat 8:24. <\/p>\n prison. Greek. desmoterion. See note on Act 5:21. Not the word phulake which occurs in verses: Act 16:23, Act 16:24, Act 16:27, Act 23:37, Act 23:40. <\/p>\n shaken. Greek. saleuo. See Act 4:31. <\/p>\n loosed. Greek. aniemi. Only here, Act 27:40. Eph 6:9. Heb 13:5. <\/p>\n 26. ] i.e. of all the prisoners in the prison: see below (Act 16:28), . Doubtless there were gracious purposes in this for those prisoners, who before were listening to the praises of Paul and Silas; and the very form of the narrative, mentioning this listening, shews subsequent communication between some one of these and the narrator.<\/p>\n Their chains were loosed, not by the earthquake, but by miraculous interference over and above it. It is some satisfaction to find, that neither Meyer, De Wette, nor Kuinoel have attempted to rationalize this wonderful example of the triumph of prayer. See some excellent remarks on Baurs attempt to do so, in Neander, Pfl. u. L. p. 302, note 3.<\/p>\n Act 16:26. , of all) even of the prisoners, in whose minds a great change (conversion) ensued.<\/p>\n suddenly: Act 4:31, Act 5:19, Act 12:7, Act 12:10, Mat 28:2, Rev 6:12, Rev 11:13 <\/p>\n and every: Psa 79:11, Psa 102:20, Psa 146:7, Isa 42:7, Isa 61:1, Zec 9:11, Zec 9:12 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 1Ki 13:28 – the lion had 2Ch 7:1 – when Solomon Job 37:1 – General Psa 18:7 – earth Psa 107:14 – brake Eze 37:7 – there Act 2:2 – suddenly Act 26:22 – obtained Heb 1:14 – minister Rev 8:5 – an<\/p>\n 6<\/p>\n Act 16:26. The power that loosened the doors and bands was the same that released Peter in chapter 12:7-10. With God one miracle is as easy as another.<\/p>\n Act 16:26. And suddenly there was a great earthquake. Vain attempts have been made (for instance, by Baur and Zeller) to explain away the miraculous aspect of this event. But the simple words of the narrator can only be understood as an account of a miraculous interference on the part of the King ruling in heaven in behalf of His persecuted servants. The earthquake never loosed the prisoners chains or opened those close-barred and chain-protected doorsthe Divine power which commanded the earthquake loosed the chains and opened the barred-up doors.<\/p>\n 26. The song of the apostles was a strange sound to the other prisoners, but one most welcome to heaven; and God, who appeared almost to have forsaken his servants, came to their relief in a manner peculiar to himself, yet most surprising to all within the prison. (26) “And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bonds were loosed.” The prisoners were all awake when this occurred, having been awakened by the singing, and must instinctively have connected the phenomenon with those midnight singers. <\/p>\n And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed. 26. 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II. <\/strong>He tears asunder the fetters of sin, when bound souls sigh after Him (the jailer).<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>He makes a path for His word and kingdom even when the world puts fetters on them. The Word of God is not bound.<\/p>\n
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