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Acts 18:9

The Pulpit Commentary on Acts 18:9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And the Lord said unto for then spake the Lord to, A.V. A vision ( ὅραμα); literally, a thing seen, but always used of a wonderful "sight:" of the Transfiguration, of the burning bush.

But more commonly of a "vision," as in , ; , , ; ; ; . So in the LXX. (, etc.). St. Paul received a similar gracious token of the Lord's watchful care of him soon after his conversion ().

He tells us that then he was in an "ecstasy," or trance. The ἔκστασις describes the mental condition of the person who sees an ὅραμαα.

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