And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.
Paul had wintered at Antioch, but his active spirit would not rest idle long. He proposed to Barnabas that they take a second campaign among the Gentiles, not to begin new work but to review their old fields. Two are better than one, and Paul needed his friend's help to strengthen the young converts against Satan's kingdom.
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Commenting on Acts 15:36-41
And he went through Syria and Cilicia,.... Antioch was the metropolis of the former, and Tarsus, the apostle's native place, was in the latter; and in both these countries he had been before, and had been the instrument of converting many souls, and of planting churches, which he now visited, as he proposed to Barnabas to do: for it follows, confirming the churches; in the...
Verse 40. Being recommended. Being commended by prayer to God. . (a) "recommended by the"