And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
God wrought so effectually in Lydia that she received Christ's faith sincerely before Paul would baptize her. That she consecrated her whole household to God shows the godly zeal of one fit to rule in Christ's name. Every head of a house must order it as an image of the Church, driving out superstition and keeping all under the fear of the Lord.
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The Spirit forbade preaching in Asia for good reason: other hands were at work there, the people were not yet prepared, or Christ had other work for Paul, preaching the gospel to Romans, whom the Jews hated most. This westward turn of the light shows where the gospel would flow in ages to come.
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Commenting on Acts 16:6-15
She was baptized in water with her household, servants who attended her, all becoming believers together. Her household being called brethren confirms they were grown believers, not infants. The pleaders for infant baptism find no proof here: nothing shows she had children or that her servants were anything but adult converts.
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