Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:
9. And the Lord said. Though the fruit of Paul’s doctrine (in that he gained some daily to Christ) might have encouraged him to go forward, yet is the heavenly oracle added for his farther confirmation. Whence we gather that there were great combats set before him, and that he was sore tossed divers ways. For the Lord did never, without cause, “Temere,” at random.
When the Jews shut him out, Paul simply moved next door to Justus's house and kept preaching, no shame in it, for God's work has always found room in private homes. Even in breaking with them, Paul positioned himself where they could still reach him if they would hear.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 18:7-11
Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision,.... On a certain night as he was asleep, the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to him in a dream, and spake after this manner to him: be not afraid; it is very likely that after the baptism of Crispus and his family, and of many of the Corinthians, that both the Jews and the...