Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Scarce (moliv). Adverb in same sense as old mogiv, from molov, toil.
Restrained (katepausan). Effective first aorist active indicative of katapauw, old verb in causative sense to make abstain from.
From doing sacrifice unto them (tou mh quein autoiv). Ablative case of the articular infinitive with redundant negative after katepausan, regular Greek idiom (Robertson, Grammar, pp. 1094, 1171). It had been a harrowing and well-nigh a horrible ordeal, but finally Paul had won. If only nobody else had interposed!
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 14:18:
John 9:38
Acts 10:47
Acts 14:8
Acts 27:7
Romans 5:7
2 Corinthians 11:25
2 Timothy 3:11
1 Peter 4:18
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