Albert Barnes on Acts 16:14
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Acts16:14
A seller of purple. Purple was a most valuable colour, obtained usually from shell-fish. It was chiefly worn by princes, and by the rich; and the traffic in it might be very profitable.
The city of Thyatira. This was a city of Lydia, in Asia Minor, now called Ak-hisar. The art of dying was particularly cultivated, as appears from an inscription found there. (See Kuinel.)
Which worshipped God. A religious woman; a proselyte. Acts 13:16
Whose heart the Lord opened. Lk 24:45.
(a) "the Lord opened" Lk 24:45
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