Acts 20:25

Kingdom. See on Acts 1:1; Matt. 4:17. This was the kingdom on which centered Paul’s hopes, and which at great personal danger to himself, he proclaimed in the face of the absolutism of the Roman emperors.

Of God. Important textual evidence (cf. p. 10) may be cited for the omission of this phrase.

See my face no more. Paul believes, for reasons he does not here reveal, that these elders from Ephesus, and doubtless the churches of Miletus and Ephesus, will never see him again. This could have been because of the dangers he knew awaited him (Acts 20:22, 23; Rom. 15:30, 31), and also because of his firm intention to visit Rome and Spain (Acts 19:21; Rom. 15:23-28). It is probable, however, that Paul did return to Macedonia and Asia, though perhaps not to Miletus or Ephesus, between his first and second imprisonments in Rome (Phil. 1:25-27; Philemon 22). But of this, Paul had at the moment no information from the Spirit of God.