Confirming the Souls of the Disciples

 

Act 14:22Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

 

Confirming

indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogenEstablish or strengthen as with new evidence or factsStrengthen or make more firmSupport a person for a position

 

Exhort

EXHORT', v.t. egzhort'. [L. exhortor; ex and hortor, to encourage, to embolden, to cheer, to advise. The primary sense seems to be to excite or to give strength, spirit or courage.]

 

1. To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments to a good deed or to any laudable conduct or course of action.

 

I exhort you to be of good cheer. Acts 27.

 

Young men also exhort to be sober minded.

 

Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters. Titus 2.

 

2. To advise; to warn; to caution.

 

3. To incite or stimulate to exertion.

 

EXHORT', v.i. To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.