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Acts 1
Verse 1. The former treatise - In that important season which reached
from the resurrection of Christ to his ascension, the former treatise
ends, and this begins: this describing the Acts of the Holy Ghost,
(by the apostles,) as that does the acts of Jesus Christ. Of all
things - In a summary manner: which Jesus began to do - until the
day - That is, of all things which Jesus did from the beginning till
that day.
Verse
2. After having given commandment - In the 3rd verse St. Luke
expresses in general terms what Christ said to his apostles during
those forty days. But in the 4th and following verses he declares
what he said on the day of his ascension. He had brought his
former account down to that day; and from that day begins the
Acts of the Apostles.
Verse
3. Being seen by them forty days - That is, many times during that
space. And speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of
God - Which was the sum of all his discourses with them before
his passion also.
Verse
4. Wait for the promise of the Father, which ye have heard from
me - When he was with them a little before, as it is recorded,
Luke xxiv, 49.
Verse
5. Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost - And so are all true
believers to the end of the world. But the extraordinary gifts of the
Holy Ghost also are here promised.
Verse
6. Dost thou at this time - At the time thou now speakest of? not
many days hence? restore the kingdom to Israel? - They still
seemed to dream of an outward, temporal kingdom, in which the
Jews should have dominion over all nations. It seems they came
in a body, having before concerted the design, to ask when this
kingdom would come.
Verse
7. The times or the seasons - Times, in the language of the
Scriptures, denote a longer; seasons, a shorter space. Which the
Father hath put in his own power - To be revealed when and to
whom it pleaseth him.
Verse
8. But ye shall receive power - and shall be witnesses to me - That
is, ye shall be empowered to witness my Gospel, both by your
preaching and suffering.
Verse
12. A Sabbath-day's journey - The Jews generally fix this to two
thousand cubits, which is not a mile.
Verse
13. They went up into the upper room - The upper rooms, so
frequently mentioned in Scripture, were chambers in the highest
part of the house, set apart by the Jews for private prayer. These,
on account of their being so retired and convenient, the apostles
now used for all the offices of religion. Matt. x, 2; Mark iii, 14;
Luke vi, 13.
Verse
14. His brethren - His near kinsmen, who for some time did not
believe; it seems not till near his death.
Verse
15. The number of persons together - Who were together in the
upper room. were a hundred and twenty - But he had undoubtedly
many more in other places; of whom more than five hundred saw
him at once after his resurrection, 1 Cor. xv, 6.
Verse
16. Psalm xli, 9.
Verse
18. This man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity - That
is, a field was purchased with the reward of his iniquity; though
very possibly Judas might design the purchase. And falling down
on his face - It seems the rope broke before, or as he died.
Verse
19. In their own tongue - This expression, That is, the field of
blood, St. Luke seems to have added to the words of St. Peter, for
the use of Theophilus and other readers who did not understand
Hebrew.
Verse
20. His bishopric - That is, his apostleship. Psalm lxix, 25.
Verse
21. All the time that the Lord Jesus was going in and out - That is,
conversing familiarly: over us - as our Master. Psalm cix, 8.
Verse
22. To be a witness with us of his resurrection - And of the
circumstances which preceded and followed it.
Verse
23. And they appointed two - So far the faithful could go by
consulting together, but no further. Therefore here commenced
the proper use of the lot, whereby a matter of importance, which
cannot be determined by any ordinary method, is committed to the
Divine decision.
Verse
25. Fell - By his transgression - Some time before his death: to go
to his own place - That which his crimes had deserved, and which
he had chosen for himself, far from the other apostles, in the
region of death.
Chapter 1:
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| Geneva
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