Chapter 11:
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Acts 11
Verse 4. Peter laid all things before them - So he did not take it ill to be
questioned, nor desire to be treated as infallible. And he answers
the more mildly because it related to a point which he had not
readily believed himself.
Verse
5. Being in a trance - Which suspends the use of the outward
senses.
Verse
14. Saved - With the full Christian salvation, in this world and the
world to come.
Verse
17. To us, when we believed - The sense is, because we believed,
not because we were circumcised, was the Holy Ghost given to
us. What was I - A mere instrument in God's hand. They had
inquired only concerning his eating with the Gentiles. He satisfies
them likewise concerning his baptizing them, and shows that he
had done right in going to Cornelius, not only by the command of
God, but also by the event, the descent of the Holy Ghost. And
who are we that we should withstand God? Particularly by laying
down rules of Christian communion which exclude any whom he
has admitted into the Church of the first born, from worshipping
God together. O that all Church governors would consider how
bold an usurpation this is on the authority of the supreme Lord of
the Church! O that the sin of thus withstanding God may not be
laid to the charge of those, who perhaps with a good intention, but
in an over fondness for their own forms, have done it, and are
continually doing it.
Verse
18. They glorified God - Being thoroughly satisfied. Repentance
unto life - True repentance is a change from spiritual death to
spiritual life, and leads to life everlasting.
Verse
19. They who had been dispersed - St. Luke here resumes the
thread of his narration, in the very words wherewith he broke it
off, chap. viii, 6. As far as Phenicia to the north, Cyprus to the
west, and Antioch to the east.
Verse
20. Some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene - Who were
more accustomed to converse with the Gentiles. Who coming into
Antioch - Then the capital of Syria, and, next to Rome and
Alexandria, the most considerable city of the empire. Spake to the
Greeks - As the Greeks were the most celebrated of the Gentile
nations near Judea, the Jews called all the Gentiles by that name.
Here we have the first account of the preaching the Gospel to the
idolatrous Gentiles. All those to whom it had been preached
before, did at least worship one God, the God of Israel.
Verse
21. And the hand of the Lord - That is, the power of his Spirit.
Verse
26. And the disciples were first called Christians at Antioch -
Here it was that they first received this standing appellation. They
were before termed Nazarenes and Galileans.
Verse
28. Agabus rising up - In the congregation. All the world - The
word frequently signifies all the Roman empire. And so it is
doubtless to be taken here.
Verse
29. Then - Understanding the distress they would otherwise be in
on that account, the disciples determined to send relief to the
brethren in Judea - Who herein received a manifest proof of the
reality of their conversion.
Verse
30. Sending it to the elders - Who gave it to the deacons, to be
distributed by them, as every one had need.
Chapter 11:
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| Johnson
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| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| Wesley
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