Chapter 14:
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Acts 14
Verse 1. They so spake - Persecution having increased their strength.
Verse
9. He had faith to be healed - He felt the power of God in his soul;
and thence knew it was sufficient to heal his body also.
Verse
11. The gods are come down - Which the heathens supposed they
frequently did; Jupiter especially. But how amazingly does the
prince of darkness blind the minds of them that believe not! The
Jews would not own Christ's Godhead, though they saw him work
numberless miracles. On the other hand, the heathens seeing mere
men work one miracle, were for deifying them immediately.
Verse
13. The priest of Jupiter - Whose temple and image were just
without the gate of the city, brought garlands - To put on the
victims, and bulls - The usual offerings to Jupiter.
Verse
14. They sprang in among the people, crying out - As in a fire, or
other sudden and great danger.
Verse
15. To turn from these vanities - From worshipping any but the
true God. He does not deign to call them gods; unto the living
God - Not like these dead idols; who made the heaven and the
earth, the sea - Each of which they supposed to have its own gods.
Verse
16. Who in times past - He prevents their objection, "But if these
things are so, we should have heard the in from our fathers."
Suffered - An awful judgment, all nations - The multitude of them
that err does not turn error into truth, to walk in their own ways -
The idolatries which they had chosen.
Verse
17. He left not himself without witness - For the heathens had
always from God himself a testimony both of his existence and of
his providence; in that he did good - Even by punishments he
testifies of himself; but more peculiarly by benefits; giving rain -
By which air, earth, and sea, are, as it were, all joined together;
from heaven - The seat of God; to which St. Paul probably
pointed while he spoke, filling the body with food, the soul with
gladness.
Verse
19. Who persuaded the multitude - Moved with equal ease either
to adore or murder him.
Verse
20. But as the disciples stood round - Probably after sunset. The
enraged multitude would scarce have suffered it in the day time:
he rose and went into the city - That he should be able to do this,
just after he had been left for dead, was a miracle little less than a
resurrection from the dead. Especially considering the manner
wherein the Jewish malefactors were stoned. The witnesses first
threw as large a stone as they could lift, with all possible violence
upon his head, which alone was sufficient to dash the skull in
pieces. All the people then joined, as long as any motion or token
of life remained.
Verse
23. When they had ordained them presbyters in every Church -
Out of those who were themselves but newly converted. So soon
can God enable even a babe in Christ to build up others in the
common faith: they commended them to the Lord - An expression
implying faith in Christ, as well as love to the brethren.
Verse
25. Perga and Attalia were cities of Pamphylia.
Verse
26. Recommended to the grace - Or favour, of God, for the work
which they had fulfilled - This shows the nature and design of that
laying on of hands, which was mentioned chap. xiii, 3.
Chapter 14:
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| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
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| Matthew Henry Concise
| McGarvey Pendleton
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
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