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And upon a set day Herod...made an oration unto them--to the Tyrians and Sidonians especially.
forty years suffered he their manners--rather, according to what appears the true reading, "cherished he them" (as a nurse the infant in her bosom).
the apostles and elders came together to consider of this--but in presence, as would seem, of the people (Ac 15:12, 22, 23).
Barnabas determined to take with them John...Mark--his nephew (Col 4:10).
And when Paul had laid his hands upon them...they spake with tongues, &c.--See on Ac 10:44,45.
seven sons of...Sceva...chief of the priests--head, possibly, of one of the twenty-four courts.
we have four men--Christian Jews, no doubt. which have a vow--perhaps kept ready on purpose.
tidings came--literally, "went up," that is, to the fortress of Antonia, where the commandant resided. See on Ac 21:32. This part of the narrative is particularly graphic.
Art not thou that Egyptian, &c.--The form of the question implies that the answer is to be in the negative, and is matter of some surprise: "Thou art not then?" &c.
the high priest--still alive. doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders--the whole Sanhedrim.
bound themselves under a curse...that they would neither eat ...fill they had killed Paul--Compare 2Sa 3:35; 1Sa 14:24.
brought him...to Antipatris--nearly forty miles from Jerusalem, on the way to Caesarea; so named by Herod in honor of his father, Antipater.
Festus...after three days...ascended...to Jerusalem--to make himself acquainted with the great central city of his government without delay.
he stood between the living and the dead--The plague seems to have begun in the extremities of the camp. Aaron, in this remarkable act, was a type of Christ.
Also in Horeb--rather, "even in Horeb," where it might have been expected they would have acted otherwise.
Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam ..., are they not written in the book of the chronicles?--not the book so called and comprehended in the sacred canon, but the national archives of Judah.
the daughters, &c.--the small towns, or the people, with the chief city, or rulers of the Church. judgments--decisions and acts of right government.
The blessing is limited to those whose principles and acts are right. How "blessed" Israel would be now, if he had "observed God's statutes" (Ps 105:45).
whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved--This points to the permanent establishment of the economy of salvation, which followed on the breaking up of the Jewish state.
buried her by her husband--The later Jews buried before sunset of the day of death.
all the words of this life--beautiful expression for that Life in the Risen One which was the burden of their preaching!
in every house--in private. (See on Ac 2:46). ceased not to preach Jesus Christ--that is, Jesus (to be the) Christ.
great joy in that city--over the change wrought on it by the Gospel, as well as the cures which attested its divine character.
the apostles...sent Peter and John--showing that they regarded Peter as no more than their own equal.
in the gall of bitterness and...bond of iniquity--expressing both the awfulness of his condition and the captivity to it in which he was held.
all manner of four-footed beasts, &c.--that is, the clean and the unclean (ceremonially) all mixed together.
Four days ago--the messengers being despatched on the first; on the second reaching Joppa (Ac 10:9); starting for Caesarea on the third; and on the fourth arriving.
I have found David, &c.--This quotation is the substance of Ps89:20; 1Sa 13:14; and perhaps also of Ps 78:70-72.