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Ask a Questionbrought before, &c.--The book of Acts verifies all this.
this did not Abraham--In so doing ye act in direct opposition to him.
they knew that it was he which sat for alms, &c.--(Compare Joh9:8).
Whether it be right...to hearken to you more than...God, judge ye.
found no cause of death--though they sought it (Mt 26:59, 60).
commanded him to be bound with two chains--(See on Ac 12:6).
a citizen of no mean city--(See on Ac 16:37).
they that were with me--(See on Ac 9:7, &c.)
chief captain also was afraid, &c.--See on Ac 16:38.
the hearing of Augustus--the imperial title first conferred by the Roman Senate on Octavius.
(See on Ac 9:1, &c.; and compare Ac 22:4, &c.)
shook off the beast and felt no harm--See Mr 16:18.
Full spiritual blessings satisfy his desires, and acts of praise fill his thoughts and time.
killed the Prince of life--Glorious paradox, but how piercing to the conscience of the auditors.
their rulers, &c.--This was a regular meeting of the Sanhedrim (see on Mt 2:4).
send to Joppa...for one Simon, &c.--(See on Ac 9:11).
came to hearken--not to open; for neither was it a time nor an hour of night for that, but to listen who was there.
Give--or, "ascribe" (Ps 29:1) due honor to Him, by acts of appointed and solemn worship in His house.
Let this...reward--or, "wages," pay for labor, the fruit of the enemy's wickedness. from the Lord--as His judicial act.
These are modes of expressing acts of worship (compare Ps 116:4; Ps 50:14; Jon 2:9).
healed--kept healing, denoting successive acts of mercy till it went over "all" that needed. There is something unusually grand and pictorial in this touch of description.
falling headlong, &c.--This information supplements, but by no means contradicts, what is said in Mt 27:5.
all the time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us--in the close intimacies of a three years' public life.
was numbered--"voted in" by general suffrage. with the eleven apostles--completing the broken Twelve.
all the people saw him, &c.--as they assembled at the hour of public prayer, in the temple courts; so that the miracle had the utmost publicity.
foretold of these days--of Messiah; all pointing to "the time of reformation" (Heb 9:10), though with more or less distinctness.
thy hand and thy counsel determined...to be done--that is, "Thy counsel" determined to be done by "Thy hand."
Stephen, &c.--As this and the following names are all Greek, it is likely they were all of the "Grecian" class, which would effectually restore mutual confidence.
not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake--What he said, and the power with which he spake it, were alike resistless.
avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian--going farther in the heat of his indignation than he probably intended.