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The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 1
Arthur Charles Hervey [1808-1894] · 411,060 words · 462 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 1 — Section 1
THE PULPIT COMMENTARY, EDl'l'IW BY 'l'HK VERY HEY. H. D. M. SPENCE, D.D., DMAN 01-· GLOt.:C.:!!:STER; A:SIJ BY 'l'IIK REY. JOSEPH S. EXELL, M.A WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY THE VERY REV. F. W. FARRAR, D.D., F.R.S., DEAN OF CANTERBlTRY. RIGHT REV. H. COTTERILL, D.D., F.R.S.E. VERY REV. PRINCIPAL J. TULLOCH, D.D. R…
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with hie general interest in the progress of the goRpel among the nationa of the en.rth; while, having already written a history of the life and death of Jesus, in which hie special interest in the Gentiles is very apparent (Luke ii. 82 ; xiii. 29 ; xiv. 23 ; xv. 11 ; xx. 16), he would, as a matter of course, conneot h…
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his journey into Spofo (if, indeed, he went to Spa.in) 1 a.nd his second triRJ and martyrdom, had not taken place when St. Luke finished his history, because it is utterly inconceivable that, if they he.cl, he shonld not have mentioned them. But it is highly probable that incidents connected with St. Pan.I's first tria…
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§ 5. PLACE m THE CANOJI Eusebins places in the forefront of his list of books generally aclmowledged as portions of Holy Scripture (/Jµ.oAoyovµ.Eva, 8Euu ypa<f,a[), the four Gospels and "the Book of the Acts of the Apostles ( ~ rwv 7rpa.~Ewv rwv 'A7rouroAwv ypa<f,~) ; " and again he says, "Luke has left us a proof of …
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§ 6. MODERN C&ITICISll, An Introduction to the Acte would hardly be complete without a brief reference to the viewe of modern criticiem. It is observable, then, that a certain number of critice, who Beem to think that the main function of criticism is to disregard all external evidence, and all internal evidence also …
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I 7. LITERATURl!I OF THIil AoTs o:r THE APOSTLIIB. To those who desire to stndy serionely this charming and invaluable history, it may be useful to indicate a few books which will assist them to do so. PoJey'e ' Hom, Paulinm ' still holds its ground ae an original argu. ment, ingeniously worked ont, and capable of con…
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king" as being in possession of Damo.sCllB at the t.ime of St. Paul's escape (2 Cor. xi. 32), which is thought to indicate the beginning of the reign oi' Caligula., A..D. 87; the famine in the reign of Clandiue Cresa.r (eh. xi. 28), who began to reign A..D. 41; the proconsnlate of Sergins Paulus (eh. xiii. 7), who is q…
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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. EXPOSITION. Jesus did and taught from first to last." To CHAPTER L do and to teach. So the disciples on the Ver. 1.-I made for ha'IJe I made, A.V.: way to Emma.us speak of J csus as "a. Prophet wncerninlJ for of, A.V.; to teach for teach, mighty in deed ::md word" (Luke xxiv. 18). A.V. The for…
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(see oh. vl. 8). "Jesus returned In the who walketh npon the winga of the wind." power of the Spirit" (Luke iv. H ; see It m~y be remarked thst the ~hove is by far too xxiv. ~!J); "Goel onnlnted Jesus of the lulleet account we hsve ol the ascension Nnznrcth with the Holy Ghost ond with of our Lord. St. Luke o.ppesn to …
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J01!8phua (' Jud. Aut.,' vit. 9, 2; ece too xx. R.V., makce Peter and the other Rpostlea 8, G), it el"('ms probnble that in Luke. xix. the nominlliive oose to I.he verb "went up," 29: xxi. 27, we ought to rend, with Lnrh- instcnd of, ne in the A.V., to "nbode." In mllnn and Tischendorf (ere llleyer on Luke regnrd to th…
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(Gal. i. l!J); " the _brethren of th~ L?rd "are him by lot. The language is taken from l!Ja mentioned 1 Cor. u:. 5; and agam m John O_lcl Testament (see e.g. Josh. xviii. 10, 11; vii. 3, 6, 10, " the brethren of J eeus" are Jax. 1, 10, etc.). Those who received such a. ■ poken of. Thie is not the place to enter portion…
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25. So St.. Paul Mlle himeeH S1d1rovo, (• of the name Bnrse.be.s, or Be.raabbas, la minister) in Eph. iii. 7; Col. i. 23, 25, eto. unknown; it scoms to bo ll patronymio (aon Bo the presbyters of the Church are calle<l ofSe.be.@,orSabbe.s), like Dnr-Tholomow, Bo.r• bishops (oh. xx. 17, 28; l Tim. i. l, 2. eto.). Jone…
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his 11ttc11tlon 11a ho journeyed-the rising knoll, the conspicuous wood, the sheet of water, the open plain. But as he looks he spies out other obj~cts which he had not noticed before-an ivy-m11ntled towP-r, e. dwelling-house, a village, a clump of trees which e.dd richness nnd diversity to the aceno ; and so he adds t…
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eocioty, of which the gospel l\lone was the first seed I Now turn to the beginnings of the gospel as here exhibited. One upper chl\mber at JeruS1Llem, a city in the 11\Bt de.ye of its trouhled existence, contained tho whole number of those who acknowledged Christ as their Miu;ter. Measured by any worldly standard, e…
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by the price of treachery. But he had forgotten his manhood. He had forgotten that man has a conRcience, and that a guilty conscience is like the raging sea, which cannot bo stillml. He had shut his eyes to everything but the reward he coveted. But now the storm is rising. Remorse begins her terrible work. Vain regr…
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(4) Incidental proofs of heavenly origin &nd &lmighty power. 2. Teaching. He begnn "both to do a,nd t«ich" (ver. 1). 'l'be teaching of Obrist covered all the ground on which we most urgently need enlightenment. He taught us all tbl\t we want to kno1v concerning (1) the nature and disposition of God, inclnding hie at…
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glorious inherHo.nce for which he ho.d pa.id so costly e. price. But the time or hia exolte.tion was the hour of his disciples' sorrow. By his departure they lost sight of iheir dcnrnst Friend, their wise Counsellor, their great 'f, acher, their honoured Lord. Bo must it bo with us. The upright Christian statesman p…
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then C!l.relcssnees and looseness of action ; then occasional transgression; then habitual vice; and then the miserable end. Similarly the passage from godliness to absorbing worldliness is through weakening of a sense of obligation; decline of sacred joy; relaxa- tion of holy habits; growing ab!l.ndonment of devoti…
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So is _H with nll. c?ming good. We ~now somothing of that to be expected from past ex per1onces of D1v1_ne_grnce; but the h_nlf, has not been told us." Th_e. future is irleal, nnd novor exactly 1m1tntos tho pnst; while 1t rests upon the past and ehc1ts its meanino-. Obey, trust, wait: this is o. grnnd lesson of the Chr…
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the imn.ge of the vanished Jesus in the world of pious thought. He ia the indefinable link between the world of sense and the supcrsensual. We cannot n.nalyze the truth, We see it, we feel it, by the spiritual a,sthesis; and this is better than all definition. m. 'l'HE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ANGELS' WORDS. We gaze into…
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Thie might run into superstition; as when men in the Middle Agee turned over Virgil's pn"es for a clue to decision in cRses of perplexity. But in the case of the apostles there is ~o reason to believe (but. the contrary) that their habit, in common with all the devout, of fnlling back on old sayings checked the full an…
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Alpha of the kingdom, and he is the Omega. His doing and his teaching really one ; in mntter and in manner, Divine; the standard for npostlos and nil others ; tho Acts of the Apostles a continuation of the acts of their Master. Ho only began to do n11<l to teach in his ministry; he went on to manifest himself by the…
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rection itsolf, but tho simple fact that Jesue WM alive, No one saw him rise but they saw him after he was risen. They might mistake what occurred at th(l sepulchr~; th~y could make no mistake in talking with a living man, handling him, eating with him, and that for forty days and on many occasions, in one another'~ pr…
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Jewish prcjndicc and thought of "times a.nd seasons," nnd the heavenly, In the Lord Jesus himself. ll. THE rnosPEOT, Separation for a season. Cloud concealing the glory, Promlsr of return. III. 'I'm; FELLowsnrr of the disciples with the Master, The mingling together Ol heaven nnd eArth. The witnesses appointed, that …
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Into hen.van 'l" 1. A~riinst the misuse or signs 11nd appe11rance&. Get at the auhetance of the fo.ct, o.nd wo.ste no time and strength on the mere form. 2. Against pryina into forbi,lden secrets. Indulgence of fancy in religion. Following the track of"senqe beyond its reo.ch. 3. Spiritual depre~sion nnd reaction. Chri…
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Vere. 15-26,-The Church', fir,t corpo,•att action, I. A GLIMPSE INTO PRIMITIVB CHURCH LIFE, showing: 1. Its purity and simplicity, No pomp, no complicated organi- zation, appeal to the body of the Church. 2. Its sepai·ation from the world, " The names" were recorded in some way, and numbered; probably a written reco…
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Ver. 3.-17,e world's suprcmP- question to the front. "Speaking of the things per- taining to the kinadom of God," We bold in our hands, in these words, the key, not of I\ brief section of this chapter and this book alone, but rather of a very long stretch of time, and an immensely important and absorbingly interesting …
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approaching literal detail. Christ spoke of " the things pertaining to " the kingdom or God. Oae inevitably imagines that under this description principlllll wero imparted- possibly enou6h information savouiing of the character of re11elatio11. These would be lighted up and "·armed by the presence of grncious promis…
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the brightest among its treBBures, beyond comparison the brightest, ,Jesus Christ," the Son of the J<'o.thor" and the Saviou1· of tho worl<l, an<l the Holy Spirit, "the promise of tho Fnther," and tho Regenerator and Sanctifier of human hearts. "Thanks be unto Goel for his unspoakablo gift," tho fit refrain of ten t…
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And so, in higher strain, chants the apostle: "Faithrul is ho who hath promised, wlw a?so ,~i(l do it." ~- '[he t!tle offers in I\ fresh form, to the sensitive, impressiblo d1spos1t10n of true d1sc1pleslup, a pathetic suggestion of the nearness and the continuing purpose and_ the watching grace of the Father. "l'is …
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principlo, that thoy were to go forth ln the strength of a Stronger than man, so in this acted chargo, _this ,marv.ol of a demonstrati~n of t~e Spirit, the same root-princip).e is conveyed, be 1t said, vnth " thousandfold 1mpress1veness. Not one a.tom of Christ's work must thoy touch in their own strength, nor begin it…
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confeseed intense f't'Gctical significance, the question of the di~clples was the suggestion of a depsrture to an inopportune subject ln instances of far inferior magnitude how certain it is that we should rem1nk upon the untimeliness of the interruption· that broke in upon some supr<'me crisis of one kind with matt…
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disciples, who, when earth and air vibrate again with the shock and the.clash of dis- cord1rnt thcolo;;ical polemics, still keeps his own band faithful to the memo,·y of hie own commissiou, that they should be "witnesses unto" him throughout all th 8 worldl-B. Vere, 9-11.-Ileavenward gazing recalled to earthward wa…
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and little prepared for the consummat.e event. Again, of the exact methods of Chriet'e departure from his apostles and the women, and others to whom he graciously revealed his presence during the forty days, we are not distinctlr informed in each several case. But in some we are told simply that he "vanished' out of th…
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AND AN APPARENTLY INCONOLUBIVE REASON FOR IT, ON THE PART OF TWO ME,," wno APPEARED IN WIIITE APPAREL." '!'he II two men in white apparel" were neither phantoms, creatures of the bro.in, nor spectres, creatures of the nir and heavens. The expression, no doubt, designates umgels; it is likely enough such as bad once bee…
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"Then returned fhey unto Jerusalem . . . the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren." \Ve have here- I. Tr!E RECORD OF ANOTHER PERIOD OF WAITING, CHARGED WITH THRil.LING EXPECT.A• TJON, It may be heh! that a period of just six weeks had elapsed since the very Aame persons ns are here spoken o_f had passed through a…
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II. A PEnIOD OP' WAITING AND OP' mon EXPECTATION, UNDEP'I!ilED AS TO 1TB DURATION. Tho tonsion of the disciples on the occasion of the Crucifixion and entombment was relieved, and might have been much more relieved for them. They had been not only expressly forewarned of what was to be, but of the time also. And Old Te…
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less gloom of the three days, this has travelled far into the past. It is no wonder. A little time suffices for dawn to drive away the darkness. How differently this present interva.l of ten days 'is passing I So when d1nkncss, storm, and fear arc vanishing, nil is hushed.in peaceful prayer, and the Church "waits" w…
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0llnctly ono of these lcinds. 'l'here are ample and significant indications that tlie ono expression, Jesus rnllcd unto him "whom he would" (Mark iii. 13), and our own willing estimate of his superlative Tmowledge, aro to be balanced with other considera- tions, both such as arise _from disciples' choice and discipl…
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for what ia built upon it. Likely enough his tendencies may have looked this way. He may have knowu a shade too well the use and "the love of money; " but evidence there ia none that he loved money as a miser loves it. Nor did it seem to atick to his fingers as it does to those of an essentially covetous man-not, fo…
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the" all he had loft," together with the other disciples, when he first" followed" Jes,18 However, now he stakes "all" on one cast,---the event too clearly demonstrates it. li~ shows himself not the man to b_oo~ tlisappoi~tment _and loss, especially when riled, as he prob£\bly now felt, by a conv1cl)on of havm~ st~Jfor…
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man's "own place" is determined. And this ie the reBSOn why human judgmente of eelf or of others arc so often wrong, because they are so prono to bo arrcRtod by tho glitter or else the glare of what may be a most minor point, a mere detail, I\ really side issue, insteRd of being of the very web and woof. A man's "ow…
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as it nffected his so-called fellow-disciples, and of necessity most of all as it concerned his own soul. If a man lets nny serious wrong in his earthly affairs drift, it is not Ion" before ho finds it out, for it linds him out, Business rarely indeed drifts ri"'ht of itself. llut wrong never drifts right. Least of al…
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I. THE Dll:'l'OTED ZEAL OF PETER. He ia a born leader. lie had often shown I\ forward zeal. In the .fort of many, many characters lurks l\lso their weakness. Purified from this, the strength becomes apparent again, and the advantage become& real. It ls he who now takes the lead, 11nd says, "It behoves " to fill up the …
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life and influence is concerned, we find it in the holy living of his Church, and the teachings of apostles and ministers. In application, It may be urged that a work so graciously introduad in our Lord's life on earth, o.nd so graciously continued in his present working in his Church, must have its completion some da…
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he 1mffered, all that will. And Riso in the light of our Redeemer's mi:ssion RS the Saviour of the world. He is therein shown to be the perfect Saviour.-R. 'l', Ver. 2.-The Holy Ghost in Ohrist, The statement in this verse is thRt our Lord Bpake, and gave his parting injunctions to his disciples, as one who was "fille…
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Ver. 3.-Benslble proofs of Ohr;st's re3U,rrection. The resurrection of our Lordi~ declared to have been a literal and histori<,o,lfact, of which satisfactory proofs could bf given-such proofs os men are accustomed to accept. Here it is stated that our Lord "showed himself alive;" that he "appeared unto the disciples" …
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given u Divine endowment for the mission of the aposUcs and of the Church. 2. He ie the fulfilment of the assurance that Christ would "come again," to abide ever with his Church. 3. He is Bl"Ttt by the Son. 4. He is the gift of the Father. 5. He is sent by the Father and tlie Son. Allusion may be made to the dispute…
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Further point out how tho Maccabean prinr,es became Messianic modelR, and the idei cheriehed was that Messiah would prove to be a national Hero o.nd Saviour, accomplieh- ing the work permanently which Juilas Maccabeue had only achieved temporarily. Tho merely national idea. of Messiah cannot be based on a full treatmen…
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Vers. 10, 11.-Christ's ccming again. The scene needs sympathetic description. Effort should be made to realize the state of mind of the disciples on thus a second time losing their Master, and this time losing him in so strange and surprising e. manner. It would seem that they bad been prepared for the Ascension by …
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the Son of God ehould be permiUed to weaken our conviction that Christ is now with us. He bae come, he "makes his abode with us." And the present spiritual Christ ie a present eanctifying power. The coming of Christ again to his Church in some sensible form is intended to be a secondary thought; bearing relation to Chr…
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be giTen in detail. The idea that be deluded himself to suppose tha.t his action would bring matters to a crisis, and lead Christ to declare himself and set up his kingdom, eeems hardly tenable. If such was his thought, his money-loving gaze was set on l!ecuring the chief place of trust in the new kingdom. His vice was…
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recognize two senses of Scripture, which may be called (1) the literal Mid hm07'W:ll. and (2) the moral and mystical, For the first we need culture, for the second spfrituai insight and Bympathy. 'l'hon-if we have these fitnesses-to us the Bible seems to be full of ChriBt, because of the truth, he came to declare, a…
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EXPOSITION. apostles, may be demonstrated. For not CHAPTER IL ouly must the aU of ver. 1 refer to the same Ver. I.-Wasnoo,come for VJa1fuily COfl'le, company as was described in the priiceding A. V. ; aU together for with one =rd, A. V. chapter (vers. 15-26), but it is quite clear and 'I'.R. When the da.y of :Penteo…
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tl,oee who hnd It not, it is against the plain no language at all, only thrilling emotional language of the text, whfoh telle us that BOuntls. Renan'e view of the day of Pente- " they began to epeak with other tonguee," cost is u. curious specimen of ntionalietio and that "every man heard them speaking interpretation. …
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thi1 chapter by the later epiritual gift.a RI Ver. 8.-Lnnguage for !o11gue, A.V. Lan- 1een in the Church of Corinth, we oonclude guago (B,a"-•wrcr, us in oh. i. 19). It only that 1ho " tongues" were sometimes" tongues occurs in the Now Testament in tba Acts, of men," for0ign languagee unknown to the and may mean either…
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euch proeolytee In tlio grcnt cnpitnl of the happened ; for it was quite a mistake to henthou worl,I. Sojourners, os in eh. xvii. attribute it to drunkennesR. By the prophet 21, the stranaers sojoumin(J nt Athens. (5,11, not mrb); spoken by God through the Mnny good commcntators-Alforcl, Moyer, prophet. The full phrnHe…
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,n,th of Christianity, l\nd it is l\t their perilhither: for God did eend mo before you rllat Christia.ns allow themselrns to give up to preser\'e lire" (Gen. xiv. 5); nlso Judg. 'l1is urgument at the bidding of the sceptio. xiv. 4; l Kings xii. 15, oto. 1 Delivered up Mighty work& and wonders and signs. ((1<00.-ov,…
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satisfied that it is roally Do vid's. The only to Abraham and the twelve 110ne or manner in which it is quoted by the hvo Jacob (Heb. vii. 4; eh. vii. 8, 9). It is apostles is also very strong evidence tho.t by a title of dignity, signifying the heo.d of the J ewe of tbo.t tlay it wo.e generally nd- a house. It seems t…
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my holiness thrit I "·ill not lie unto Dand" lock. But it is cqulllly olear tl111t be is but 1 Sam. vii. and Ps. lxxxix. should he read one of the aposl Jes; he is not ~et over them, through <'Rrefully ( comp. also 188- l'l'. 8; but acts with them; he iB not their superior, eh. xiii. 23). (For the phrase, "I have bu…
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