The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 1 — Section 100

they rendered ubi-dv by t}11$ man, IMI if Peter do.ntly" (John x. 10); "I o.m that Bread had supplied the 'W1'nt of the verbe.l mention of life;" "I am the living Brend ... if by pointing to him. Fasten ye your eyea. any man eat of this bread, he sho.ll live (For the use of li-rrvl(rn•, ~ee note on ver. 4.) for ever; " " I give . . . my flesh for the Ver. 13.-Se,.,.ant for Son, A.V,; before lire of the world;" "Ye will not come the faM for in t.he presence, A.V. ; hnd for unto me that ye might have life;" "'rhey 100,,, A.Y.; reka.•e him for let him go, A.V. that hear ehRll live;" "As the Father The God of Abraham, eto. The oontinuity ho.th life in himself, so ho.th he ~iven to of the N,,w Testament with the Old Testa- the Son to have life in himself; ' " 'l'he ment stands out remnrkably in St. Peter's Son of man be lifted up: tho.t whosoever address. He speaks to the " men of Israel," believeth in him should . , . ho.ve eterno.l and he connects the present miracle with all life;" "The wo.ter tho.t I shall give him thnt God hRd done to their fathers in dnvs shall be in him o. well of water springing gnne by. He docs not seem conscious 'or up iuto everlo.sting life." The word "f'X'li'&• nny break or transition, or of any chn.nge of applied to Christ is found o.lso in eh. v. 31, posture or position. Only o. new incident, and in Heb. ii. 10 ; xii. 2, rendered the long since promised by the prophets, has "Author or Captain of their salvation," "of been added. "He thrusts himself upon the our faith." Whereof we a.re witnesses (see fathers of old, lest he should nppe.ar to be eh. ii. 22, note). The mo.rginol renderina of introducing n new doctrine" (Chrysostom). tllhom is equally literal, o.nd may be defended God . . . bath glorified his Servant Jesus. by reference to oh. i. 8 ; xiii. 31 ; but the Se-rvant is manifestly right (so St. Chrysos- rendering lllhereof is in accordance with the tom). It is the oonstant meaning of ..-a,s in more frequent phrases (eh, v. 32; x. 39, eto.J. the LXX.; son is always vios (see ver. 26; The meaning is practically the so.me. eh. iv. 27, 30). In Matt. xii. 18 the A.V. Ver. 16.-By faith in his Name hath this bas "servant." (For the Old Te,;;tument for his Name through faith in his Name, A.V.: usage, see Isa. xlii. 1; Iii. 13; !iii. 11). the order of the words is changed from Delivered up; .,,.¥,5C:,1ea-r,, different from the that of the A.V., to bring it into accordance f1e5o-rov of eh. ii. 23 (where see note). The with the order of the Greek, but with a word is applied to the actiou of Judas in greo.t loss of force in English; behold for see, delivering up Jeane into the hands of the A.V.; through for by, A.V. Yeo., the faith; chief priests (John xix. 11), o.nd to the rather, and the faith. The two propositions action of Pilate in sending Jesus to execution are not the ea.me. The first affirms that it (Luke n:iii. 25; John xix. 16). Here it is is the Name of Jesus which hos given him spoken of the whole action of tl..ie Jews in strength, objectively; tho second that the procuring the death of Jesus. Denied faith (subjective) which is through or by before the face of l'ilat.e. The reference is him ho.th given him perfect soundness. exact to Luke :x.rii.i. 13-23. To releaee There is some obscurity in the exact mean- him. There is a verbal agreement with ing of.;, 1r(o-Tis .;, iii' au-roii. Some (see Alford, Luke xxiii 16, 17, 20. i 1) compare 1 Pet. i. 21, and make God Ver. 14.-Holy and righteous One for Holy the object of the faith of his witnesHes, One and the Juat, A. V.; aekedjor forduired, Peter and John. Others (Meyer) understand A.V. that the faith in the Nome of Christ was Ver. 15.-Raised for hath raised, A.V. wrought in Peter and John by or through The Prinoe of life; a remarkable title h<lre Christ's ministry and resurrection. But it given to our Lord, to bring out the contrast is much more consonant with other passages between him whom they preferred and him (eh. xiv. 9; xvi. 31, etc.; Matt. xv. 28, eto.) whom they rejected. Bo.ro.bbas was a mur- to understand the faith to be thRt of the derer, one who took away human life for his man who was ht:o.led; and then the phrase, own base ends ; the other was the Prince and " which is through him," will denote no.tur- Antbor of life, who wo.e come into the world, ally that it was through Jesus Christ that not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. the man's faith brought him into contact, This title, ta.ken in connection with the so t.o speak, with God who hen.led him. preceding declaration, "God bath glorified In the so.me spirit we read that the lamo hiB Servant Jesus," seems almost to be a man "praised God" (vers. 8, 9) for the cure reminiscence of our Saviour's prayer," Father, effected through the Nome of Jesus Christ; . . . glorify thy Son, that tliy Son olso may and l'eter says (ver. 15), "Whom God ro.ised glorify thee: as thou he.Bt given Lim power from the dead." The interpretation of the over all flesh, that he should give eternal phrase TJ 'U ab-roii depends upan whether wo life toaa ma.nyo.e thou ho.et given him" (John supply an active or o. passive word. The xvii 1, 2). Jesus Limself in very many faith which acts, or tDOf'kB, or movea through places dwells upon hie own great preroga.- him is one way of understanding it; the iive of giving life: "I am come that they faith which ill lllrought or produced through might have life, and . . . have it more abuu- him la the other. The first is preferable. OH, lll, 1~26,] 'l'HE ACTS OF TIIE APuSTLES. 95