The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 1 — Section 130

good deed, i.e. t11e benefit done to the lame tion and mighty power of him whom the man, being the subject of e. criminal inquiry, rulers be was addressing had orucifte1l. RB e. tacit condemnation of the uurighteous- Boldness of speech, when combined with n<.>ss of such e. course. charity and moderation, is a most importllnt Ver. 10.-In (Ou, name) for by, A.V., and grace for e. minister of Christ. Unlearned ngain, in (him) for by, A.V.; but if Iv .-(v, is and ignorant men. The term unlearned rightly rendered by what means, Iv .,.c; ov&· (l,:ypd/Lµ.a-ros) means that they had no "know- µ.an e.n d Iv .,-o{n-'!' ought to be rendered e.s in ledge of Jewish culture" beyond the Scrip• the A.V ., by. Be it known unto yon all, eto. turcs. Ignorant men(iouil-ra,) was a technical St. Peter skilfully excuses himself from any term for those who had not studied in presumption in pwaching to the rulers by rabbinio schools. The word hediot occurs making hie words the direct and necessary frequently in the Talmud (Fe.rre.r's • Life of answer to their inquiry. J" 88118 Christ ot St. Paul,' vol. i. p. 106). They took knowledge, Namreth (see eh. iii. 6, note). Whom ye eto. Annas and Caiaphas or some of their crucified, whom God re.i.eed. With what people, it is likely, had seen them in the wonderful conciseness and force are the high priest's pala.oe (John xviii. 15-18). great doctrines of the gospel condensed into Ver. 14.-Beholding for seeing, A.V. a few words I The human nature, the Ver. 16.-Wrought through them for done media.torial glory, the humiliating but by them, A.V.; to all for to all them, A.V. atoning death, the glorious resurrection (a Only here and at ver. 22 and in Luke xxiii. cardinal point in all the apostolic preaching), 8 has miracle been retained in the R. V. e.s and the present might of Christ to sove his the rendering of CT1//L<'ia.: everywhere else people on earth, are all set out in half a it is sign. Wrought through them ; more dozen pregnant words. Even in him. The literally, hath come to pass through them. apostle thus passes from the Name to him Ver. 17.-Threate11 for straitly threaten, "·hose Name it was. Before you. How could A. V. and T.R. The subject of that it spread tl,cydenywhe.t wase.ctually before tbeireycs? seems to be "a notable miracle." They Ver. 11.-He for this, A. V:; tJu, builder, could not deny that it had taken place, but for buil.ders, A.V. ; was made for is become, they could prevent the knowledge of it A.V. Ee ie the stone. He had just ap- spreading, by forbidding the apostles to pealed to their own senses ; he now adds the speak of the Ne.me of Jesus in which it had witness of their own prophets. These bad been wrought. declared that the stone which was set e.t Ver. 18.-0harged for commanded, A.V. nought by the bailders should beoome the Ver. 19.-Rather for more, A.Y. chief comer-stone ; just as it had come to Yer. 20.-Saw and heard for have seen pass. The quotation iJ3 from Ps. cxviii. 22; and heard, A.V. We oannot but speak, etc. only St. Luke here substitutes the word We he.ve here another instance of Peter's ifov6•veiv, to set at nought, for that used boldness of speech under the influence of the by the LXX., l.1rooo,c1/Ld.(uv, to refuse, or Holy Ghost. reject RB unfit. The word i(ove,.,.,,, is Ver. 21.-.A.nd they tDhen they, etc., let them applied directly to our Saviour in Luke go for so when they, etc., they let them go, A. Y. :u:iiL 11, and the similar word, •Eouotvd.,,,, Ver. 22.-More than for above, A.V.; in Mark ix. 11. wrought forshWJed, A.V. Wrought; literally, Ver. 12.-And in none other u there ,al- as in ver. 16, came to pass, or happened, or f!ation for neither is there safoation in any took place. other, A.V.; neither i, there any other, etc., Ver. 23.-0ame for went, A.V.; the elders for there is none other, A. V. ; that is given for elders, A. V. To their own company ( comp. for gif:en, A. V.; wherein for whereby, A.V. Me.I. iii.16). The chief priests (ol ilpx••p•is); TLe eighteenth Article of Religion refers evidently the same as those who were directlv to this verse as proving that eternal described e.s being "of the kindred of the salvation can be obtained only by the Ne.me high priest," in ver. 6 (where see note). of Christ. Yer. 24.-They, when they heard it, lifted Ver. 13.-Beheld for eau,, A. V.; had for when they heard that they lifted, A. V.; per-ceived for perceived, A.V. The boldness; 0 Lord, thou that didst malte, ore.sin margin, literally, free or out epolren11ess ( wap/,11crla), thou, art he that did mal,e, for Lord, thou art and properly used with words signifying to God, which hast made, T.R. and A.Y.; the speak (see eh. ii. 29; iv. 29, 31; x.xviii. 31; heaven and the earth for heaven and earth, John vii 13, etc.), and so the verb (11ap/,11cr1&• A.Y. With one e.ocord (l>/LoOo/Laoov) occurs («rOa,) means" to speak freely and boldly" eleven times in the Acts (ten times in the (eh. ix. 27, 29; xiii 46; xiv. 3; xviii 26: R.T.) and only once elsewhere in the New xii:. 8; xxvi 26; elsewhere in the New Testament, viz. in Rom. xv. 6. 0 Lord, etc. Testament only in Eph. vi. 20; I The11s. Either the margin or the A.V. is preferable to ii. 2). St. Peter had shown his free-spoken- the R.V., which gives e.n unmee.niug vocative nesa in so boldly proclaiming the resurree- pendent. The word here used for ''Lord"  OH, IV, 1-37.] THE ACTS OF 'l'HE APOSTLES. 125