senBe, 18 to make ~1..is o~u.-• govern .-bv special apoatolio office or being witneasoa 11.d-,,ov directly: "Yon, Gentiles, well know of Chriet's resurrection (see oh. i. 8, 21, the word whioh God sent to the Israelites, 22; ii. 32; iii. 15; iv. 88; v. 82; xiii. 81; when he oansed the gospel of peace to be xxvi. 16, as well as vors. 89 e.nd 42 of this preoobed to them, the word, namely, whioh ohopter). This constant reference to the came [ .,-1, -,,,vdµ,vov pi,µu-<JOmp. espreially testimony of eye-witnesses is an indication Luke iii. 2) throngl,out all Judma," eto. of the thoroughly historical character of (ver. SS), "about Jesus of Nazareth, bow Christianity, and of the importance of that God anointed him," etc. In the above Christie.n evidences. The new matter which ~onten<'.e, .-b -y,v&µ,vov ~1/f.L" is in apposition Peter was to bring before Cornelius and his with .-bv 11.&-,,ov, but amplifies and explains company begins at ver. 40, but with the it; and again 'l71<rouv .-bv a;,rl, Na(aph, prefatory remarks in vcr. 39, which both with all that follows down to the end of attest the truth of whe.t Cornelius already rnr. 39, is a still further explanation of the knew and prepare for the following revela- {!TJf.LO, and a summary of that gospel which, tion. Who did eat and drink ( see Luke nsCornelius already knew, had been preached ::u.iv. 80, 41-43; John xxi. 12, etc.). t,) the Jews by Jesus himself. The paren- Ver. 42.-Charged for commanded, A.V.; thesis, "He is Lord of all," is most op- this is he which is for it is he which was, portunely inserted, that his hearerd might A.V. To be the J"udge, eto. This statement know that Jesus of Nazareth was Lord of involves the resurrection of the dead (comp. the Gentiles as well as of the Jews. The John v. 21-29; Rev. :n. 11, 12). It is words 11.o')'os and pi,µa are synonymous, as in easy to see how the creeds would be formed vcr. 44 and in l Pet. i. 23, 25 (see Luke from the repetition of short doctrinal state- iii. 2; Eph. vi. 17), and are better both ments like this (see 1 Cor. xv. 3, 4). expressed by the English wMd, as ~n the Ver.43.-Bear for give, A.V.; everyone A.V., than by toOTd and saying, as m the that for whosoever, A.V.; on him for in him, r..v. A.V. Here we have another article of the Ver. 38.-,Eh,en Jes,u of Nazareth, how Creed, the forgiveness of sins, preached too that God anoint,ed him for how God anointed in immedie.te e.nticipation of baptism, on the JeslJ.3 of Nazareth. The reference to the profession of faith in Jesus Christ (ver. 48). anointing (Is&. lxi l; Luke iv. 18, 21; Comp. eh. viii. 37 (T.R.) and 88. ll:latt. i. 16, 17; eh. iv. 27) was necessary Ver. 45.-.Amazed for astonished, A.V, to represent him as God's Christ (see eh. ix, They of the oiroumoieion would doubtless 22). For the designation, of Nazareth, c.omp. be the brethren from J oppa who e.ccompanied eh. ii. 22; iii. 26; iv. 10; vi. 14; Luke Peter (ver. 23). A more striking confirma- xxiv. 20. Oppressed of the devil Thie tion of Peter's vision cannot be c.onceived ascription of disease to Satan agrees with than this descent of the Holy Ghost upon Job ii 7 and Luke xiii. 16. The word the uncircumcised. How could they any rendered" oppressed" (1<aTa011Va.rrr,voµ,lvovr) longer be reckoned c.ommon or unclean occurs in the New Testament only here whom God thus cleansed with his Holy and Jae. ii 6, but, with its substantive Spirit? 1<a..-a1ivv<UM"Eia, is found repeatedly in the Ver. 46.-J'or they heard them, etc. This LXX. and the .Apocrypha, and in classical was the incontrovertible evidence of their Greek, though rarely. .A good example of reception of the Holy Ghost (see eh. xi. its force is Exod. i 13, and of the sub- 15-18, and ii. 4 and 11, and note on ver. 4), stantive Exod. vi. 7. It means "to rule Ver. 47.-Thewaterfor water, A.V. They over oppressively, and by force." In the actually had the Spirit, which God himself explanatory addition, :For God was with him, supplied; could any one object to their Peter teaches what our Lord himself and having the water also, which we.s the part St. John in his Gospel so constantly do, that of the sacrament which it rested with man our Lord's miracles were wrought by the to supply, in order to complete the new power of God (see e.g. John v. 17, 19, 30; birth (John iii. 5)? vii. 28; viii 28; iL 3, 4; Luke xi. 20, etc.). Ver. 48.-Jesus Christ for the Lord, A.V. The unity of the Son with the Father would and T.R. No one forbidding or objecting, be taught later. Peter immediately ordered that they should Ver. 39.-Country for land, .A.V.; 'UJhom be baptized, He does not appear to he.ve a.l.ao for whom, A.. Y. aD.d T.R. ; hanging him baptized them himself, any more than St. for and hanged, A.. V. Paul did his c.onverts (1 Car. i 13-17). Ver. 40.-Gar,e him to be made manifest '£hey prayed him to tarry with them, no for s11,()1J)ed him openly, .A.V. doubt that they might receive fuller instruo- Ver, 41.-nat were choaen for choaen, tion in the faith of the Lord Jesus Ohrilt, A."V. Peter here again brings forward the into which they had been baptized. OB. ][, 1-48.] THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. 837
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