The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 1 — Section 412

Ver. ~5.-BPl"Qll~e for ,o'1~efore, A.V. and their rendering the Hebrew i}.l:i, In Bab. I. T.R.: IT.nu tl'ilt not give for thou •halt not 1811.nd ii. 5, by the same word (1ta.-a.~por,oiir,-ra., s11ffer, A.Y. (sre~-h ii. 27, note); thy for thine, and ,caTa~po,,.,,Tf!l), The rendering Ka.I A.\'. It is rerunrknble that St. Peter and St. lz~1111fa·871T<, and perish, for the Hebrew Paul sh<1uld both quote this sixteenth psalm, \icr:, (another form of the preceding verb and usr precia,·ly the same argument. ,,i;r.i.-,, which in the A.V. is construed with Yer. 36.-In hi.ii own geMration 16f'f!ed the it, 'a~d the two together rendered "wonder co,rn,el of God for ser"ed hu OtDn gen~atwn marvellously"), is not so easily explained, by the toil/ of God, A.V. Mnny good oom• The two best expl11nations seem to be (1) mentutor, construe the words as the RT. that the LXX. read li11.:/r-li1\ \il;>I") instead of does, only some, instead of in his own the present order of the words, and so generation, render " for," i.... for the good rendered the first word 6auµdo-a-r,, wouder, or,•• his own generation." But the A.V. is and, taking the next word from another root, the most natural division of the sentence, con, rendered it a.~avlo-871TE, perish ; (2) thot, and gives the beat sense, only the punctu- ation should oonnect the words "by the reading the words in the same order in will of God" with "foll on sleep." There is which they now stand in the Hebrew text, an allusion to 2 Sam. vii. 12 and I Kings ii. they rendered the first Bauµdo-a-r•, or, with the l, 10, nnd it is intimated that God was still intensive addition, 6auµao-lq., and took the ea.ring for Da,;d in Lis death. But. there second in the sense it has in Arabic, "to be we.s this ve.st differenoe between David and altered" or "changed for the worse," and Christ. David had a work to do limited to expressed it by a.~a,,lo-61}-r,, meaning"change his own generation, and when that work countenance from fear and astonishment." we.s done be died and saw corruption. But And in favour of this explanation the nse of Christ had a work to carry on for eternal a.~a,,1(ou<r, .,.,i ,rpoo-onra in Matt. vi. 16 (" they generations, and 80 he rose and aw no disfigure their faces") is quoted (see Rosen• corruption. miiller on Hab. L 5). St. Paul took the LXX. as he found it. Perhaps he saw Ver. 37.-Raised up for raued again, A. V. signs in some of that unbelief and perverse 'H-yupu•, " raised from the death of slee~," opposition whioh afterwards broke out (ver. as eh. v. SO; 1 Cor. xv. 42-44; 2 Cor. 1v. 45), and so was led to close his sermon with 14· Eph. v. 14, etc. The two words (a.r,l- words of awful warning. <r~µ, and i-y,lpr,,) are combined in eh. xii 7. 'E-y•lp.., is "to aronse," or "awe.ken;" Ver. 42.-.A.nd 1211 they 10ene out for when l,.,,["""1µ<-, to "make to get up." Or in the the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, A.V. passive /-y,lpoµ,,., to be "awakened," and and T.R.: they for t1,e Gentiles, A.V. and in the neuter, lu,ls-r1111, to "get up." T.R.; epoken for preached, A.V. They be- sought. The R.'l'. is that of Chrysostom Ver. 38.-Brethren for men and brethren, and the best manusoripts, and is adopted A. V. as before, -.ers. 26 and 15; procT,ai,ned, by Meyer, Olshansen, Lange, Alford, Bishop for preached, A.V.; remiarion for the forgi- Wordsworth, the • Speaker's Commentary,' neBS, A. V. eto. There is a difi'erenoe of opinion as t.o Ver. 89.-.Eoory one that belier,eth u_forall. who is mee,nt by they. The simplest ex- tJud belier,e are, A. V. Here, then, lB the planation is that they means Paul and Bar- great gospel message of grace, "the gos_pel of nabas, who went out of the synagogue before the grace of God," as St. Paul speaks m eh. the formal dismissal of the congregation; x:i::. 24 ; the proclamation., consequent upon and, as they were going out, received an the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, invitation to repeat their instraotion on the of a free and full forgiveness of sins to all next sabbath. that repent and believe the ~ospel (eh. u. Ver. 43.-The ,ynagogU6 broke up for fAe 21)· see eh. ii. 38; iii. 19; 1v. 12; v. 81; eongregatum. was broken up, A. V. ; the de'oout Co!'. i. 14, et.o., and Matt. i. 21 ; Luke i .. 77. for religious, A. V.; urged for persuaded, A.V. :Kote, too, how adroitly the e.postle _pomts This verse manifestly describes something out the snperiority of the gospel which he subseqnent to the event recorded in the was pree.chrng to them over the Law, and the preceding. The congregation had asked pre-eminence of Christ over Moses. Paul and Barnabas, perhaps through the Ver. 40.-Spokeri for epoken of, A. V. ruler of the synagogue, to return next Ver. n.-I/ one for tl.c,ugh a man, A.V. sabbath. But when tLe congregation broke "TLough " best expresses the Ut11 and the up, many JewH and devout proselytes fol- •~ of the Hebrew. The passage is quoted lowed Paul and Barnabas to their own house nearly verbatim from the LXX. of Hab. i. and received further instrnctions and exhor, :i. The di1ference from the Hebrew arises tation to continue in the grace of God. No from the LXX. having read in their copy doubt Barnabas had Ilia full share in this c •:,.l:; proud, arrogant meu (1<a.-r...ppwqrrl.,),for more private ministry of exhortation ( oh. iv. c•~ &moJll the heathe,, as is clear from 86, note, and xi. 23). (For tl.t.u meuing of  (IJt. IllL 1-62.j THE ACTS OF THR APOSTLE~