使徒行传 14:15-17 CUNPSS

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 14:17

Verse 17− 17.− Notwithstanding, he did not suffer himself to be without witness. Paul and Barnabas take from the Gentiles in this place the cloak [pretext] of ignorance. For how greatly soever men please themselves in their own inventions, being at length convicted of error, they fly unto this fortress, [asylums] that they ought to bear no blame; − (35) but that God was rather cruel, who did not vouchsafe so much as. with one hiss to call those back whom he saw perish, [perishing.] Paul and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:1-28

The Word and the miracle. In the advancement of the kingdom of God on earth, whether by our Lord himself in the days of his flesh, or by the apostles after his ascension, two great instruments were in constant and simultaneous use—the preaching of the Word of God and the working of miracles. In the Gospels it is difficult to say which was the most prominent feature of our Lord's life—his preaching the Word or his mighty works of power. He himself places them side by side in his description... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:7-20

The insufficient and the efficacious. We ask such questions as these—What is it that will convince the minds and convert the souls of men? What avails to establish the kingdom of Christ in any town or neighborhood? What will secure the practical acceptance of Divine truth? The answer is that some things are strong but insufficient; one thing only is efficacious. I. THE INSUFFICIENT . 1. The hand of God in nature does not suffice. "The living God which made heaven and earth,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:8-18

The light shining in darkness—Lystra. The heathenish state of the population. So much the brighter seemed the light. The effect of the miracle on the cripple. A warning against making a superstitious use of men's credulity—as the Romish Church has done. I. A REAL TRIAL OF THE APOSTLES . 1. Of their faithfulness to the truth. Had they been willing, as the Church afterwards was, to mingle heathenism with Christianity, they might have accomplished more in captivating the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:8-18

Three instances of faith. The contents of these verses are very diversified and very full. Yet a certain unity attaches to them, and from this point of view they will be now regarded. Paul and Barnabas have now reached a people who arc almost exclusively Gentiles, and Gentiles of the Gentiles. The miracle with which this paragraph opens may be supposed to find its place here by the mind of the Spirit, less for its own particulars, interesting and instructive as they are, than for the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:8-20

Healing of the lame man at Lystra. The event is chiefly remarkable for the effect it produced upon the minds of the people of the country and the illustration of the apostolic temper and spirit thereby called forth. I. THE SUFFERER AND HIS FAITH . 1. His complaint was congenital, and, according to ordinary ways of thinking, incurable. This brings all the more his faith into relief. It is the very power and property of faith to conquer what seems to reason unconquerable.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:15

Bring you good tidings for preach unto you, A.V.; vain things for vanities, A.V.; who for which, A.V.; the heaven and the earth for heaven and earth, A.V. ; that in them is for things that are therein, A.V. For the declaration, We also are men of like passions with you , compare Peter's saying to Cornelius ( Acts 10:26 ), "Stand up; I myself also am a man." St. Paul finely contrasts the utter vanity, i.e. the impotence, lifelessness, uselessness, and unprofitableness of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:15

No gods, only God. The subject may be introduced by such a sketch of the incidents as will bring prominently forward these points. 1. The apostles wrought a miraculous healing. 2. Their act was seriously misconceived. 3. Pagan sentiments overwhelmed the Christian teaching. 4. The apostles most deeply felt the insult which the proposed sacrifice offered to the Divine honor and sole claim. Remember that the first and supreme truth to a Jew is the unity and spirituality Of... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:16

The generations gone by for times past, A.V.; the nations for nations, A.V. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:16

God's ways with the nations. Attention is called to the sentence, "Who, in times past," or in bygone generations, "suffered all nations," or all the heathen, "to walk in their own ways." On this sentence Olshausen writes, "In the first place, Paul contrasts the present time, as the time of the Messiah, with former times, in which the heathen world, with no such light as the Jewish nation possessed, lived on in their own ways. In this thought is to be found the apology for the design of the... read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 14:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:1-28

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:7-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:8-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:8-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:8-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 14:16

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