使徒行传 8:32, 使徒行传 8:35 RCUVSS

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 8:27-39

The inquiring proselyte. Give some account of Ethiopia, of the queen of that day, of the office the eunuch occupied, and of the probable means by which he had been made a Jewish proselyte. He was one of those men among the heathen who had been awakened to spiritual anxiety by the ever-working Spirit of God. He may have had some Jewish connections, through whom he had come to know of Jehovah. We can recognize in him: 1. An inquirer. 2. A spiritually awakened inquirer, one who had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 8:32

Now the place for the place, A.V. ; was reading for read, A.V.; as a lamb … is dumb for like a lamb dumb, A.V. ; he openeth not for opened he not, A.V. As a lamb … is dumb. The A.V. of this clause seems to me preferable as a rendering of the Greek, though the Hebrew has המָלָאֶןֶ , "is dumb." But this may be rendered "which is dumb." As regards the word περιοχή , rendered place, and considered as the antecedent to which, the use of it by Cicero ('Ad Attic.,' 13.25) for... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Acts 8:32

The place ... - Isaiah 53:7-8.He was led ... - This quotation is taken literally from the Septuagint. It varies very little from the Hebrew. It has been almost universally understood that this place refers to the Messiah; and Philip expressly applies it to him. The word “was led” ἤχθη ēchthē implies that he was conducted by others; that he was led as a sheep is led to be killed. The general idea is that of “meekness” and “submission” when he was led to be put to death; a description that... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Acts 8:32-33

Acts 8:32-33. The place Η περιοχη , the portion, or paragraph, of the Scripture which he read was, He was led, &c. These words were taken from Isaiah 53:8; where, that the prophet speaks of Christ, no Christian can reasonably doubt, there being scarce a verse in the whole chapter which is not by the Holy Ghost applied to Christ in the New Testament; the 1st verse, John 12:38; the 3d, Mark 9:12; the 4th, Mark 8:17; the 5th, Mark 15:28. And by reading this same chapter, many Jews,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Acts 8:26-40

Christianity enters Philistia (8:26-40)From Samaria Philip headed south towards the region of Philistia on the Mediterranean coast (26). On the way he met another non-Jewish person who responded to his preaching. This man, a government official from Ethiopia in north Africa, was already one of the God-fearers and was reading the Old Testament when Philip met him (27-29). However, he did not understand what he was reading. When Philip explained the Scriptures to him, the man learnt the meaning... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Acts 8:32

The place = Now the context. Greek. perioche. Only here. Quoted from Isaiah 53:7 , almost word for word from the Septuagint slaughter. Greek. sphage. Only here, Romans 8:36 . James 5:5 . lamb. Greek. amnos. See note on John 1:29 . dumb. Greek. aphonos, voiceless. Only here, 1Co 12:2 ; 1 Corinthians 14:10 . 2 Peter 2:16 . The usual word in the Gospels is kophos. his shearer = the one shearing (Greek. keiro) him. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Acts 8:32

Now the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, So he openeth not his mouth: In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: His generation who shall declare? For his life is taken from the earth.As a sheep ... as a lamb ... This passage, of course, is Isaiah 53:7f, one of the great Suffering Servant passages of Isaiah. Christ was the "lamb slain from the foundation of the world," "the lamb of God... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 8:32

32, 33. The place . . . was this, He was led as a sheep, &c.—One cannot but wonder that this, of all predictions of Messiah's sufferings in the Old Testament the most striking, should have been that which the eunuch was reading before Philip joined him. He could hardly miss to have heard at Jerusalem of the sufferings and death of Jesus, and of the existence of a continually increasing party who acknowledged Him to be the Messiah. But his question to Philip, whether the prophet in this... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Acts 8:26-40

2. Philip’s ministry to the Ethiopian eunuch 8:26-40Luke recorded this incident to show the method and direction of the church’s expansion to God-fearing Gentiles who were attracted to Judaism at this time. The Ethiopian eunuch had visited Jerusalem to worship, was studying the Old Testament, and was open to instruction by a Jew. Therefore he was much more sympathetic to the Christians’ gospel than the average Gentile. This man appears to have been the first full-fledged Gentile that Luke... read more