The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 26:8
Why is it judged incredible with you, if for why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that, A.V.; doth for should, A.V. Why is it judged , etc. The use of d is somewhat peculiar. It cannot stand for ὅτι , but it is nearly equivalent to "whether," as in Acts 26:23 . The question proposed to the mind is here whether God has raised the dead; and in Acts 26:23 whether Christ has suffered, whether he is the first to rise. In the latter case St. Paul gives the answer... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Acts 26:6-8
The hope of the promise. It is a thing of deepest interest and significance that we can note so clearly, so repeatedly, what it was ever lay so close to the heart that craved the better, that was not dead, that reached towards light. It was ever that one transporting hope that grows out of the death and resurrection of Jesus, the hope of future and eternal life, the vista of an abiding city, a heavenly Canaan, and for their behoove "an house not made with hands," We learn here that,... read more