Acts 1:25 - Exposition

To take the place in this for that he matt take part of this, A.V. and T.R.; fell away for by transgression fell, A.V. ( παρέβη ). The use of παραβαίνω in an intransitive sense for "to transgress, fall away from, turn aside from; and the like, is frequent in the LXX . ( Exodus 32:8 ; Deuteronomy 17:20 , etc.). To his own place . An awful phrase, showing that every man has the place in eternity which he has made for himself in time. If the reading place, in the beginning of the verse, is adopted instead of the part ( κλῆρον ) of the A.V., then them is a contrast between the blessed place of apostleship, which Judas forfeited, and that of traitorship, which he acquired.