Acts 3:23 - Exposition

Shall be for come to pass , A.V.; shall not hearken to for will not hear, A.V.; utterly destroyed for destroyed, A.V. Utterly destroyed. The Greek ἐξολοθρεύω occurs frequently in the LXX . for the Hebrew phrase," cut off from his people" ( Genesis 17:14 ); but in Deuteronomy 18:19 , the phrase is quite different, "I will require it of him." St. Peter hero gives the sense, not the ipsissima verba, and thereby marks the extreme gravity of the sin of unbelief (see John 3:18 ).