Acts 9:29 - Exposition

Preaching boldly, etc, the and of the T.R. is omitted, and this clause connected with the preceding one; the Lord for the Lord Jesus, A.V. and T.R.; he spake for he spake boldly, A.V. (The παῤῥησιαζόμενος (translated preaching boldly ) ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι κυρίου , is in the R.T. separated from ἐλάλει ); the Grecian Jews for the Grecians, A.V., as in Acts 6:1 ; to kill for to slay, A.V. The Grecian Jews ; or, Hellenists (margin). St. Stephen was a Hellenist, and it was among the Hellenists that his evangelical labors elderly lay and from whose enmity he met his death. Saul showed his dauntless spirit, and perhaps his deep compunction at the part he had taken in Stephen's death, by thus encountering their bitter and unrelenting enmity.