Acts 17:30 - Exposition

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked for and the times of this ignorance God winked at, A.V.; he commandeth for commandeth, A.V.; men for all men, A.V.; that they should all everywhere repent for everywhere to repent, A.V. and T.R. The times of ignorance ; perhaps with reference to Acts 17:23 , and also implying that all the idolatry, of which he had spoken in Acts 17:29 , arose from ignorance. God overlooked ; or, as it is idiomatically expressed in the A.V., winked at; made as if he did not see it; "kept silence," as it is said in Psalms 1:1-6 . 21; made no move to punish it. That they should all everywhere . The gospel is for the whole world- "Their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world" ( Romans 10:18 ); "Preach the gospel to every creature" ( Mark 16:15 ). Repent . The key-note of the gospel ( Matthew 3:2 ; Matthew 4:17 ; Acts 20:21 ).