Verse 8
8. But Although the kingdom of your carnal hopes should be dismissed from mind, yet ye shall receive power which shall be the very essence of the true kingdom. This power should be first personal. As the coming of the Spirit of the Lord (Judges 14:6) strengthened the lower faculties of Samson so as to make him mighty in bodily vigour, so this coming of the Spirit should empower their higher faculties so as to render them Samsons in soul. The power should, secondly, be organic, giving them the visible head-ship in the theocracy; placing them upon the twelve thrones of viceroyalty in the kingdom. Matthew 19:28. Such was to be the compensation in place of their vanishing visions of national restoration.
Witnesses (See note on Acts 1:21-22.)
Jerusalem… Judea… Samaria… earth Like the ever widening circles of water into which a stone has dropped, the Gospel should from its original center include the whole earth in its circumference. These names trace the enlarging advances in beautiful climax. And so Jesus at the beginning designed a universal religion. This was his last testimony before his ascension.
Uttermost part Parts as yet unknown to that age, which future geography was to reveal, and the Gospel of Christ to cover.
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