Verse 46
46. Waxed bold Rising above all useless altercation with the Jews.
Judge yourselves unworthy Not that they literally believed themselves to be unworthy of life eternal. On the contrary, they believed themselves eminently, and even exclusively, the heirs of that inheritance. But they determined themselves to be such sort as truly is unworthy eternal life.
Everlasting life Eternal life is not solely a future, but a present, possession. (See notes on John 4:14; John 5:24; John 6:40.) It is a possession commenced in this life to be perpetuated, in a life to come. There is a present as well as a future salvation. These Jews were indisposed to eternal life, and so rejected the Gospel; the Gentiles, in Acts 13:48, as many as were disposed to eternal life, believed.
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