Verse 13
13. Beside ourselves The Greek word is the one from which our term ecstasy is derived. See note on Acts 10:10. The apostle here, apparently, ironically alludes to the sneers of his assailant. His extraordinary conversion, his visions of Christ, his trances, as well as his sublimated heroism of character, were the pretext for imputations of mania. So King Agrippa subsequently charged him with madness. And so at the present day an insensible, dying world esteems all intense feeling in regard to eternity as fanaticism. Revivals of religion they will condemn as periods of madness. Yet over some great commercial crisis these very men nay, whole communities, peoples, and nations are excited in every nerve and fibre to an all but frenzy. If we could have once in four years a revival in religion as great as we have a revival in politics at every presidential election, we should think the millennium was dawning.
To God It is the mania of a perfect consecration to the Divine.
For your cause In order to bring the gospel of salvation to you.
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