Verse 31
31. A day See note on John 11:24.
That man Crowning the scheme of human history is this judgment- day, at which man, the image and offspring of God, is by man to be judged.
Ordained As the God of all ages has appointed the day, so he, the God of all nations, hath ordained the man.
Assurance to all As the day and the man are great world-wide facts, so of them God has sent forth a world-wide announcement.
From the dead That a common man should be raised from the dead is not credible, for God would not do such a thing. But that a wonderful man, an exceptional man, a miraculous man, the race-born Son of man, ordained by God and set forth by him, should be raised, is credible. And when God has done such a thing, then he furnishes men good reason to believe when he declares that the man raised from the dead will judge the world in righteousness.
These Athenians now hear the fact that a man was raised from the dead, separate from all its miraculous and divine connexions, just as incredulously as we would hear that a man was raised from the dead in some neighbouring country town. They listen to it as a thing not to be listened to. And so, in their peremptory haste, they sink the topmost man of the human race, the topmost event of human history, and the topmost day of human existence, into the ordinary, and so into the false.
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