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ch. xxiv. 5,

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12: iv. 14.

q Luke xxiv.

27. ch. xvii. 3: xix. 8.

r see on ch. xxvi. 6, 22.

8 ch. xiv. 4: xvii. 4: xix. 9.

t ISA. vi. 9. Jer. v. 21.

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Matt. xiii. 14,
Mark iv.
Luke

15.

12.

8

p Luke 1.34. every where Pit is spoken against. 23 And when they had Pet.. appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. 24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. 25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, 26 saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: John xii. 40. 27 for the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 28 Be it known thereu Matt. xxi. 41, fore unto you, that i the salvation of God is sent "unto the 46, 47 xviii. Gentiles, and that they will hear it. [291 And when he had Rom. xi. 11. said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.] 30 And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto hvi. him, 31 x preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching

viii. 10.

Rom. xi. 8.

43. ch. xiii.

6: xxii. 21:

xxvi. 17, 18.

x ch. iv. 31. Eph. 19.

h literally, turn again.

krender, they will also hear it.

1 omitted by all our oldest authorities: but see note.

-the year and a half (ch. xviii. 11), and
three months (ch. xx. 3) at Corinth, we
know from the narrative nothing that
took place among the Christians them-
selves. Besides, one great object of this
history is to shew forth Paul as working
out the Lord's implied command to preach
the Gospel to the Jew first, and also to
the Gentile' (ch. i. 8), and, having every
where done this, it is but natural that he
should open his commission in Rome by
assembling and speaking to the Jews.
23. his lodging] Probably the "hired house"
of ver. 30: hardly, as Olshausen thinks, the
house of Aquila. 25.] they departed,
but not before Paul had said one saying.
It is very remarkable, that the same pro-
phetic quotation with which our Lord
opened his teaching by parables (Matt.
xiii. 14, 15), should form the solemn close
of the historic Scriptures.
26.] The
Go, and say, is referred to himself, in his

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i read, this.

application of the prophecy. These words
are not cited by our Lord (Matt. xiii. as
above).
28.] this was probably
omitted as superfluous, and perhaps to suit
Luke iii. 6. It adds greatly to the force:
this the message of God's salvation, i. e.
there is no other for those who reject this?
they will also (besides having it
sent to them) hear it] "What Paul had
learned by experience in many cities of
Asia and Europe, viz. that the sowing of
the word among the Gentiles was attended
with more success, this he now anticipates
also for the future." Grotius.
This verse has not the usual characteristic
of spurious passages,-the variety of read-
ings in those MSS. which contain it. It
may perhaps, after all, have been omitted
as appearing superfluous after ver. 25.
30, 31.] It is evident that Paul was not
released from custody, but continued with
the soldier who kept him,-(1) from the

29.]

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those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.

expressions here; he received all who came in to him, but we do not hear of his preaching in the synagogues or elsewhere: he preached and taught with all boldness, and unhindered, both being mentioned as remarkable circumstances, and implying that there were reasons why this could hardly have been expected: and (2) from his constantly speaking of himself in the Epistles written during it, as a prisoner, see Eph.

vi. 19, 20; Col. iv. 3, 4; Philem. 9; Philipp. frequently. On the whole question regarding the chronology of his imprisonment, and the reason of this abrupt ending of the history, see Introduction to Acts, § iv. 3-7:-and on its probable termination and the close of St. Paul's life, see the Introduction to the Pastoral Epistles, § ii. 17 ff.

END OF VOL. I.

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE, LONDON.

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