The Teachers' Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... increasing their numbers, by delivering theni from the Egyptians through wonderful miracles of intervention in their behalf, by lifting them from a miserable state of bondage, into a nation of free people. (8) He suffered their manners (ver. 18), irpoito(p6ptaiv, from rpoVoj, manner, way of doing things, manner of life, and tpopia (a frequentative of p4pa, to bear) denoting not the simple and transient act of bearing, but a continuous or habitual bearing; hence, the Greek word for the four English words, means, He endured, he bore with continually, the character and actions of the Israelites for forty years, as a father bears with a wayward son, using every loving means to reclaim him and fit him for a noble life. Another reading, 4rpoipop6piiafv, from zpaip&s. a nurse, expresses a slightly different meaning, to bear like a nurse or mother with tender care; corresponding with Deut. 1: 31, ' The Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son." (4) He gave them the Promised Land. 19. Destroyed seven nations. Deut. 7:1; Josh. 3: 10; 24: 11, give their names. He destroyed on account of their sins, and in order that a better people might have the land best adapted to train them into the kingdom of God. Divided... to them by lot, Ko.TfKtpov6n7io-Gv. "The A. V. gives the literal rendering. The R. V. gave them their land for an inheritance, is correct, so far as the meaning inheritance is concerned (see on 1 Pet. 1: 4), but does not give the sense of distribution which is contained in the word." (5) He gave them a free government. 20. About the space of four hundred and fifty years. The best attested reading connects these words with the preceding verse. "He divided their land to them by lot" "for an inheritance," within ...