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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 17:30 - 17:30
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the times of this ignorance God winked at - literally (and far better), “overlooked,” that is, bore with, without interposing to punish it, otherwise than suffering the debasing tendency of such worship to develop itself (compare Act 14:16, and see on Rom 1:24, etc.).
but now - that a new light was risen upon the world.
commandeth - “That duty - all along lying upon man estranged from his Creator, but hitherto only silently recommending itself and little felt - is now peremptory.”
all men every where to repent - (compare Col 1:6, Col 1:23; Tit 1:11) - a tacit allusion to the narrow precincts of favored Judaism, within which immediate and entire repentance was ever urged. The word “repentance” is here used (as in Luk 13:3, Luk 13:5; Luk 15:10) in its most comprehensive sense of “repentance unto life.”