John Bengel Commentary - Acts 1:2 - 1:2

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John Bengel Commentary - Acts 1:2 - 1:2


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Act 1:2. Ἐντειλάμενος, having given commandment) They who depart are wont to give commandment and a commission, as is needed and what is sufficient for the occasion. In Act 1:3, Luke expresses generally, what the Lord spake to the apostles during those Forty days: but in Act 1:2; Act 1:4, et seq., he declares what He said on that remarkable day, viz., that of His Ascension: with this comp. Act 1:5 at the end, and Act 1:9 at the beginning [which prove that Act 1:4-9 refer to the one and the same day, namely, that of the Ascension]. For it was up to that very day that Luke had carried forward his Gospel: and with it he begins the Acts of the Apostles.-τοῖς ἀποστόλοις, unto the apostles) An appellation appropriate to the subject of the whole book: their term of discipleship was now expired.-διὰ, through) Construe this with having given commandment. He Himself who gave commandment had the Holy Spirit, Luk 4:18, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me:” and He bestowed that Spirit upon the apostles in giving them His instructions, Joh 20:22, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost;” intending presently after to bestow it on them most abundantly. Thus before His ascension He gave them an earnest of Pentecost.-ἐξελέξατο) He had chosen out: Luk 6:13; Joh 6:70. Judas is treated of separately in Act 1:16-17.-ἀνελήφθη) He was taken up.