John Bengel Commentary - Acts 1:3 - 1:3

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John Bengel Commentary - Acts 1:3 - 1:3


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Act 1:3. Παρέστησεν ἑαυτὸν, He Presented or showed Himself) Noble language. A sweet return backwards [a retrogression]: He was taken up, He presented Himself alive, His Passion.-παθεῖν, His Passion) reaching to His death.-τεκμηρίοις, proofs) by sight, hearing, touch, etc.; by means of which they might know clearly and for certain both that it was He Himself, and that He was alive.-δἰ ἡμέρων τεσσαράκοντα) for forty days, not continuously, but at intervals. On the other hand, only ten, not forty, days elapsed from the Ascension to Pentecost: the period of His death was three days.-ὀπτανόμενος, appearing to [being seen of] them) in appearances of considerable length: Joh 21:12.-περὶ τῆς βασιλείας, concerning the kingdom) This was the sum of the words of Christ, even before His Passion.