John Bengel Commentary - Acts 2:39 - 2:39

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John Bengel Commentary - Acts 2:39 - 2:39


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Act 2:39. Ὑμῖν, unto you) This denotes more than if he had said, “The promise is yours.” Comp. Luk 2:11, “Unto you is born, etc., a Saviour.”-ἔστιν, is) stands forth fulfilled: ch. Act 3:25-26, Act 13:32-33.-ἡ ἐπαγγελία, the promise) of this gift.-πᾶσι, to all) and therefore not to the apostles alone.-τοῖς εἰς μακρὰν, who are afar off) The LXX. Isa 57:19, εἰρήνην ἐπʼ εἰρήνῃ τοῖς μακρὰν καὶ τοῖς ἐγγὺς οὖσι. The apostles sometimes touched slightly upon mysteries, the fuller declaration of which was afterwards about to go forth to the world through themselves: and in the meanwhile touched upon them in such words as marvellously corresponded both to the language of the Old Testament and to their own present feeling or sense, which was a true sense, but not as yet the full one, and to the Divine intention, which was about to declare itself further through them. In this passage the Holy Spirit spake through Peter such things as to the admission of the Gentiles speedily, in a large number, and without circumcision (with which comp. Eph 2:13), as Peter himself afterwards in ch. 10 did not at once perceive (apprehend): and yet his words were in accordance with Isaiah; and even these words here are suited to that sense which he afterwards understood. All the words of Scripture are most skilfully chosen. As to the fact signified, weigh well the word first in ch. Act 3:26, “Unto you, in the first instance, God, having raised up His Son Jesus, sent Him.” Rom 2:10, “Of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile:” Act 15:10, “Rejoice ye Gentiles with His people:” Eph 2:19, “You who were afar off are fellow-citizens with the saints” (the Jew-Christians), Act 3:6, “That the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs.” At the same time there is a Euphemism in the fact, that the name, Gentiles (so offensive to Jewish ears), is not introduced.-ὅσους ἂν, κ.τ.λ., whomsoever, etc.) The LXX. have εὐαγγελιζόμενοι οὓς ὁ Κύριος προσκέκληται in Joel, ch. quoted in Act 2:17 [Joe 2:32].-προσκαλέσηται) shall call to Himself. This is the force of the verb in the middle.-Κύριος) יהוה the Lord.-ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, our God) the God of us all.