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Act 3:18. Δὲ, but) In the case of anything badly done by us. this too is to be considered, what good GOD hath done under it.-ἃ προκατήγγειλε, which God announced before) This is opposed to the ignorance (Act 3:17) of the Jews.-πάντων, of all) This imparts great force to his language.-παθεῖν τὸν Χριστὸν αὐτοῦ) So the Greek MSS. of adequate authority, as also Irenæu[29] and the Syr[30] Version. That is to say, that His Anointed should suffer.[31] And this altogether accords with ch. Act 4:26, “Against His Christ.” Others have written αὐτοῦ, His, afterwards the words by the mouth of all the prophets, as we find in Luk 1:70.-οὓτω, so) in this way.
[29] renæus (of Lyons, in Gaul: born about 130 A.D., and died about the end of the second century). The Editio Renati Massueti, Parisinæ, a. 1710.
[30] yr. the Peschito Syriac Version: second cent.: publ. and corrected by Cureton, from MS. of fifth cent.
[31] BCDEde Vulg., both Syr. Versions, and Iren. read αὐτοῦ after Χριστὸν. A puts αὐτοῦ after προφητῶν, omitting παθεῖν τὀν Χριστόν. Rec. Text and Memph. read αὐτοῦ προφητῶν παθ. τ. Χριστόν.-E. and T.