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Act 5:28. Παραγγελίᾳ, with injunction) He is ashamed to say, with threatening: with which comp. ch. Act 4:17; for they were not able to punish them (Act 4:16).-παρηγγείλαμεν, we enjoined) See the coarse cunning of the enemies of the Gospel! They, according to their own pleasure, both make and wrest aside and invent edicts, laws, and prohibitions, which cannot but be broken by the witnesses who obey the GOD of truth, in order that the innocent may be punished as if they were guilty. O the injustice of such men!-τούτῳ-τούτου, in this name-of this man) He avoids using the name Jesus. Peter uses the name, and does it honour; Act 5:30-31.-τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, Jerusalem) in which, say they, we keep watch.-βούλεσθε, ye wish) An invidious word. The apostles did not wish that; but they taught according to the truth, that Jesus was impiously murdered by the Jews, and at the same time they showed a way whereby the latter might experience the power (virtue) of Jesus’ blood in imparting grace and salvation.-ἐπαγαγεῖν) So Jdg 9:24, ἐπαγαγεῖν τὴν ἀδικίαν-καὶ τὸ αἷμα αὐτῶν ἐπιθεῖναι ἐπὶ Ἀβιμέλεκ.-ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς, upon us) They themselves had a little before taken upon themselves the blood of the Just One in words, Mat 27:25; and in actual deed, presently after, Act 5:30, “they took the reed and smote Him on the head.” [This is the custom of adversaries. Having obtained their opportunity, they show themselves fierce, mad, and unrelenting: then, when the victory inclines to the opposite side, they are unwilling to admit that they have sinned either in deed or intention.]