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Act 5:38. Λέγω ὑμῖν, I say unto you) This formula in this passage has in it something of a bland, rather than a severe character.-ἐάσατε, let them alone, allow them) viz. to do what they are doing. We ought to give our assent to a cause that is manifestly good: we ought to resist one that is manifestly bad. But in the case of a matter sudden, new, and doubtful, and in relation to adversaries inflamed with anger, the counsel of Gamaliel is a pre-eminently salutary one.-ἢ, or) He means to say by this word, that it should be rather termed a work than a counsel. At least the apostles were doing all things, not by their own, but by the Divine counsel.-καταλυθήσεται, it will be dissolved, or come to nought) It both can and will be dissolved, either by you or by others, or of itself.