John Bengel Commentary - Acts 7:35 - 7:35

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John Bengel Commentary - Acts 7:35 - 7:35


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Act 7:35. Τοῦτον, this) So οὗτος is used thrice in the three following verses, by a grand Anaphora [See Append. The repetition of the same word in beginnings].-ἠρνήσαντο, they refused or denied) Forty years before, they had denied him. In the book of GOD there is accurate note made of what mortals speak against GOD; and the words and deeds of one man are ascribed also to those who are of the same mind: Rom 1:32. Something may be denied (it is possible in some cases to deny) even by the mere will or wish.-ἄρχοντα καὶ δικαστην, ἄρχηγον καὶ λυτρωτὴν) A gradation: ἄρχων, a prince; ἀρχηγὸς, a chief leader; δικαστὴς, a judge, one who delivers or rescues a private individual from a private individual; λυτρωτὴς, a redeemer or deliverer, who rescues a nation from a nation. So too GOD made Jesus, whom the Jews had denied, Lord.-ἐν χειρὶ) ביד is the expression in Hebrew.-ἀγγέλου, of the angel) viz. the Lord, the Son of God: see Act 7:30-31. See L. de Dieu on this passage.