27 King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.



Ver. 27. I know thou believest] sc. The truth of what the prophets spoke concerning Christ, and that are accordingly fulfilled in him. Faith hath for its general object the whole Holy Scripture; but for its special object the promises, or rather Christ revealed in the promises. All the Israelites beheld the wilderness and the whole hemisphere; but such only as were stung, looked up to the brazen serpent, and were healed. Devils and reprobates may believe the truth of the Scriptures, and see far into the mystery of Christ by a common illumination, but true believers only can close up themselves in the wounds of Christ, and by a particular faith receive healing by his stripes.