Matthew Poole Commentary - Acts 3:2 - 3:2

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Acts 3:2 - 3:2


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Lame from his mother’s womb, and not by any casualty, that so the miracle might be the greater, and the power of the God of nature appear.



They laid daily; by which it was manifest, that it could not be by any correspondence between the apostles and the lame man upon this occasion.



At the gate of the temple; where there must needs be the greater notice taken of him; none going in or out but such as might see him.



Called Beautiful, for the excellency of the workmanship: it was at the entering into the second court, or the court of the Jews from that of the Gentiles. This man, out of pride, being unwilling to beg of the Gentiles, though proselyted, (whom they did contemn), or out of policy, hoping to receive more of the Jews, whom he is nearer related to,



asked alms of them that entered into the temple. Poverty is no sign of God’s disfavour (our blessed Redeemer is in an especial manner called Caput pauperum); but lameness in this man, divers miseries and calamities in others, bring them to the knowledge of Christ, and salvation through him.