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6. ἀντιτασσομένων δὲ αὐτῶν, but when they opposed themselves. The word implies a strong organized opposition. They resisted like a force drawn up for battle.
καὶ βλασφημούντων, and blasphemed. The same word is used in 2Pe 2:2, ‘The way of truth shall be evil spoken of.’ And the same conduct, though the word is different, is described in the next chapter (Act 19:9), ‘speaking evil of the Way before the multitude.’
ἐκτιναξάμενος τὰ ἱμάτια εἶπεν, he shook out his raiment and said. Cf. LXX. Neh 5:13, καὶ τὴν ἀναβολήν μου ἐξετίναξα καὶ εἶπα Οὕτως ἐκτινάξαι ὁ θεὸς πάντα ἄνδρα ὂς οὐ στήσει τὸν λόγον τοῦτον ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκ κόπου αὐτοῦ. The act is figurative of entire renunciation. Nothing which pertained to them should cling to him. In like manner he would cast them from his thoughts. Cf. Act 13:51.
τὸ αἶμα ὑμῶν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ὑμῶν, your blood be upon your own heads. For the phrase cf. LXX. 2Sa 1:16; 1Ki 2:37; Eze 33:4. The verb to be supplied is ἔστω or ἐλθέτω. The Apostle uses the O.T. expression ‘blood’ in the figurative sense of ‘destruction.’
εἰς τὰ ἔθνη πορεύσομαι, I will go unto the Gentiles, i.e. the Gentiles in Corinth. For in his future preaching elsewhere (see Act 19:8) he addressed the Jews and went to the synagogue, as had been his custom from the first.