Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 2:39 - 2:39

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 2:39 - 2:39


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39. ἐπαγγελία must be taken to embrace the same gifts which it included in Act 1:4 and Act 2:33.

καὶ τοῖς τέκνοις. As under the old covenant the promises were made (Gal 3:16) ‘to Abraham and his seed,’ so is it to be under the new dispensation.

τοῖς εἰς μακράν. Peter knew from the first, we see, that the Gentiles were to be admitted to the same privileges as Israel. But Christ’s commission said they were to preach first in Jerusalem and in Judæa. Peter needed the vision of the great sheet let down from heaven to tell him when God’s time was come for the extension of the work; and though in his dream the natural prejudice of his race was asserted, yet when he awoke he went ‘without gainsaying as soon as he was sent for’ (Act 10:29), as he says to Cornelius. For Christ’s words had been ‘Go, teach all nations.’

The expression οἱ εἰς μακράν means those persons, whom to reach you have to go out into the distance.

προσκαλέσηται. Render, shall call unto Him. Thus the force of the preposition will be given, which disappears in A.V.