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40. ἑτέροις τε λόγοις πλείοσιν. This is a very important statement. We learn from it that there is no attempt made by the writer of the Acts to produce more than the substance and character of what was here said. And we may be sure that he uses the same rule always. We need not therefore be startled if we find an address followed by mighty results, even though St Luke’s abstract of it may only extend over a few verses.
διεμαρτύρατο, he charged, as 1Ti 5:21; 2Ti 2:14; 2Ti 4:1. Peter’s address was not of the nature of testimony but a direction what the penitents were to do.
σκολιᾶς. Literally crooked. The expression ‘crooked generation’ is found in A.V. (Deu 32:5) where the Greek of the LXX. is the same as here and in Php 2:15. γενεὰ σκολιά is also the text in Psalms 77 (78):8.