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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Acts 23:9

Scribe is a name denoting an office or place; and the sribes were men skilled in the law. A spirit or an angel; ome take the latter to be exegetical of the former, and that by a spirit is only meant an angel; by such messengers God many times sending his messages to the children of men. Yet others by spirit understand prophetical revelation, and the Spirit of prophecy, which was expected to be shed abroad in large measures about that time; as appears, 1 Thessalonians 7:39. Let us not fight against God: See Poole on "Acts 5:39".

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    ACTS 23:9 In order to balance the protasis (eiv de.…_)_ at the close of the verse, the Byzantine text (H L P _al,_ followed by the Textus Receptus) adds, perhaps from Acts 5:39, mh. qeomacw/men...

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Combined Bible Commentary

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

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  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Bible Study New Testament

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:22; 1 Samuel 24:17; Acts 11:17; Acts 25:25; Acts

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Strove. The diversion was successful. The Pharisees ' hatred of the Sadducees was greater than their hatred of Christianity. What if a spirit, etc. Neither the A. V. nor Rev. give the precise form of...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And the scribes of the Pharisees' side arising — Every sect contains both learned and unlearned. The former used to be the mouth of the party. If a spirit — St. Paul in his speech from the stairs had...

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