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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Acts 28:25

They agreed not among themselves; thus Christ came to send fire on the earth, Luke 12:49: not that the gospel does this in itself; for it is the gospel of peace, Ephesians 6:15, not only betwixt God and man, but betwixt man and man; and if its precepts were observed, love, meekness, and goodness would banish all hatred, pride, and contention out of the hearts and lives of men; but this arises out of the corruption that is in man, and from the evil one that sows his tares amongst us. After that Paul had spoken one word; Paul spake this eminent and remarkable word, or sentence, that they might (if possible) be pricked in their hearts at the hearing of God's judgments denounced against them.

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