Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Acts 20:32

ἀδελφοί omitted with אABD. Not represented in Vulg.

ὑμῖν omitted with אABDE. Not represented in Vulg.

32. καὶ τὰ νῦν παρατίθεμαι ὑμᾶς, and now I commend you. It is as if he said: I am to leave you, but I leave you to the care of One who will help you as He has helped me, and who will not leave you. ὁ λόγος τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ means the gracious promises of the Gospel, such as those which Christ gave to His disciples when He foretold the mission of the Comforter (John 16:7-12), and which the Christian preachers might repeat as His words to the converts who believed on His name.

τῷ δυναμένῳ, which is able. This must be referred to θεῷ, and not to the intervening explanatory clause. It is God who can build up His people and give them their heavenly inheritance.

τὴν κληρονομίαν, the inheritance, that to which, by becoming sons of God through Christ, you are made heirs. The figure is taken from the apportionment of the promised land among the Israelites. The share of each of God’s servants in the heavenly Canaan is to be regarded as definitely as were the possessions of the chosen people in the earthly Canaan.

ἐν τοῖς ἡγιασμένοις πᾶσιν, among all them which are sanctified. More literally ‘which have been sanctified.’ But just as the Apostle uses ‘saints’ frequently in his Epistles to mean those who have been called to be such, so here his words do not indicate that those of whom he speaks have attained the perfection of holiness. When they reach their inheritance, then they will have been perfected in Christ.

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