him, being delivered, &c. i.e. given up unto you, as God had decreed for the sake of man's redemption.

ye have taken, and by wicked hands, &c. The best MSS. omit the word rendered have taken. Read, ye by the hand of wicked men have crucified and slain. By the hand ofis a Hebrew formula for by means of. Cp. Leviticus 8:36, "things which the Lord commanded by the hand ofMoses." So 2 Kings 14:25, &c.

wicked Lit. lawless.

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