Acts 2:40

And with many other words did he testify, &c. Hence we learn 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, and 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.

testify The same word is translated chargein 1 Timothy 5:21; 2 Timothy 2:14; 2 Timothy 4:1, and would be well rendered here by the same word. Here the address of Peter was not a bearing witness, but a direction what they were to do.

untoward generation Lit. crooked. The word is so translated Philippians 2:15 and might be here. The words "crooked generation" are not strange to the A. V. (Deuteronomy 32:5), and the figure is made stronger by the literal rendering.