41‘Behold, you despisers, Marvel and perish! For I work a work in your days, A work which you will by no means believe, Though one were to declare it to you. '"
1. Paul quotes Habakkuk 1:5.
2. If you despise the promises you will perish. (See Luke 13:3)
3. If you choose to reject, and refuse to believe - you will be declaring your own end.
ACTS 13:41 e;rgon (2) The second instance of e;rgon (î74 a A B C 33 81 1765 1827 vg copsa, bo) was omitted (D E L P 104 216 326 429 915 1881 itgig, p syrp, h _al_) either because it was felt to be r...
Verse 41. _BEHOLD, YE DESPISERS_] There is a remarkable difference here between the Hebrew text in Habakkuk, and that in the Septuagint, which is a little abridged here by St. Paul. I shall exhibit th...
BEHOLD, YE DESPISERS - Hebrew, “Behold, ye among the pagan.” The change from this expression to “ye despisers” was made by the Septuagint translators by a very slight alteration in the Hebrew word - p...
PART III The Witness to the Gentiles. The Apostle to the Gentiles; his Ministry and Captivity. Chapter s 13-28 CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The Divine Choice. Barnabas and Saul separated unto the work (Acts 1...
THE SERMON AT PISIDIAN ANTIOCH. This is a specimen of Paul's missionary practice. In external matters it is true to the facts, yet the sermon is on the one hand so like the sermon of Peter (ch. 2) and...
Then Paul stood up and made a gesture with his hand and said, "You Israelites, and you who are God-fearers, listen to this. The God of this people Israel chose out our fathers and he exalted the peopl...
THE FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY (Acts 13:1-3) Acts 13:1-52; Acts 14:1-28 tell the story of the first missionary journey. Paul and Barnabas set out from Antioch. Antioch was 15 miles up the River Orontes...
BEHOLD. Greek. Plural of _ide._ App-133. The quotation is from Habakkuk 1:5. DESPISERS. Greek. _kataphronetes._ Only here. PERISH. vanish away. Greek. _aphanizo._ Occurs elsewhere, Matthew 6:16; Matt
_Behold ye despisers_ This is the rendering of the LXX. and some other versions. The Hebrew text gives, as A. V., "Behold, ye among the heathen." The LXX. either had, or thought they had, a different...
ἼΔΕΤΕ, ΟἹ ΚΑΤΑΦΡΟΝΗΤΑΊ, _behold, ye despisers_. This the rendering of the LXX. and of some other versions. The Hebrew text gives, as A.V., ‘Behold, ye among the heathen.’ The LXX. either had, or thoug...
PAUL’S SPEECH AT ANTIOCH...
_PAUL'S POWERFUL SERMON AT ANTIOCH ACTS 13:14-41:_ At Perga in Pamphylia John Mark left Paul and Barnabas and went back to Jerusalem. Later, this would cause no small trouble between these brethren. W...
ΊΔΕΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ, _см._ Acts 13:35. ΚΑΤΑΦΡΟΝΗΤΉΣ (G2707) тот, кто презирает, презирающий, тот, кто "плохо думает" о другом человеке, насмешник, проявляющий недостаток уважения или заб...
DISCOURSE: 1779 DANGER OF DESPISING THE GOSPEL SALVATION Acts 13:38. Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: and by him al...
AND PERISH:— _And disappear,_ 'αφανισθητε. See the note on Matthew 6:16. Dr. Heylin reads the sentence, _Consider, ye despisers; be amazed and utterly confounded._ Instead of _shall in no wise,_ &c. w...
AT ANTIOCH OF PISIDIA. Acts 13:14-52. a. In the synagogue, the first sermon of Paul. Acts 13:1. Acts 13:14 But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia; and they went into the s...
See notes one verse 40...
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you. BEHOLD, YE DESPISERS, AND WONDER, AND PERIS...
33 The rendering first psalm in place of second psalm demands some explanation. Our three great witnesses all read second, and we would have so rendered it, but for the confusion which would result wh...
ST. PAUL AS A MISSIONARY 1. Prophets] see on Acts 11:27. SIMEON THAT WAS CALLED NIGER] Niger was a Roman cognomen. LUCIUS OF CYRENE] doubtless one of those Cyrenians who first preached at Antioch (Act...
ANTIOCH OF PISIDIA. ST. PAUL'S SERMON IN THE SYNAGOGUE. The cities which the apostles now proceeded to evangelise (Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe) were situated in the southern part of t...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 13 THE *HOLY SPIRIT CHOOSES BARNABAS AND SAUL, 13:1-3 V1 There were some *prophets and teachers in the *church at Antioch. They were Barnabas,...
BEHOLD, YE DESPISERS. — The quotation is from the LXX. version, the Hebrew giving “Behold, ye among the heathen.” So, in the next clause, “wonder, and perish” takes the place of “wonder marvellously.”...
Acts 13:41.Habakkuk 1:5, but here slightly different from the Hebrew “behold, ye among the nations,” in LXX through the possible mistake of reading the Hebrew noun as if = deceitful ones (with the ide...
JEWS REJECT, GENTILES ACCEPT, THE GOSPEL Acts 13:38-52 The doctrine of justification by faith, so closely associated with the work of Paul, is here stated for the first time. In Jesus there is forgiv...
The first most distinctly missionary movement sprang from Antioch, and was independent of all official initiation. A company of those in Antioch sent Saul and Barnabas, and it is declared immediately...
Proclaiming the Gospel in Antioch of Pisidia Ash says they would have landed at the port of Attalia and then gone on the short distance to Perga. For some reason, John Mark decided to leave "Paul and...
_Ye despisers [2] of the favours offered you, behold, wonder, &c. This citation is out of Habacuc, (chap. i. ver. 5.) according to the Septuagint. The prophet, by these words, foretold to the Jews in...
He here quotes Habakkuk 1:5, in which the prophets warned them lest they reject the glorious tidings of their crucified, risen and ascended Lord, and be plunged into hopeless ruin....
Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent. (27) For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because the...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
41.And yet he doth not recite word for word the words of Habakkuk, which go thus, “Behold, ye Gentiles, and see and wonder, and be astonished; because a work shall be done in your days which no man sh...
We come now to the beginning of the direct history of the work, new in some important respects, that is, connected with Paul's mission by the immediate intervention of the Holy Ghost. It is not now Ch...
BEHOLD, YE DESPISERS,.... In Habakkuk 1:5 from whence these words are taken: we render it with others, "behold ye among the Heathen"; as if the word בגוים, was compounded of ב "in", and גוים, "nation...
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you. Ver. 41. _Behold, ye despisers_] These the Sc...
_Beware, therefore_ A weighty and reasonable admonition with which the apostle enforces the very important doctrine which he had just delivered. No reproof is, as yet, added to it: _lest that come upo...
A WORK; a work of desolating judgment; namely, the overthrow of the land by foreign enemies....
BEHOLD, YE DESPISERS, AND WONDER, AND PERISH; FOR I WORK A WORK IN YOUR DAYS, A WORK WHICH YE SHALL IN NO WISE BELIEVE, THOUGH A MAN DECLARE IT UNTO YOU....
The conclusion of the sermon:...
From this time our attention is drawn particularly to the work of Saul, whose name is in this chapter changed to Paul, meaning "little," for one who is the most greatly used of God is, in his own esti...
This is. quotation from Habakkuk 2:5. The point from the passage is that if men scoff and refuse to obey when God visits them, they will certainly perish. "The thing about which Habakkuk spoke was the...
38-41 Let all that hear the gospel of Christ, know these two things: 1. That through this Man, who died and rose again, is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. Your sins, though many and great,...
These words are cited from that place in Habakkuk, according to the reading of the Septuagint, St. Paul not being willing to alter the words, the Jews that were dispersed being so, used to that transl...
Acts 13:41 Behold G1492 (G5628) despisers G2707 G2532 Marvel G2296 (G5657) and G2532 perish G853 ...
PAUL AND HIS COMPANY PREACH IN PISIDIAN ANTIOCH. (13:13-52). Paul ‘and his company' (thus there were at least one or two others besides Mark) left Paphos and sailed across to Perga in Pamphylia. It wi...
PAUL'S MESSAGE (13:17-41). Paul's message divides into three parts. · In the first he declares the goodness and faithfulness of the One God, Who over long centuries, commencing with Abraham (‘chose o...
PAUL'S MESSAGE - PART 3. HE CALLS FOR A GENUINE RESPONSE TO GOD'S OFFER OF MERCY (13:38-41)....
_Paul's Sermon in the Synagogue of Antioch in Pisidia_, _17-41._ This discourse falls naturally into three divisions: _(a)_ Acts 13:17-22. A sketch of the grand old story of the chosen people till t...
Acts 13:41. BEHOLD, YOU DESPISERS, AND WONDER AND PERISH. The quotation is from the LXX. Version of Zechariah 1:5. The prophet in the first instance refers to an invasion of the land by the Chaldeans....
YE DESPISERS (ο καταφρονητα). Not in the Hebrew, but in the LXX. It is pertinent for Paul's purpose.PERISH (αφανισθητε). Or vanish away. First aorist passive imperative. Added by the LXX to the H...
WORK See (Habakkuk 1:5)....
Acts 13:14. _But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. And after reading of the law and the prophets,_ From whi...
Acts 13:13. _Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem._ «John» that is, John Mark, as we see by chapter 15...
Acts 13:13. _Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia; and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem. But when they departed from Perga, they came to Anti...
CONTENTS: Paul and Barnabas called. Satanic opposition from a sorcerer. Paul's sermon in the synagogue at Antioch. Opposition from Jews. Paul and Barnabas turn to Gentiles. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Ho...
Acts 13:1. _The church that was at Antioch,_ which was counted one of the five apostolic churches. It is the true church by way of eminence, the synagogue having degenerated into a state of warfare wi...
THAT IT IS THROUGH JESUS. See Acts 4:12 and note. IS SET FREE. Compare Galatians 5:1-6. THE LAW OF MOSES COULD NOT SET YOU FREE. Compare Hebrews 10:2-4. TAKE CARE, THEN. It is fatal to reject Christ!...
_Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia._ PERGA IN PAMPHYLIA Because Perga was little known Pamphylia is subjoined. It was an ancient city on the river Cest...
_The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers._ THE HOURS ON THE WORLD’S CLOCK 1. Moving slowly forward as the hours of the Eternal God, with whom a thousand years are as one day, and of the l...
_Beware therefore._ A SOLEMN WARNING TO THE UNGODLY We are, in this world, represented as being remarkably under the influence of self-love; but, with regard to the eternal future, the self-love of m...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 13:16 Paul’s sermon consisted of three parts: a sketch of OT history (vv. Acts 13:16), God’s ultimate provision in Jesus Christ (vv....
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 13:13. PAUL AND HIS COMPANY.—Note the two changes—first of Saul’s name, which is henceforth Paul, and next of Paul’s position in the mission as leader rather than as follower,...
EXPOSITION ACTS 13:1 _At Antioch., in the Church that was there _for _in the Church that was at Antioch, _A.V.; _prophets, _etc., for _certain prophets, _etc., A.V. and T.R.; _Barnabas, _etc., for _a...
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; Barnabas, Simeon that was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch,...
1 Peter 4:17; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Acts 13:47; Acts 22:21; Acts 3:23
Perish [α φ α ν ι σ θ η τ ε]. Lit., vanish. Declare [ε κ δ ι η γ η τ α ι]. Only here and ch. 14 3. See on shew, Luke 8:39. The word is a very strong expression for the fullest and clearest declaratio...
I work a work which ye will in nowise believe — This was originally spoken to those, who would not believe that God would ever deliver them from the power of the Chaldeans. But it is applicable to any...