Acts 2:47

Acts 2:47. Added to the church. The balance of authorities is rather against admitting ‘to the church' in the text. The sense of the passage, if the word be omitted, would remain unaltered. The word ἰϰϰλησία, church, is a favourite one with the author of the Acts. It occurs in this book (says Wordsworth) about twenty times.

Such as should be saved. The Greek word here, τοὺς σωζομένους. should be rendered simply the saved that is, those who were escaping day by day from the evil around them, and taking refuge in the Ark of the Church (Wordsworth). The English Version has been charged here with a strong Calvinistic bias, implying that those who were predestined to be saved were being brought gradually into the pale of salvation. It is, however, clear that no doctrinal prejudice was the source of the error here as all the early English versions except that of Wickliffe have it.