Acts 8:35. Then Philip opened his mouth. An oriental expression which occurs ordinarily before grave and weighty words (see Acts 10:34; Job 3:1; Job 32:20).

And began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. Philip showed the strange and marvellous correspondence between the many descriptions of the Messiah of the prophets and the now well-known life of Jesus of Nazareth, beginning his inspired teaching with an exposition of the passage of Isaiah which the Ethiopian was then reading.

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