Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Acts 13:40
(16) Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
(16) The benefits of God turn to the utter undoing of those that condemn them.
(16) Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
(16) The benefits of God turn to the utter undoing of those that condemn them.
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Verse 40. _BEWARE - LEST THAT COME UPON YOU_, c.] If you reject these benefits, now freely offered to you in this preaching of Christ crucified, you may expect such judgment from the hand of God as y...
BEWARE, THEREFORE - Avoid what is threatened. It will come on some; and Paul exhorted his hearers to beware lest it should come on them. It was the more important to caution them against this danger,...
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...
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...
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...
BEWARE. See. Greek. _blepo._ App-133. LEST. Greek. _me._ App-105. UPON. Greek. _epi._ App-104. But the texts omit "upon you"....
_lest that come upon you_ viz. a moral and spiritual overthrow as great as the destruction which the Chaldæans and Nebuchadnezzar wrought upon the land and people at the time of the Babylonish captivi...
ἐφ' ὑμᾶς omitted with אBD. _Vulg_. ‘vobis.’ 40. ΜῊ ἘΠΈΛΘΗΙ, _lest there come about_, viz. a moral and spiritual overthrow as great as the destruction which the Chaldæans and Nebuchadnezzar wrought up...
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...
ΟΎΝ (G3767) следовательно. Делает вывод из предыдущего, ΜΉ (G3361) чтобы не. Отр. частица, которая используется для выражения отр. цели (RG, 987). ΈΠΈΛΘΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΕΠΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1904) случа...
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...
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...
40, 41. This passage in Paul's speech was most unwelcome to his Jewish hearers. It was an express disparagement of the law of Moses such as always fell harshly upon Jewish ears. We consequently see in...
Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; BEWARE THEREFORE, LEST THAT COME UPON YOU WHICH IS SPOKEN OF IN THE PROPHETS. Though the following quotation is from...
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...
13:40 [you], (k-15) See Habakkuk 1:5 ....
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...
IN THE PROPHETS] The particular prophecy quoted is Habakkuk 1:5. Habakkuk had threatened the Jews with destruction by the Chaldaeans (Babylonians). The passage, as applied by St. Paul, looks forward 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,...
WHICH IS SPOKEN OF IN THE PROPHETS. — This formula of citation seems to have been common, as in Acts 7:42, in the case of quotations from the Minor Prophets, which were regarded, as it were, as a sing...
ἐν τοῖς προφ., _cf._ Luke 24:44, and Acts 24:14; John 6:45. ἐπέλθῃ : quite Lucan in this sense, _cf._ Acts 8:24;...
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...
See then that you reject not this divine Saviour, lest what has been denounced by the prophets fall upon your incredulous heads: _I will abandon the holy place which I entrusted to you; I will cease t...
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...
40._Take heed that that come not upon you. _Because he had to do with stiff-necked men, or at least there were diverse in the company which were stiff-necked (as if he meant with a hammer to soften th...
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...
BEWARE THEREFORE,.... Of rejecting the Gospel, and those excellent truths of it; since forgiveness of sin and a justifying righteousness are said to be had in no other way, but in and through Christ;...
Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; Ver. 40. _Beware therefore lest_] Ministers must mix law and gospel together in their discourses. Sour and sweet make th...
_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...
WHICH IS SPOKEN OF IN THE PROPHETS; Habakkuk 1:5. The apostle follows the Greek version of the Seventy, which agrees for substance with the Hebrew....
BEWARE THEREFORE LEST THAT COME UPON YOU WHICH IS SPOKEN OF IN THE PROPHETS,...
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...
BEWARE THEREFORE, LEST WHAT HAS BEEN SPOKEN IN THE PROPHETS COME UPON YOU: 1. The Old Testament Scriptures offer promises, prophecies, and hope. 2. They also issue severe warnings. Paul has shown th...
Yet great blessings bring an equal condemnation upon those who reject these blessings. "The reason Paul did not, like Peter, urge his hearers to repent and be baptized, that they might be in Christ an...
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,...
Habakkuk 1:5. He cautions these Jews, lest the same thing threatened by the prophet to their fathers come also upon them; for sin is as odious unto God as ever, and God is as jealous of his honour, wh...
40, 41. This passage in Paul's speech was most unwelcome to his Jewish hearers. It was an express disparagement of the law of Moses such as always fell harshly upon Jewish ears. We consequently see in...
Acts 13:40 Beware G991 (G5720) therefore G3767 lest G3361 spoken G2046 (G5772) in G1722 prophets G4396 come...
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)....
“Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets, ‘Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, if...
_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 13:40. IN THE PROPHETS. The general warnings contained in that volume of the Old Testament Scriptures so named by the Jews. They are to beware lest the terrible denunciations of the old prophets...
BEWARE THEREFORE (βλεπετε ουν). The warning is pertinent. Perhaps Paul noticed anger on the faces of some of the rabbis.LEST THERE COME UPON YOU (μη επελθη). Second aorist active subjunctive with...
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,...
Habakkuk 1:5; Hebrews 12:25; Hebrews 2:3; Hebrews 3:12; Isaiah 29:14;...
Beware — A weighty and seasonable admonition. No reproof is as yet added to it....