Acts 6

Acts 6:6

Peter answered the people - Who were running together, and inquiring into the circumstances of the fact.

Acts 6:7

The God of our fathers - This was wisely introduced in the beginning of his discourse, that it might appear they taught no new religion, inconsistent with that of Moses, and were far from having the least design to divert their regards from the God of Israel. Hath glorified his Son - By this miracle, whom ye delivered up - When God had given him to you, and when ye ought to have received him as a most precious treasure, and to have preserved him with all your power.

Acts 6:8

Ye renounced the Holy One - Whom God had marked out as such; and the Just One - Even in the judgment of Pilate.

Acts 6:10

His name - Himself: his power and love. The faith which is by him - Of which he is the giver, as well as the object.

Acts 6:11

And now, brethren - A word full of courtesy and compassion, I know - He speaks to their heart, that through ignorance ye did it - which lessened, though it could not take away, the guilt. As did also your rulers - The prejudice lying from the authority of the chief priests and elders, he here removes, but with great tenderness. He does not call them our, but your rulers. For as the Jewish dispensation ceased at the death of Christ, consequently so did the authority of its rulers.

Acts 6:12

But God - Who was not ignorant, permitted this which he had foretold, to bring good out of it.

Acts 6:13

Be converted - Be turned from sin and Satan unto God. See Acts 26:20. But this term, so common in modern writings, very rarely occurs in Scripture: perhaps not once in the sense we now use it, for an entire change from vice to holiness. That the times of refreshing - Wherein God largely bestows his refreshing grace, may come - To you also. To others they will assuredly come, whether ye repent or no.

Acts 6:14

And he may send - The apostles generally speak of our Lord’s second coming, as being just at hand. Who was before appointed - Before the foundation of the world.

Acts 6:15

Till the times of the restitution of all things - The apostle here comprises at once the whole course of the times of the New Testament, between our Lord’s ascension and his coming in glory. The most eminent of these are the apostolic age, and that of the spotless Church, which will consist of all the Jews and Gentiles united, after all persecutions and apostacies are at an end.