12Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
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Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, …
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.
According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-18)In these verses the apostle draws two inferences from what he had said about the Old and New Testament:— I. Concerning the duty of the ministers of the gospel to use great plainness or clearness of speech. They ought not, like Moses, to put a veil upon their faces, or obscure and darken those things which they should make plain. The gospel is a more clear dispensation than the law; the things of G…
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