16Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-18)In these verses we have, I. A miraculous cure wrought by Paul at Lystra upon a cripple that had been lame from his birth, such a one as was miraculously cured by Peter and John, Acts 3:2. That introduced the gospel among the Jews, this among the Gentiles; both that and this were designed to represent the impotency of all the children of men in spiritual things: they are lame from their birth, till…
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