30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
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Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, …
And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-31)We have here St. Paul’s sermon at Athens. Divers sermons we have had, which the apostles preached to the Jews, or such Gentiles as had an acquaintance with and veneration for the Old Testament, and were worshippers of the true and living God; and all they had to do with them was to open and allege that Jesus is the Christ ; but here we have a sermon to heathens, that worshipped false gods, and wer…
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