47Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
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And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.
And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them. …
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 42-47)We often speak of the primitive church, and appeal to it, and to the history of it; in these verses we have the history of the truly primitive church , of the first days of it, its state of infancy indeed, but, like that, the state of its greatest innocence . I. They kept close to holy ordinances, and abounded in all instances of piety and devotion, for Christianity, admitted in the power of it, w…
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