7Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
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Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: …
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. …
And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.
Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The apostle is here reproving a very corrupt practice. He shows how much mischief there is in the sin of prosopolepsia — respect of persons , which seemed to be a very growing evil in the churches of Christ even in those early ages, and which, in these after-times, has sadly corrupted and divided Christian nations and societies. Here we have, I. A caution against this sin laid down in general: My…
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