Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Ver. 29. We ought to obey God rather than men] This is a principle granted and grafted in us by nature. I love and embrace you, O Athenians (said Socrates, in his Apology), but yet I will obey God rather than you. See Trapp on " Act 4:19 " See Trapp on " Mat 22:21 " The article is twice repeated when our Saviour speaks of God, more than when of Caesar; to show that our special care should be to give God his due.

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