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Verse Acts 22:14. _AND SEE THAT JUST ONE_] The Lord Jesus, called the
_Just_ _One_, in opposition to the Jews, who crucified him as a
_malefactor_: Acts 7:52, Acts 7:52. This is an additional proof t...
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SHOULDEST KNOW HIS WILL - His will in the plan of salvation, and in
regard to your future life.
AND SEE THAT JUST ONE - The Messiah. See the notes on Acts 3:14. As
Paul was to be an apostle, and as it...
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CHAPTER 22
_ 1. The Address of the Apostle (Acts 22:1)._
2. The Answer from the Mob, and Paul's Appeal to His Roman citizenship
(Acts 22:22).
What a scene it was! On the stairs, midway between the t...
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PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE JEWS. The opening of the speech is like that of
Stephen (Acts 7:2). In 2 Corinthians 11:22 Paul attests his full
membership of the Jewish people, and having lived many years in
Pa...
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THE DEFENCE OF EXPERIENCE (Acts 22:1-10)...
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"Because I was not able to see because of the glory of that light, I
came into Damascus led by the hand by those who were with me. And
Ananias, a pious man as regards the Law, a man to whose character...
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CHOSEN. destined. Greek. _procheirizomai._ Only here and Acts 26:16.
Not the same as in Acts 1:2, &c.
THAT THOU SHOULDEST KNOW. to know. Greek. _ginosko._ App-132.
WILL. Greek. _thelema._ App-102....
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_The God of our fathers_, &c. Ananias spake naturally as one Jew to
another. At the commencement of the Christian Church there was no
thought of a rupture with Judaism, and nothing is more to be notic...
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Ὁ ΘΕῸΣ ΤΩ͂Ν ΠΑΤΈΡΩΝ ἩΜΩ͂Ν, _the God of our
fathers_. Ananias spake naturally as one Jew to another. At the
commencement of the Christian Church there was no thought of a rupture
with Judaism, and noth...
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Acts 22:1-21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE...
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_PAUL'S CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY ACTS 22:6-16:_ As Paul drew near to
Damascus there was a bright light from heaven that flashed around him.
This light caused him to fall to the ground. He heard a vo...
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AND SEE THAT JUST ONE,— Some commentators refer this to a future
vision of Christ, and a future commission to be received from him; but
it clearly appears from St. Paul's own narration, that he had al...
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c.
Paul addresses the Jewish mob. Acts 22:1-21.
Acts 22:1
Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you.
Acts 22:2
And when they heard that he spake unto them in the Hebrew l...
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See notes on verse 3...
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And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou
shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the
voice of his mouth.
And he said, The God of our fathers hath cho...
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40 God acts in marvelous ways. Human opposition works out his purposes
quite as effectively as human help. What better means could be devised
to get all Jerusalem as well as representatives from the d...
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22:14 voice (b-27) See Note, ch. 9.4....
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THAT JUST ONE] see Acts 3:14; Acts 7:52...
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ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE
1-21. St Paul's Speech to the People. St. Paul was accused of (1)
hostility to the Jews, (2) contempt for the Jewish Law, and (3) the
desecration of the Temple. He answers all these...
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 22
PAUL SPEAKS TO THE CROWD, 22:1-21
V1 ‘Brothers and fathers, listen to me! I will explain what
happened.’
V2 The crowd became even quieter. T...
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THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS... — The report of what was said by Ananias
is somewhat fuller than in Acts 9:17, and gives in outline what had
been spoken to him by the Lord. It is obviously implied in Acts 9...
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ὁ Θεὸς τῶν πατ. ἡμῶν : again a conciliatory
phrase, _cf._ Acts 7:32, so St. Peter in Acts 3:13; Acts 5:30.
προεχειρ.: “hath appointed,” only in Acts in N.T., Acts
3:20, and in
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HOW HIS LIFE WAS CHANGED
Acts 22:1
What a sermon Paul preached! His pulpit, the steps that ascended from
the Temple level to the Castle of Antonia. His audience, the frenzied
crowds who filled the co...
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Paul's defense as here recorded is a rare and perfect example of
Christian argument. He was defending his devotion to work among the
Gentiles. In that defense the last word he was permitted to utter w...
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In Damascus, a devout, God-fearing man came to Paul, restored his
sight and told him God had appointed him to know his will, see the
righteous one and hear his voice. He further said God planned for h...
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_Shouldst...see the Just One. Our Saviour appeared to St. Paul, as it
is said; (chap. ix. 7.) and he is divers times, both in the Prophets
and in the Testament, called the Just One. (Witham) --- To se...
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Paul now proceeds to vindicate himself by relating his experience,
giving his Cilician nativity and his education in Jerusalem at the
feet of Gamaliel, the champion theologian, his identity with the
p...
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I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia,
yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught
according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was...
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The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an
episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to
Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
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14._The God of our fathers. _As nothing is more fit to provoke us
joyfully to go forward toward God, than when we know that God doth
prevent us with his free goodness, that he may call us back from...
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He departs therefore to Jerusalem; and when there, he goes to the
house of James, and all the elders assemble. Paul relates to them the
work of God among the Gentiles. They turn to their Judaism, of w...
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AND HE SAID, THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS HATH CHOSEN THEE,.... From all
eternity, in his everlasting purposes and decrees; or "he hath taken
thee into his hand"; in order to form, and fit, and qualify him...
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And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the
hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.
12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good
repor...
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_And as I made my journey, &c., about noon_ For all was done in the
face of the sun; _suddenly there shone a great light_ By whatever
method God reveals himself to us, we shall have everlasting cause...
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SHOULDEST-SEE THAT JUST ONE; Jesus Christ. Chap Acts 3:14; Acts 7:52.
See also note to chap Acts 9:17. Persecutors of Christ and his cause
are sometimes made his cordial friends, and eminently instrum...
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Paul and Ananias:...
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AND HE SAID, THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS HATH CHOSEN THEE THAT THOU
SHOULDEST KNOW HIS WILL AND SEE THAT JUST ONE, AND SHOULDEST HEAR THE
VOICE OF HIS MOUTH....
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The crowd having been quietened, Paul speaks with fullest respect for
those he addresses, and doing so in the Hebrew language, he attracts
more serious attention. He has been practically convicted by...
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THEN HE SAID, ‘THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS HAS CHOSEN YOU THAT YOU SHOULD
KNOW HIS WILL, AND SEE THE JUST ONE, AND HEAR THE VOICE OF HIS MOUTH.
1. God has chosen Paul for a special purpose.
2. Paul will:...
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This sight was instantly restored; another proof that what had
happened on the road was an actual encounter with God. Acts 22:14 Paul
now begins to explain why Jesus had appeared to him. "The God of o...
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12-21 The apostle goes on to relate how he was confirmed in the
change he had made. The Lord having chosen the sinner, that he should
know his will, he is humbled, enlightened, and brought to the
kno...
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OLBGrk;
THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS; nothing could please the people better than to
hear God so styled; for this they gloried in, above all things, that
they and theirs had God to their Father, 1 THESSALON...
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Acts 22:14 Then G1161 said G2036 (G5627) God G2316 our G2257 fathers
G3962 chosen G4400 (G5662) you...
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“And he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know
his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his
mouth.' ”
And Ananias, this pious and respected godly Jew, had told...
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Acts 22:14. THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS HATH CHOSEN THEE. Another appeal to
Jewish thought. Paul here reproduces what ‘the young man whose name
was Saul,' heard from the lips of the first martyr Stephen tw...
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HATH APPOINTED THEE
(προεχειρισατο). First aorist middle indicative of
προχειριζω, old verb to put forth into one's hands, to take
into one's hands beforehand, to plan, propose, determine. In the N....
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Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I
make now unto you. (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew
tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith),_
Men...
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CONTENTS: Paul's defense before the multitude. Recounts his
conversion.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Ananias, chief captain.
CONCLUSION: God's servants who are set upon with rage and fury because
o...
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Acts 22:1. _Men, brethren, and fathers;_ that is, men of mixed nations
assembled at the feast. The persecutors had said, men of Israel, help.
_Brethren,_ religious persons of the stock of Israel. _Fat...
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A MAN NAMED ANANIAS. He was a Christian (Acts 9:10), but kept the Law
strictly. BROTHER SAUL, SEE AGAIN! See Acts 9:17-18 and notes. THE GOD
OF OUR ANCESTORS. Compare Acts 7:32;...
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_Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence._
PAUL’S DEFENCE
1. Whether we consider the man, the circumstances, the speech, or the
effect produced, this address is worthy to be ranked among the...
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_And one Ananias … said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee._
THE DIVINE ORDINATION OF HUMAN LIFE
The verb here translated, “chosen,” only occurs in this form in
one other place (Acts 26:16), w...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 22:12 For his Jewish hearers, Paul stressed the
faithfulness of ANANIAS.
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 22:6 begins the second part of the defence (Acts 22:6). WAS COME
NIGH should be _was drawing near._ The narration is the same as in
Acts 9:3 and...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 22:1
_Brethren _for _men, brethren, _A.V. (Acts 7:2, note); the for my,
A.V.; _now make _for _make now, _A.V. THE DEFENSE;
ἀπολογία This is the technical word in classical Greek for...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the twenty-second chapter of Acts.
Pick up on Paul where we left him last week in that very dramatic
moment. Paul in spite of repeated warnings from the Holy Spirit...
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1 Chronicles 12:17; 1 Chronicles 29:18; 1 Corinthians 11:23; 1
Corinthians 15:3;...
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The God of our fathers - Just One. A conciliatory touch in Paul's
speech, mentioning both God and Christ by their Jewish names. Compare
ch. Acts 3:14; Acts 7:52.
Hath chosen [π ρ ο ε χ ε ι ρ ι σ α τ ο...