Acts 11:17. The like gift as he gave unto us. See note on Acts 11:15.

Who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, rather ‘as having believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.' It was in virtue of faith, as Bengel says, and not because of circumcision, that they themselves had received the Holy Ghost. Hence the like faith among Gentiles was entitled to the like blessing. We should mark the stress laid upon faith in the narrative above. See Acts 10:43, comp. Acts 15:9.

What was I, that I could withstand God? The Authorised Version is hardly adequate. It would be better thus, ‘Who was I, that I should be able to hinder God?' The whole had been so evidently God's doing, that Peter felt as nothing in the presence of these great facts.

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