Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Acts 13:27

Acts 13:27. For they that dwell at Jerusalem. For. Paul went on to say, in that proud home of our common faith, in the holy city, our rulers and priests have rejected Him. They have ignored those voices of the prophets which are ever ringing in their ears; therefore to you now, Jews of the dispersion and Gentiles who fear God, the apostles of the Lord are sent with the glad tidings of salvation. In other words, we find the same truth expressed in Acts 13:46, ‘Lo, we turn to the Gentiles;' and years after, again in the imperial city, we hear Paul telling the Jews of Rome that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and that they will bear it (Acts 28:28). The righteous judgment of God in all its awful severity was shown twenty- two or twenty-three years later in the destruction of the holy city and in the final dispersion of the Jewish race.

Which are read every Sabbath day. How wildly foolish does the conduct of the Jewish rulers seem to those who calmly review the whole story of the chosen people! For these very priests and scribes, who gloried in their reverential care for the ‘law and the prophets,' to fall into the awful sin these holy writings foreshadowed, seems an act of blind folly almost inconceivable.

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Acts 13:27

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