Acts 3:15. The Prince of life. Life here, in its highest sense, is intended eternal life (see John 1:4; John 5:26; John 2:25); but it includes also physical life. Alford even suggests the possibility that the words may contain an allusion to the great miracle [the raising of Lazarus], which was the immediate cause of the enmity of the rulers to Jesus.

Whereof we are witnesses. After an unfolding of the marvellous connection between the sacred Israelitic prophecies and the Life and Passion of Jesus of Nazareth, when the apostles came to speak of the resurrection and of the risen glorified Jesus, they would constantly say here simply, grandly (einfach grossartig (Meyer)), ‘and of this we are witnesses, for we have seen Him risen.'

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