...REPENTANCE. 21. For thefe Caufes the jfe-ias caught me in the Temple, and went about to kill me. 22. Having therefore obtained HELP of GOD, I continue unto this Day, WITNESSING both to Small and Great, laying none other Things than thofe which the PROPHETS and Jlfofes did fay SHOULD COME : 23. That CHRIST...

...alive, spoken of by the apostle. Christ never rose from the death of sin ; but it was necessary that he should suffer and that he should be the first, that should rise frorn the dead. And the whole scope of the chapter is manifestly to prove a literal resurrection. We...

...conversion and labours, when he comes to the subjects of his preaching, all that he says is, " Having " obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, "...dead, and should shew light unto the " people, and to the Gentiles." V. 22, 23. It appears from this, if his representation of his own preaching is true...

...first-fruits. Saint Paul in his apology before King Agrippa pleaded in defence of his doctrine, that he said none other things than those which the Prophets and...should be the first that should rise from the dead. Now these things are no where said by Moses in the letter ; therefore they were foretold figuratively...

...witness I bear, is of a nature that my accusers, as disciples of Moses, are bound to receive; for I say " none other things than those which the Prophets and...the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles." Acts xxvi. 22, 23. If then, as St. Paul affirms, Moses preached Christ crucified,...

...ahc! Moses did say should come ; 23 That Christ should suffei, and that he should be the first thai should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles, 24 IT And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou...

...Zechariah and earlier prophets. But the attempt of Paul to convince his fellow-countrymen that he was ' saying none other things than those ' which the prophets and Moses did say should come ' has not been repeated by the doctors of Roman Christendom. It is not our intention to attempt anything...

...for repentance. 21 For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me. 22 Having, therefore, obtained help of God, I continue...those which the prophets and Moses did say should come ; 23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and...

...for repentance. 2 1 For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me. 22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue...witnessing both to small and great, saying none other tKings than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come : 23 That Christ should suffer,...

...to kill me : 22. But having obtained help of God, (agreeably to the promise made to me by Christ,) I continue . unto this day, witnessing both to small*...those which the prophets and Moses did say should come i VoL 3.] 3 H Bishop Pearce thinks that the name of Moses is an interpolation in this place, because...