The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land.
Paul proves he teaches no novelty; the same God who bound Himself to Abraham's seed and revealed Himself to the fathers is the One he proclaims. He grounds their faith in the law and prophets so it stands firm, yet shows that God's choice of Abraham rested not on Abraham's worth, he was obscure and an idolater, but on God's free love alone.
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Luke passes over Perga in silence, though Diana's temple stood there, because the whole world could not contain all that might be written. Paul and Barnabas went straight to the synagogue at Antioch, not to curry favor with magistrates, but to the Jews themselves, proving their true care for their souls. This was always the way: to show how the New Testament flows directly from the Old, which the Jews already held sacred.
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Commenting on Acts 13:14-41
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were chosen to be God's peculiar people, and He raised them to dignity even during their Egyptian bondage. That deliverance came not by human strength but by the display of His mighty power, expressed as a high arm, nothing less could have broken them free.
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