Watch out, then, that what was spoken by the prophets does not happen to you:
Paul had to deal with stubborn men, so he added rebuke to doctrine. If they had been willing to obey, he would have sweetly drawn them to Christ; but their sluggishness and willfulness made him speak more sharply, as all must who despise Christ's grace must hear God's judgment denounced. He leaves room for repentance by exhorting them to take heed, yet tells them plainly that God's vengeance is near unless they beware in time.
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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
Now when the congregation was broken up,.... Or "the synagogue"; not the place, but the people that met in it; when they were "dismissed", as the Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions render it; either in a disorderly manner, through the offence the Jews took at Paul's preaching; or if in an orderly way, this was done by "the interpreter"; so it is said (w), that "R.