this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, “‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.’
Paul speaks of natural children born from the holy fathers, not an allegory, as some brain-sick men dream, but real kindred. The promise stands: I will be thy God and the God of thy seed. Yet the boughs remain holy only if they do not degenerate through their own infidelity; faith, not flesh alone, makes one truly a child of Abraham.
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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
David served the will of God in his generation, then fell asleep by God's decree, death is but a long sleep from which none wake until Christ returns. No work is done in the grave; therefore, whatever we find to do, do it in life.
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