In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
Men have wandered in darkness for ages, yes, but do not let that long prescription of error stand against the truth of God when it appears. Blindness has drowned all peoples; yet God gives light to you now. Your eyes must open.
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This cripple, lame from birth and never able to walk, represents our spiritual impotency until God's grace strengthens us. He heard Paul preach and believed the apostles had divine power to heal him; that faith Paul perceived and acted upon, working a cure that testified to the gospel's power among the Gentiles.
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Commenting on Acts 14:8-18
God left the Gentiles to their own imaginations, idolatry, superstition, whatever their hearts devised, without written law or prophets to turn them back. He gave them no license; they sinned willfully. But now He sends His ministers among all nations to reclaim them to Christ.
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