For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
Isaiah speaks there chiefly of Christ, yet many things attributed to Him belong also to His ministers, not all, for certain titles are His alone, wicked sacrilege to claim otherwise. Christ is our Righteousness; we are merely His instruments. He appointed Himself our teacher and has placed pastors in His stead to speak from His mouth, so His authority remains whole and He is heard through them. Paul rightly applies Isaiah's words of Gospel preaching to his own calling.
AI summary
Those Jews who left the synagogue confessed their unbelief as plainly as believers confess their faith by staying. They stopped their ears like the deaf adder, resolved not to be convinced. God never leaves any until they first leave Him.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 13:42-52
But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women,.... These seem not to be Jewish women; could they be thought to be such, they might easily be concluded to be of the sect of the Pharisees, which was the strictest and most devout sect among the Jews; for there were women Pharisees, as well as men; so we read of , "a woman Pharisee"...