And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.
The people's fury could hardly be checked even by such urgent words, and no wonder. Idolaters are always sick with the same disease: they want religion on their own terms, subject to their will and pleasure. They would sooner rage like beasts than submit to truth that contradicts their desires.
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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
They spoke of themselves, of the living God, His creation, His providence, and still the crowd pressed to sacrifice. The resistance was absolute, the effort to dissuade them immense. Such was their resolve.
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