The Axe of Acts 3:22-23

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The Creation Concept


John the Baptist

J. A. Alexander

Albert Barnes

Johann Albrecht Bengel

Darrell L. Bock

William Burkitt

John Calvin

J. B. Coffman

Thomas L. Constable

J. N. Darby

John Gill

William Godbey

Heinrich Meyer

Matthew Poole

Charles C. Ryrie

Stephen Sizer

John Wesley

John Gill

Gill wrote:

"And it shall come to pass, that every soul Every person, man or woman: which will not hear that prophet; neither believe what he says, nor do what he commands; or as it is in (Deuteronomy 18:19) "will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name": for he that hears not him, hearkens not to God, in whose name he speaks, and whose word he delivers, shall be destroyed from among the people; in the Hebrew text it is, "I will require it of him"; the Hebrew word, (wmem) , there used, by having different points, may be rendered "of him", or "from his people", which seems to be the reason of this difference: and requiring often intends punishment, or a cutting off; or as Aben Ezra explains it here, "death by the hand of heaven;" that is, immediate destruction from God; and so Maimonides says, he that transgresses the words of that prophet, is guilty of death by the hand of heaven; and which was remarkably fulfilled in the Jewish nation, for their rejection of Jesus as the true Messiah, and that prophet.


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