Out of Stock
Overview
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE CHRISTIAN PROPHETS AT PHILIPPI. We have thus1 explained two difficulties of the three which have hitherto puzzled the commentators in the narrative of Acts xvi. The first is the meaning of the spirit of Jesus. The second?which indeed has baffled them?is first of the portion Macedonia, as applied to Philippi, and the third remains. What is the meaning of the words, where we supposed, or were thinking, that a place of prayer was (Acts xvi. 13) ? This is Westcott and Hort's reading, and has the best testimony. The Sinaitic MS. does indeed give us a remarkable variant, where he supposed, presumably meaning Paul. The Western recension gives us where it seemed (likely). Blass has conjectured by a change of one letter where they were wont to be engaged in prayer. But this is pure conjecture and testifies to the difficulty of the reading where we supposed rather than to its unsoundness: the MSS. should not be given up if we find a reasonable sense in what they say. And I think we can find the sense in accordance with the observations already given and in accordance with the prophetic ideas which especially at this time ruled the minds of Paul and Silas. We have seen that they were finding much fulfilment in their visit to Macedonia and that they did not and could not hesitate to take a text of the Old Testament, especially the Book of Jesus, upon its own merits and apart from its context. Possessed of the conviction that Philippi was their Jericho, first city of the Portion of Benjamin, although the complete fulfilment had not yet been vouchsafed to them, there was one place which they naturally sought to identify, and this was Gilgal on the banks of the Jordan. They- proceeded in their journey as the writer of the Acts is careful to tell us, crvi/Sdovre, p...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217797696 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0217797695 |
| Weight | 1.05 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 In |
| List Price | $15.98 |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Pages | 324 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
View All Offers
Sort by:
Price
