The Theological Works of the First Viscount Barrington Including the Miscellan
The Theological Works of the First Viscount Barrington Including the Miscellan
John Shute Barrington Barrington
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Luke, as the great harvest of the proselyte converts, that en- sued on the conversion of Cornelius and his fami- ly, who were the first-fruits of these Gentiles. This readins, - and version restores i^ood sense ' Acts xiii. 45. Xiv. 11. 13, U. IS, Ip. Xvi. !22. Xvii. 8. 13. Xix. '. '6'. 33 35. ' Ibid. Vi. 1. Whe}2 the proselytes were first addressed. 283 and order to St. Luke's history, and force to his remark. For then it stands thus : " Having entered on the history of the conversion of the p...roselytes of the gate, in the account of Corne- lius and his family ; ' and having given an account of the expostulation of those that were of the circumcision with him on that account "" of Peter's justification ; ^ and of their acquies- cence, on seeing plainly that God had then granted, or begun to grant, repentance unto life unto the Gentiles (that is, the proselytes of the gate"^), immediately adds, ^ that upon this, though they that were scattered abroad upon Stephen's persecution had hitherto only preach- ed to the Jews, notwithstanding that they had travelled as far as Phoenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch (some of which were men of Cyprus and Cyrene) ; yet, on the occasion of the former transaction, in relation to Cornelius and his family, and the acquiescence of the whole church at Jerusalem in it, they being at Antioch, now begin to speak unto the Gentiles" (that is, the same sort of Gentiles that had been dis- coursed of in all this and the preceding chapter; that is, proselytes of the gate).
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