Opening and alleging (διανοιγων κα παρατιθεμενος). Opening the Scriptures, Luke means, as made plain by the mission and message of…

Opening. dianoigwn. See Luke 24:32. The word means to explain or to unfold. It is usually applied to that which is shut, such as …

Opening and alleging.—The latter word is used in the sense of bringing forward proofs, and the two words imply an argumen…

In portraying the extension of the Gospel to the main cities bordering the Aegean Sea, Luke lays special emphasis on the fact that Paul’s preaching…

Opening. In this place, he describes the sum and subject of the disputation. He sets forth two points concerning Christ: that He must have died and…

Opening
That is, the Scriptures of the Old Testament, explaining and expounding them, giving the true sense of them;…

The aim and scope of Paul's preaching and arguing was to prove that Jesus is the Christ. He necessarily had to suffer for us, because he could not …