Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Spirit through Isaiah the prophet unto your fathers," — Acts 28:25 (ASV)
After Paul had spoken one word.—The tone of vehement indignation implies a patience almost exhausted by the long contest with prejudice and unbelief. He cannot refrain from reproducing the conviction which he had already expressed in the Epistle to the Romans, that blindness in part had happened to Israel, that a remnant only were faithful, and that the rest were hardened (Romans 11:7–25).