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The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all men everywhere should repent,
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An End to Ignorance
Scholars clarify that God "overlooking" past ignorance does not mean He approved of idolatry. Rather, it signifies a period where He withheld immediate, universal judgment. Commentators describe this as God allowing humanity's need for revelation to become obvious. With Christ's arrival, this era of overlooking has decisively ended.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And the times of this ignorance. The long period when people were ignorant of the true God, and when they worshipped stocks and stones. Pa…
The times of ignorance (τους χρονους της αγνοιας). The times before full knowledge of God came in Jesus Christ. Paul uses the very…
19th Century
Anglican
And the times of this ignorance God winked at.—Better, perhaps, overlooked, as the English phrase, though vivid,…
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The climax of the address focuses on the progressive unfolding of redemption and the apex of that redemption in Jesus Christ. Since we are God’s “o…
16th Century
Protestant
And the times of this ignorance. Because it is commonly thought that whatever has been practiced for a long time and is approved by the co…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the times of this ignorance God winked at Not that he approved of, or encouraged such blindness and folly, as ap…
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Here we have a sermon addressed to heathens, who worshipped false gods and were without the true God in the world. For them, the scope of the disco…
