Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
Verse Takeaways
1
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.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Acts
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
Commentaries
7
Albert Barnes
On Acts 17:30
18th Century
Theologian
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…
AT Robertson
On Acts 17:30
The times of ignorance (τους χρονους της αγνοιας). The times before full knowledge of God came in Jesus Christ. Paul uses the very…
Charles Ellicott
On Acts 17:30
19th Century
Bishop
And the times of this ignorance God winked at.—Better, perhaps, overlooked, as the English phrase, though vivid,…
Go Ad-Free
Go ad-free and create your own bookmark library
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Acts 17:30
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…
John Calvin
On Acts 17:30
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Acts 17:30
17th Century
Pastor
And the times of this ignorance God winked at
Not that he approved of, or encouraged such blindness and folly, as ap…
Matthew Henry
On Acts 17:22–31
17th Century
Minister
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…