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Voluntary Generosity, Not Communism
Commentators are clear that this was not a command to abolish private property. Instead, it was a voluntary and radical generosity fueled by love. Believers held their possessions loosely, ready to share with anyone in the community who had a need. As scholars like Calvin and Barnes note, this was a practical expression of unity, not a required economic system.
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Albert Barnes
On Acts 2:44
18th Century
Theologian
All that believed. This means those who believed that Jesus was the Messiah; for that was the distinguishing point by which they were know…
AT Robertson
On Acts 2:44
Were together (ησαν επ το αυτο). Some MSS. ησαν κα (were and). But they were together in the same place as in 2:1.
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Charles Ellicott
On Acts 2:44
19th Century
Bishop
All that believed were together. . . .—The writer dwells with a manifest delight on this picture of what seemed to him th…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Acts 2:41–47
19th Century
Preacher
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. And they continu…
John Calvin
On Acts 2:44
16th Century
Theologian
Regarding the phrase And all, while I have translated it as joined together, the wording is, word for word in Saint Luke, Int…
John Gill
On Acts 2:44
17th Century
Pastor
And all that believed were together
Not in one place, for no one house could hold them all, their number was now so …
Matthew Henry
On Acts 2:42–47
17th Century
Minister
In these verses, we have the history of the truly primitive church, of its first days; this was indeed its state of infancy, yet, like infancy itse…