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The Ultimate Irony
Commentators highlight the brilliance of Paul's defense. He argues that the Christian hope he preaches—the resurrection and the Messiah—is the very same hope that the Jewish nation has fervently pursued for centuries. The profound irony is that he is being accused by the very people whose deepest, most ancient hope he proclaims as fulfilled.
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Albert Barnes
On Acts 26:7
18th Century
Theologian
Unto which promise. To the fulfillment of this promise, they hope to come; that is, they hope and believe that the promise will be fulfill…
AT Robertson
On Acts 26:7
Our twelve tribes (το δωδεκαφυλον ημων). A word found only here in N.T. and in Christian and Jewish writings, though δωδεκαμηνον (…
Charles Ellicott
On Acts 26:7
19th Century
Bishop
Our twelve tribes.—The noun is strictly a neuter adjective: our twelve-tribed nation. It will be noted that St. Paul, lik…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Acts 26:4–7
19th Century
Preacher
My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; which knew me from the beginning…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Acts 26:7
It was not in spite of his Jewish heritage but because of it, Paul insisted, that he believed and proclaimed what he did. So he began the body of h…
John Calvin
On Acts 26:7
16th Century
Theologian
Whereunto our twelve tribes. Paul complains before Agrippa that the state of the Church has come to such a point that the priests oppose t…
John Gill
On Acts 26:7
17th Century
Pastor
Unto which promise Of the Messiah, and salvation by him; and of the resurrection of the dead and eternal glory, as follow…
Matthew Henry
On Acts 26:1–11
17th Century
Minister
Christianity teaches us to give a reason of the hope that is in us, and also to give honour to whom honour is due, without flattery or fear of man.…