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The Spirit said to Philip, "Go near, and join yourself to this chariot."
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The Spirit's Direct Guidance
Commentators unanimously identify "the Spirit" as the Holy Spirit, providing a direct and specific command to Philip. This was not a vague feeling but a clear instruction for ministry. As one scholar notes, this guidance could have been an audible voice or a strong, secret internal impulse from God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The Spirit. (See Barnes on Acts 8:26).
The Holy Spirit is here evidently intended. The thought in Philip's mind is here traced to h…
Join thyself (κολληθητ). See this vivid word (be glued to, first aorist passive imperative) already in 5:13; Luke 10:11…
19th Century
Anglican
Join thyself to this chariot.—The act implied is that of laying hold and, as it were, attaching himself to the chariot in…
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Baptist
Then the Spirit said to Philip, Go near, and join yourself to this chariot. And Philip ran there to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias,…
Having been directed to the desert road on the way to Gaza, Philip is again directed by the Spirit to the carriage that the Ethiopian minister of f…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then the Spirit said to Philip Not the angel, a ministering Spirit, as in (Acts 8:26) but the Holy Spirit, as…
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