The Pulpit Commentary on Acts 3:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And that he may send the Christ … even Jesus for and he shall send Jesus Christ, A.V.; who hath been appointed ( προκεχειρισμένον, Acts 22:14; Acts 26:16) for you for ( προκεκηρυγμένον) which before was preached unto you, A.

V. and T.R. Who hath been appointed, etc. Jesus is already designated and appointed and made (Acts 2:36) both Lord and Christ, but his glorious presence with his Church is deferred for a time, during which he is in heaven (Acts 3:21).

Tim R.V. is surely very infelicitous here, as if there were several Christs, one of whom was appointed for Israel.

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