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Acts 14:2

The Pulpit Commentary on Acts 14:2

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

The Jews that were disobedient for the unbelieving Jews, A.V. and T.R.; stirred up the souls of the Gentiles, and made them, etc., for stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds, etc., A.V. The Jews that were disobedient.

The R.T. ( ἀπειθήσαντες) may equally and even better be rendered, the Jews that were unbelieving (comp. , where πιστεύων and ἀπειθῶν are opposed to each other, and , where the idea of belief is far more appropriate than that of obedience).

Stirred up the souls, etc. St. Paul speaks with much warmth of the constant opposition of the Jews, "forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved" ().

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