The Pulpit Commentary on Acts 15:11

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

We shall be saved through the grace, etc., for through the grace … we shall be saved, A.V.; Jesus for Jesus Christ, A.V. and T.R.; in like manner for even, A.V. "How full of power are these words! The same that Paul says at large in the Epistle to the Romans, the same says Peter here" (Chrysost.

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