ACC ~ Acts 14 v8

PREFIGURING THE GENTILES. BEDE: Just as that lame man whom Peter and John cured at the door of the temple prefigured the salvation of the Jews, so too this sick Lycaonian prefigured the people of the Gentiles, who were for a long time remote from the religion of the law and the temple. [The Lycaonians] who were brought in by the preaching of the apostle Paul, who said, “They [Peter, James and John] gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, so that we might go to the Gentiles, but they to the circumcised.”The times [when the two cures occurred] are appropriate to the exposition, for the former [i.e., the lame man cured by Peter and John] was cured in the earliest days of the faith, when the word was not yet believed by Gentiles. The latter [i.e., the lame Lycaonian] was cured in the midst of the new joys of the converted Gentile world, when the Jews had been excluded for their lack of faith and sprinkled with the dust of damnation. COMMENTARY ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 14.8.

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