Act 2:22-36 | Abbott

Acts 2:22-36

This bold assertion of the precedent and entire control which God exercises even over the events accomplished by the greatest human wickedness, strikingly accords with the declaration of Christ on a similar occasion. (Luke 22:22.) The human mind will probably ever continue to speculate in vain upon this subject. No one has yet resolved the theoretical difficulties in which it is involved,—although, practically, no difficulty arises from it whatever.

The quotation here made is from Ps. 16:8-11.

In hell. The word hell is used here, as in many other passages, to mean simply death, or the grave.

He, is both dead and buried, &c., and of course the above language cannot apply to him.

Of the fruit of his loins; of his descendants.

His soul; that is, Christ's soul.

Shed forth this; the spiritual influence which had awakened their wonder.

Is not ascended, &c.; has not risen from the grave.

Peter, in the foregoing speech, as he is addressing a Jewish audience, builds his argument on the predictions of the Old Testament Scriptures, in which they believed.