The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1Stokes, George Thomas
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The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1
Stokes, George Thomas
Bible. Acts -- Commentaries; Bible. Acts -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
The countenance likewise of the mighty
shall He cast down, filling them with confusion. Darkness shall be
their habitation, and worms shall be their bed; nor from that their
bed shall they hope to be again raised, because they exalted not the
Name of the Lord of Spirits." This is one specimen of the Messianic
expectations, which were just then worked up to fever pitch among the
Galileans especially, and were ever leading them to burst out into
bloody rebellion against the power of the Romans. We might multiply
such quotations fourfold did our space permit. This one extract must
suffice to show the tone and quality of the religious literature upon
which the souls of the Apostles had fed and been sustained, when they
proposed this query, "Dost Thou at this time restore the kingdom to
Israel?" They were thinking simply of such a kingdom as the book of
Enoch foretold.
[20] The book of Enoch was translated into English by Archbishop
Laurence, and was first published about seventy years ago. There
is an exhaustive article on the subject in the second volume of
the _Dictionary of Christian Biography_, written by Professor
Lipsius of Jena.
[21] The book of Jubilees has never been published in English. An
interesting account of it will be found in the later editions of
Kitto's _Biblical Cyclopædia_. The reader will find another
account of the book of Jubilees in the _Dict. Christ. Biog._, iv.,
507. The Psalms of Solomon are contained in the _Cod. Pseud. Vet.
Test._ of J. A. Fabricius. There is a brief notice of them in the
_Dict. Chris. Biog._, iv., 508, under the title "Pseudepigrapha."
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