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Acts 1:4

The Pulpit Commentary on Acts 1:4

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

He charged them not to deport for commanded them that they should not depart, A.V.; to wait for wait, A.V.; said he for saith he, A.V.; from me for of me, A.V. Being assembled, etc. (R.T. on, its μετ' αὐτῶν); more exactly, as he was assembling with them (Field, in 'Otium Norvicense').

Not to depart from Jerusalem. (See .) It was necessary, according to the prophecy, ; , that the gospel should go forth from Jerusalem. Wait for the promise. (See .

) The promise of the Father formed the subject of our Lord's discourse to the apostles on the last night of his earthly life, as recorded in , , ; ; .

He doubtless here refers to that conversation, though not, of course, to the record of it in the Gospel of St. John.

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