Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord 20 working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. he was received up into heaven) The same verb is used Acts i. i, 11, 22; i Tim. iii. 16. sat on the right hand of God] A highly metaphorical phrase to indicate the transcendent glory of the Ascended Lord. In this glory He was revealed to the dying Stephen, not, however, sitting to judge and rule, but standing to succour and save (Acts vii. 55, 56). The sitting is mentioned Eph. i. 20; Col. iii. i; Heb. i. 3, viii. i, x. 12, xii. i. This session at God's right hand signifies permanence, rest, and dominion, in glory, majesty, and felicity, after the toils, humiliations, and sufferings of life upon earth. 20. And they -went fortK] 'They' means the Apostles and their colleagues, and we see from this statement how condensed this summary of Apostolic labour is. Much took place before there was a Church at Jerusalem which could send out missionaries to preach everywhere. the Lord working with them] The verb is found nowhere in the Gospels, and nowhere in N.T. is it used of Christ cooperating with His ministers. confirming] This verb also is found nowhere in the Gospels. It is often used of confirming a bargain. following] Yet another verb not found in the Gospels. See on i Tim. v. 10. In papyri it is used of verifying accounts, and 'verifying' may be the meaning here; 'signs which authenticated the word' (Milligan, N. T. Documents, p. 78). Perhaps the best comment on the verse is Heb. ii. 4, a passage which is of deep interest as showing the unquestioned reality of miraculous gifts in the early Church; and the way in which they were regarded as coordinate with other exhibitions of di...