A Key to the Narrative of the Acts of the Apostles (Classic Reprint)

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IT has been well said that the religious know ledge vouchsafed before the Christian era was like the gradual dawning of light, which leads us to' anticipate the rising of the sun; that Christ's advent, when at length He came in humiliation, was like a sunrise obscured by cloud; and that only when the 'rushing mighty wind' of Pente cost had blown aside those earlier mists, could men behold Him, as indeed He is, the source of all their light and joy.

Therefore in the 'acts of the Apostles, ' much more than in the Gospels, have we Christ revealed to us in the fulness of His strength, reigning, as He still reigns, 'at the right hand of power.' And it may well be that St. Luke meant to imply this in that Opening phrase of his 'second treatise, ' where he alludes to his Gospel as containing but the beginnings of all that Jesus did and taught. The Apostles had received a promise that they should see 'greater things than these' hereafter.

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