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Acts 22:22

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

They for then, A.V.; voice for voices, A.V. Unto this word. They could not bear the idea of the Gentiles being admitted into the kingdom of God. It was a blow to their pride of exclusiveness. The leveling-up of the Gentiles seemed to be as intolerable as the leveling-down of themselves, as spoken of e.

g. Isaiah 1:10; Ezekiel 16:45, etc.

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