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Excerpt from The Biblical Illustrator, or Anecdotes, Similes, Emblems, Illustrations, Expository, Scientific, Georgraphical, Historical, and Homiletic, Gathered From a Wide Range of Home and Foreign Literature, on the Verses of the Bible, Vol. 1: The Acts
I. The title or the Boom - The title Acts of the Apostles, although not given to it by its author, is of high antiquity, being found in the Oldest mss. And versions either as it stands, or with the articles omitted Acts of Apostles The book is often quoted by Early Fathers as Acts but apparently as a compen dious form for a well-known title. The propriety of the designation has been Often questioned. The book does not profess to record the acts of all the apostles, nor all the acts of those most prominent in the narrative, St. Peter and St. Paul. On the other hand, it gives full notices of disciples, who were not apostles. But, taking the title in its earliest form, we find in it a certain fitness. As the Gospel records acts and words Of our Lord, so this book records acts of the apostles by which His last injunction and promise were fulfilled. But the Gospel is one of four, whereas this work stands alone, and is the only source from which we derive knowledge of the most momentous facts which belong to the foundations Of the Christian faith. Without it the first twenty years would be a blank as regards the history of the first Christians - a blank with Some rays of scattered light from the Epistles, of which the earliest was written a.d. 52. Of the events on which two great Christian festivals - Easter and Pentecost - are based, we have the record of the latter in this book alone. (canon Cook.)
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