Teks -- Acts 5:20 (NET)

5:20 “Go and stand in the temple courts and proclaim to the people all the words of this life.”

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Robertson: Act 5:20 - And stand

And stand ( kai stathentes ).

First aorist passive participle (intransitive, ingressive aorist), take a stand. Bold and pictorial command.

Robertson: Act 5:20 - All the words of this life

All the words of this life ( panta ta rhēmata tēs zōēs tautēs ).

Not just a Hebraism for "all these words of life."Probably "this life"which the Sadducees deny and of which the angel is now speaking, this eternal life. (Joh 6:63, Joh 6:68; 1Co 15:19).

Vincent: Act 5:20 - Stand

Stand

Compare Act 2:14; and see on Luk 18:11; and Luk 19:8.

Vincent: Act 5:20 - Of this life

Of this life

The eternal life which Christ revealed. It is a peculiar use of the phrase, which is commonly employed in contrast with the life to come, as 1Co 15:19. Compare Joh 6:63, Joh 6:68. Not equivalent to these words of life.

Wesley: Act 5:20 - The words of this

That is, these words of life: words which show the way to life everlasting.

JFB: Act 5:17-23 - sect of the Sadducees

See on Act 4:1 for the reason why this is specified.

JFB: Act 5:20 - all the words of this life

Beautiful expression for that Life in the Risen One which was the burden of their preaching!

Clarke: Act 5:20 - All the words of this life

All the words of this life - All the doctrines of life eternal, founded on the word, death, and resurrection of Christ Jesus. This is another periphrasis for Gospel. Go to the temple - the most public place, and speak to the people - who come there to worship according to the law, the words of this life - the whole doctrine of salvation from sin and death; and show that the law is fulfilled in the sacrifice of Jesus, and that, by his resurrection, he has brought life and immortality to light.

Calvin: Act 5:20 - Speak in the temple // The words of this life

20.Speak in the temple This is the end of their deliverance, that they employ themselves stoutly in preaching the gospel, and provoke their enemies courageously, until they die valiantly. For they were put to death at length when the hand of God ceased, after that they had finished their course; but now the Lord openeth the prison for them, that they may be at liberty to fulfill their function. That is worth the marking, because we see many men, who, after they have escaped out of persecution, do afterwards keep silence, as if they had done their duty towards God, (and were no more to be troubled;) other some, also, do escape away by denying Christ; but the Lord doth deliver his children, not to the end they may cease off from the course which they have begun, but rather that they may be the more zealous afterward. The apostles might have objected, It is better to keep silence for a time, forasmuch as we cannot speak one word without danger; we are now apprehended for one only sermon, how much more shall the fury of our enemies be inflamed hereafter, if they shall see us make no end of speaking? But because they knew that they were to live and to die to the Lord, they do not refuse to do that which the Lord commanded; so we must always mark what function the Lord enjoineth us. There will many things meet us oftentimes, which may discourage us, unless being content with the commandment of God alone, we do our duty, committing the success to him.

The words of this life A singular commendation of the gospel, that it is a lively doctrine, bringing salvation unto men; for the righteousness of God is revealed unto us in it, (Rom 1:17;) and in it Christ offereth himself unto us with the sacrifice of his death, with the Spirit of regeneration, with the earnest of our adoption. And this is spoken expressly to the apostles, to the end they may the more courageously enter all manner of combats for the gospel, forasmuch as they hear that they are ministers of eternal salvation. The demonstrative is added for the more certainty, as if the angel did point out life with his finger, as assuredly we need not to seek the same far, when we have the word in our mouth and in our heart; unless peradventure some man had rather take it by hypallage, the words of this life, for these words, which I do not reject, yet that former sense me thinks is better, for it was a new revelation of Christ wherein they had life present.

Defender: Act 5:20 - Go, stand

Regardless of opposition or difficulties, the Lord expects His people to stand - that is, to take a stand, once and for all (Eph 6:13, Eph 6:14) - and to speak - to speak all the words of this life, just as the apostles "spake the word of God with boldness" (Act 4:31)."

TSK: Act 5:20 - stand // all

stand : Isa 58:1; Jer 7:2, Jer 19:14, Jer 19:15, Jer 20:2, Jer 20:3, Jer 22:1, Jer 22:2, Jer 26:2, Jer 36:10; Mat 21:23; Joh 18:20

all : Act 11:14; Exo 24:3; Joh 6:63, Joh 6:68, Joh 12:50, Joh 17:3, Joh 17:8; 1Jo 1:1-3, 1Jo 5:11, 1Jo 5:12

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Poole: Act 5:20 - Stand // All the words // This life

Stand the word implies courage and stedfastness of mind, as well as such a posture of the body.

All the words without preferring some acceptable truths before others more ungrateful, if necessary towards their salvation. Christ for a time did limit them; they might not tell any that he was Jesus the Christ, Mat 16:20 , nor the vision which they had seen in his transfiguration, Mat 17:9 . Now this prohibition is taken off. Thus the sun does not shine in his full glory all at once.

This life some admit of an hypallage, and join the pronoun to the other substantive, reading in this place, these words of life; and the rather because by this life is ordinarily understood the present, temporary life, as in 1Co 15:19 : but there needs not this translatitious sense; by this life, the angel might very well understand eternal life and salvation, for that was it which the Sadducees denied, and for the preaching of which life the apostles were imprisoned.

Gill: Act 5:20 - Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people // all the words of this life

Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people,.... They were not delivered out of prison, in order to go and secure themselves from danger; but to go about the work they were called to, to preach the Gospel "in the temple", the place of worship; and a proper place to meet with persons to preach to, being a public place, whither the Jews always resorted; and there they were to stand, and continue with courage and intrepidity, not fearing the reproach and wrath of men, seeing they had both Christ and truth on their side; and there declare it "to the people", the common people, the multitude, even all that came to hear: the Gospel is to be preached to all; the Spirit of God makes it effectual to some, and others are rendered inexcusable: the substance of what they were to speak follows,

all the words of this life; all the doctrines of the Gospel; none of them are to be dropped or concealed, but to be spoken out, fully, freely, and faithfully, with all boldness and constancy; though they cannot be comprehended by reason, and are rejected by learned men, and the majority of the people; though charged with novelty and licentiousness, and attended with reproach and persecution: and these may be called, "the words of life", even of eternal life, as in Joh 6:68 because they show the nature of it, and point out the way unto it; not by the law, and obedience to that, but by Christ and his righteousness; and are the means of quickening dead sinners, of reviving drooping saints, and of nourishing them up unto eternal life: and also the words of "this" life; not of this present frail, mortal, and sinful life; but of life by Christ, which is begun to be enjoyed now, and will be perfectly enjoyed hereafter: and particularly the doctrine of the resurrection unto life may be intended; in opposition to the Sadducees, who denied it, and were the men that, being filled with indignation against them for preaching it, had seized them, and put them into prison; and being now delivered from prison, they are bid to go and preach this same doctrine again, in the most public manner: though some think there is an hypallage in the words; and so the Syriac version renders them, "all these words of life"; and the Ethiopic version, "this word of life"; meaning the Gospel, and the doctrines of it, they had in commission to preach, and for which they were reproached and persecuted.