Teks -- Acts 13:40 (NET)

13:40 Watch out, then, that what is spoken about by the prophets does not happen to you:

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Robertson: Act 13:40 - Beware therefore

Beware therefore ( blepete oun ).

The warning is pertinent. Perhaps Paul noticed anger on the faces of some of the rabbis.

Robertson: Act 13:40 - Lest there come upon you

Lest there come upon you ( mē epelthēi ).

Second aorist active subjunctive with the negative final conjunction mē .

Robertson: Act 13:40 - In the prophets

In the prophets ( en tois prophētais ).

The quotation is from the lxx text of Hab 1:5. The plural here refers to the prophetic collection (Luk 24:44; Act 24:14). "The Jews of Habakkuk’ s day had refused to believe in the impending invasion by the Chaldeans, and yet it had come"(Furneaux).

Wesley: Act 13:40 - Beware

A weighty and seasonable admonition. No reproof is as yet added to it.

JFB: Act 13:38-41 - the forgiveness of sins

The first necessity of the sinner, and so the first experienced blessing of the Gospel.

JFB: Act 13:40 - Beware, therefore, &c.

By this awful warning of the Old Testament the apostle would fain "shut them up unto the faith."

Clarke: Act 13:40 - Beware - lest that come upon you, etc.

Beware - lest that come upon you, etc. - If you reject these benefits, now freely offered to you in this preaching of Christ crucified, you may expect such judgment from the hand of God as your forefathers experienced, when, for their rebellion and their contempt of his benefits, their city was taken, their temple destroyed, and themselves either slain by the sword, or carried into captivity. It is evident that St. Paul refers to Hab 1:5-10; and in those verses the desolation by the Chaldeans is foretold. Never was there a prophecy more correctly and pointedly applied. These Jews did continue to slight the benefits offered to them by the Lord; and they persevered in their rebellion: what was the consequence? The Romans came, took their city, burnt their temple, slew upwards of a million of them, and either carried or sold the rest into captivity. How exactly was the prophecy in both cases fulfilled!

Calvin: Act 13:40 - Take heed that that come not upon you // Which is said in the prophets

40.Take heed that that come not upon you Because he had to do with stiff-necked men, or at least there were diverse in the company which were stiff-necked (as if he meant with a hammer to soften their stubbornnesses) he addeth a chiding unto doctrine. For if the Jews had been obedient and willing to obey, undoubtedly he would have sought sweetly to allure them unto Christ. But it was either their sluggishness, or else their willfulness, that caused him to be more angry; like as all those must be cited to appear before God’s judgment-seat who contemn the grace of Christ and the horrible judgment of eternal death must be denounced to those. He signifieth, indeed, that there is yet place left for repentance, when he willeth ⁸²⁵ them to take heed; yet, notwithstanding, he telleth them therewithal, that unless they beware in time, the horrible vengeance of God is not far off.

Which is said in the prophets The place which is cited is taken out of the first chapter of Habakkuk, (Hab 1:5;) but because all prophecies were gathered into one volume or body, Paul saith that it is written in the prophets.

Defender: Act 13:40 - in the prophets

Act 13:41 is quoted from Hab 1:5."

TSK: Act 13:40 - Beware // which

Beware : Mal 3:2, Mal 4:1; Mat 3:9-12; Heb 2:3, Heb 3:12, Heb 12:25

which : Isa 29:14; Hab 1:5

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Poole: Act 13:40

Hab 1:5. He cautions these Jews, lest the same thing threatened by the prophet to their fathers come also upon them; for sin is as odious unto God as ever, and God is as jealous of his honour, which sin robs him of, as ever he was.

Haydock: Act 13:40

See then that you reject not this divine Saviour, lest what has been denounced by the prophets fall upon your incredulous heads: I will abandon the holy place which I entrusted to you; I will cease to look upon you as my people; I will transfer my kingdom to the Gentiles. (Bible de Vence)

Gill: Act 13:40 - Beware therefore // lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the Prophets

Beware therefore,.... Of rejecting the Gospel, and those excellent truths of it; since forgiveness of sin and a justifying righteousness are said to be had in no other way, but in and through Christ; take heed therefore,

lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the Prophets: some think that the apostle refers to two places in the Prophets, which he puts together, and therefore uses the plural number; the one in Isa 28:14 from whence the character of the persons is taken, "ye despisers", or scornful men, who are addressed; and the other in Hab 1:5 where is to be found what is said to them; but rather the latter place is what is only referred to, and is said to be, "in the Prophets", that is, in one of the prophets; See Gill on Joh 6:45 or in the book of the Prophets, the lesser prophets, which were together in one book, among which Habakkuk stands; the Ethiopic version reads in the singular number, "lest should come upon you the word of the prophet, saying", as follows.