أعمال الرسل ٢٢:٢٢
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فَسَمِعُوا لَهُ حَتَّى هذِهِ الْكَلِمَةَِ، ثُمَّ رَفَعُوا أَصْوَاتَهُمْ قَائِلِينَ:«خُذْ مِثْلَ هذَا مِنَ الأَرْضِ، لأَنَّهُ كَانَ لاَ يَجُوزُ أَنْ يَعِيشَ!».
التفاسير
مقتطفات جُمعت من تفاسير منشورة لترسيخ القراءة.
gave him audience to this word . . . then . . . Away with such a fellow from the earth, &c.--Their national prejudices lashed into fury at the mention of a mission to the Gentiles, they would speedily have done to him as they did to Stephen, but for the presence and protection of the Roman officer.
افتح المصدر ↗Paul was going on with this account of himself, had shown them his commission to preach among the Gentiles without any peevish reflections upon the Jews, and we may suppose designed next to show how he was afterwards, by a special direction of the Holy Ghost at Antioch, separated to this service, how tender he was of the Jews, how respectful to them, and how careful to give them the precedency in all places whither he came, and to unite Jews and Gentiles in one body; and then to show how wonderfully God had owned him, and what good service had been done to the interest of God's kingdom among men in general, without damage to any of the true interests of the Jewish church in particular. But, whatever he designs to say, they resolve he shall say no more to them: They gave him audience to this word. Hitherto they had heard him with patience and some attention. But when he speaks of being sent to the Gentiles, though it was what Christ himself said to him, they cannot bear it, not so much as to hear the Gentiles named, such an enmity had they to them, and such a jealousy of them. Upon the mention of this, they have no manner of patience, but forget all rules of decency and equity; thus were they provoked to jealousy by those that were no people, Rom 10:19. Now here we are told how furious and outrageous the people were against Paul, for mentioning the Gentiles as taken into the cognizance of divine grace, and so justifying his preaching among them. I. They interrupted him, by lifting up their voice, to put him into confusion, and that nobody might hear a word he said. Galled consciences kick at the least touch; and those who are resolved not to be rules by reason commonly resolve not to hear it if they can help it. And the spirit of enmity against the gospel of Christ commo…
افتح المصدر ↗الشواهد المتقابلة
مقاطع أخرى يربطها المجتمع بهذا المقطع أكثر من غيرها. انقر لتقرأها.
فَقَالَ فَسْتُوسُ:«أَيُّهَا الْمَلِكُ أَغْرِيبَاسُ وَالرِّجَالُ الْحَاضِرُونَ مَعَنَا أَجْمَعُونَ، أَنْتُمْ تَنْظُرُونَ هذَا الَّذِي تَوَسَّلَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ جِهَتِهِ كُلُّ جُمْهُورِ الْيَهُودِ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ وَهُنَا، صَارِخِينَ أَنَّهُ لاَ يَنْبَغِي أَنْ يَعِيشَ بَعْدُ.
لأَنَّ جُمْهُورَ الشَّعْبِ كَانُوا يَتْبَعُونَهُ صَارِخِينَ: «خُذْهُ!».
فَصَرَخُوا بِجُمْلَتِهِمْ قَائِلِينَ:«خُذْ هذَا! وَأَطْلِقْ لَنَا بَارَابَاسَ!»
فَصَرَخُوا: «خُذْهُ! خُذْهُ! اصْلِبْهُ!» قَالَ لَهُمْ بِيلاَطُسُ: «أَأَصْلِبُ مَلِكَكُمْ؟» أَجَابَ رُؤَسَاءُ الْكَهَنَةِ:«لَيْسَ لَنَا مَلِكٌ إِلاَّ قَيْصَرَ!».