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Acts 14:16

Acts 14:16
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Who in times past,.... For many hundred years past; even ever since God chose and separated the people of Israel from the rest of the nations, to be a peculiar people to himself: from that time he…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Who in times past - Previous to the gospel; in past ages. Suffered all nations - Permitted all nations; that is, all Gentiles, Act 17:30. “And the times of this ignorance God winked at.” To walk in…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Who in times past suffered all nations, etc. - The words παντα τα εθνη, which we here translate, all nations, should be rendered, all the Gentiles, merely to distinguish them from the Jewish people:…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Acts 14:8-18

In these verses we have,

I. A miraculous cure wrought by Paul at Lystra upon a cripple that had been lame from his birth, such a one as was miraculously cured by Peter and John, Act 3:2. That…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

who in times past( by-gone generations) suffered all nations( all the heathen) to walk in their own ways God had chosen Israel only for His own people before the coming of Christ, and had given to the…