Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
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Gill's Exposition
And Philip ran thither to him,.... Being very ready to obey the divine order, and hoping he might be an instrument of doing some good, which might issue in the glory of God, and the welfare of men:…
Barnes' Notes
The Spirit - See the notes on Act 8:26. The Holy Spirit is evidently intended here. The thought in Philip’s mind is here traced to his suggestion. All good thoughts and designs have the same origin.…
Adam Clarke
Then the Spirit said unto Philip - This holy man having obeyed the first direction he received from God, and gone southward without knowing the reason why, it was requisite that he should now be…
We have here the story of the conversion of an Ethiopian eunuch to the faith of Christ, by whom, we have reason to think, the knowledge of Christ was sent into that country where he lived, and that…
Cambridge Bible
Then[And] the Spirit said unto Philip i.e. by a prompting from within.
Go near, and join thyself to this chariot No doubt this royal treasurer had a numerous retinue, and a single traveller on a…
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