And he said, How can I , except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
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Gill's Exposition
The place of the Scripture which he read was this,.... Or the paragraph or section of Scripture; that part of it in which he was reading was Isa 53:7 which shows, that by this time the Scriptures were…
Barnes' Notes
And he said ... - This was a general acknowledgment of his need of direction. It evinced a humble state of mind. It was an acknowledgment, also, originating probably from this particular passage which…
Adam Clarke
How can I, except some man should guide me? - This is no proof that "the Scriptures cannot be understood without an authorized interpreter," as some of the papistical writers assert. How could the…
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
except some man[one] should[shall] guide me The eunuch, living far away from the received expounders of the Scriptures, feels that in a dark passage like that which he was reading he has need of…
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