Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 10:38
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38. Now God anointed Jesus of Nazareth —rather, "Jesus of Nazareth (as the burden of that 'published word'), how God anointed Him." with the Holy Ghost and with power —that is, at His baptism, thus visibly proclaiming Him MESSIAH, "the Lord's Christ." See :- . For it is not His unction for personal holiness at His incarnation that is referred to—as many of the Fathers and some moderns take it—but His investiture with the insignia of the Messianic office, in which He presented Himself after His baptism to the acceptance of the people. went about doing good —holding up the beneficent character of all His miracles, which was their predicted character ( Isaiah 35:5 ; Isaiah 35:6 , c.). healing all that were oppressed of the devil —whether in the form of demoniacal possessions, or more indirectly, as in her "whom Satan had bound with a spirit of infirmity eighteen years" ( Isaiah 35:6- : ) thereby showing Himself the Redeemer from all evil. for God was with him —Thus gently does the apostle rise to the supreme dignity of Christ with which he closes, accommodating himself to his hearers. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-39" class="com-number"
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