Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 16:20
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20. These men, being Jews —objects of dislike, contempt, and suspicion by the Romans, and at this time of more than usual prejudice. do exceedingly trouble our city —See similar charges, Acts 17:6 ; Acts 24:5 ; 1 Kings 18:17 . There is some color of truth in all such accusations, in so far as the Gospel, and generally the fear of God, as a reigning principle of human action, is in a godless world a thoroughly revolutionary principle . . . How far external commotion and change will in any case attend the triumph of this principle depends on the breadth and obstinacy of the resistance it meets with. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-21" class="com-number"
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source-manifest/jfb— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)- evidence_grade: T_theological