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In short, Paul sees his outreach to the Gentiles as a ministry to Israel (Romans 11:12-15). God promised Abraham that in his seed all the nations (Gentiles) of the world would be blessed (Genesis 22:18; Galatians 3:15). And Isaiah prophesied
In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
as the highest of the mountains; it ...
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On Pentecost the Apostle Peter alluded to the apocalyptic great and terrible Day of the Lord in Acts 2:17-21. Later in the same chapter the believers in Jerusalem started divesting themselves of all their worldly goods (Acts 2:45). For those who were not sincere in their personal sacrifice and who dissembled (Ananias and Sapphira), the discipline was ...
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An alternative explanation could just be rooted in practicality.
The pattern had already been established by the Antiochene church in Acts 11:27-30. Agabus predicted an imminent famine and the church in Antioch. There were many famines during Claudius's reign (41-54), the most severe of which occurred in Judea around 46-47.
Because of the imminent threat, ...
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εἰς is part of an idiom here and can also be translated as "unto."
αὐτῷ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας, ἀμήν
"(To) him (be) the glory unto the ages, amen."
The idiom is εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας ("unto the ages") and means "forever."
Source: My years in Koine Greek classes, and I think I also read it in Porter's Idioms of the Greek New Testament.
I think Edwards does a ...
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No church was a stranger to persecution at this time, but it was especially severe and long lasting in Jerusalem. Here and here. I think it is to be expected that wide spread poverty among the church would be one of the many side effects of this persecution.
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One possibility is that it came out of the meeting in Jerusalem described in Galatians 2, where Paul writes:
and when James and Cephas and John, who were acknowledged pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. ...
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Your question seems to be rhetorical. Most likely, of course, Jesus knew the prophecy of Joel. Did he quote it? Very likely, even if we can not pin it down. Not all is written down. The book Revelation quotes it often. (It is said to be inspired by him. Apk 1, 1)
There is a difference between the two situations in which persons would call on the Name of ...
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