ACTS 13:39 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.”
Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a righteousness that you could not obtain under the law of Moses — the dichotomy between faith-righteousness and law-righteousness echoes Pauline theology throughout Romans and Galatians. Set free (dikaiōō, to justify, to acquit) indicates judicial vindication before God, impossible under the law because the law diagnoses sin without providing remedy. The comprehensive phrase every sin and everyone who believes extends justification beyond Jewish boundaries.
Church Fathers on Acts 13:39
from which you could not be justified by the Law of Moses. Acts 13:39 Every one, he says: be who he may. For those (ordinances) are of no use, unless there be some benefit (accruing therefrom.) This is why he brings in forgiveness later: and shows it to be greater, when, the thing being (otherwise) impossible, yet this is effected. Who are His witnesses, he says, unto the people — the people that slew Him. Who would never have been so, were they not strengthened by a Divine…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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