ACTS 20:32 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.”
'Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified' — The commendation (paratithēmi, to entrust) to God and his grace-word (logos tēs charitos) comprises Paul's ultimate legacy. The word itself possesses building power (oikodomeō, to build up) and grants inheritance (klēronomia) among the sanctified.
Church Fathers on Acts 20:32
What he does when writing in an Epistle, this he does also when speaking in council: from exhorting, he ends with prayer: for since he had much alarmed them by saying, Grievous wolves shall enter in among you Acts 20:29, therefore, not to overpower them, and make them lose all self-possession, observe the consolation (he gives). And now, he says, as always, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace: that is, to His grace: it is grace that saves. He…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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