ACTS 24:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.”
'Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings' — Paul reframes his visit to Jerusalem: he came to fulfill charitable duty (almsgiving to Jews) and temple worship, acts of piety. The recitation establishes that his motives were religiously proper.
Church Fathers on Acts 24:17
they themselves also allow. Acts 24:15 He does not say it of them, that they believe all things written in the Prophets: it was he that believed them all, not they: but how all, it would require a long discourse to show. And he nowhere makes mention of Christ. Here by saying, Believing, he does (virtually) introduce what relates to Christ; for the present he dwells on the subject of the resurrection, which doctrine was common to them also, and removed the suspicion of any…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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