Apostelgeschichte 10:45

45 Und die Gläubigen aus den Juden, die mit Petrus gekommen waren, entsetzten sich, daß auch auf die Heiden die Gabe des heiligen Geistes ausgegossen ward;

Apostelgeschichte 10:45 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 10:45

And they of the circumcision which believed
Or "of the Jews that believed", as the Ethiopic version renders it; the circumcised Jews who believed in Jesus Christ:

were astonished, as many as came with Peter;
who were six brethren, as appears from ( Acts 11:12 ) these were amazed,

because that on the Gentiles also was poured out of the gift of the
Holy Ghost;
which they before thought was peculiar to the Jews; and this was according to their former notions, and the sentiments of the whole nation, that the Shekinah does not dwell without the land, and only in the land of Israel F15; yea, they sometimes say, only upon the families in Israel, whose genealogies are clear F16: the same they say of prophecy F17, which is one of the gifts of the Holy Ghost, and was one of those which were now bestowed. They own, that before the giving of the law, the Holy Ghost was among the Gentiles, but from that time ceased to be among them F18: hence even these believing Jews wonder at the pouring it forth upon them; which they needed not, had they known that the legal dispensation was now at an end, and the Gospel dispensation had taken place; in which it had been foretold the Spirit should be poured forth on the dry ground of the Gentiles.


FOOTNOTES:

F15 Zohar in Gen. fol. 118. 4. & in Exod. fol. 2. 3. & 70. 2. Maimon. Kiddush Hachodesh, c. 4. sect. 12. & Jarchi in Jonah i. 3.
F16 T. Bab. Kiddushin, fol. 70. 2.
F17 Zohar in Gen. fol. 128. 4.
F18 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 21. p. 59.

Apostelgeschichte 10:45 In-Context

43 Von diesem zeugen alle Propheten, daß durch seinen Namen alle, die an ihn glauben, Vergebung der Sünden empfangen sollen.
44 Da Petrus noch diese Worte redete, fiel der heilige Geist auf alle, die dem Wort zuhörten.
45 Und die Gläubigen aus den Juden, die mit Petrus gekommen waren, entsetzten sich, daß auch auf die Heiden die Gabe des heiligen Geistes ausgegossen ward;
46 denn sie hörten, daß sie mit Zungen redeten und Gott hoch priesen. Da antwortete Petrus:
47 Mag auch jemand das Wasser wehren, daß diese nicht getauft werden, die den heiligen Geist empfangen haben gleichwie auch wir?
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