But that it spread no further among the people
Meaning not in Jerusalem; for the fame of this miracle was spread
among all the inhabitants of that city; but in other parts of the
nation: let us straitly threaten them;
or "in threatening threaten them"; that is, severely threaten
them with imprisonment, or with the scourging of forty stripes
save one, or with death itself. That they speak henceforth
to no man in this name;
which through indignation and contempt they do not mention, but
mean the name of Jesus: and their sense is, that the apostles,
from this time forward, should not teach, or preach the doctrine
of the resurrection of the dead, or any other doctrine of the
Gospel, in the name of Jesus, to any man, Jew or Gentile; or
perform any miracle in his name, or call upon his name, and make
use of it, for the healing of any person, or doing any miraculous
work. The Ethiopic version is a very odd one, and quite contrary
to the sense of the sanhedrim, "that they should not speak any
more but in the name of the man Jesus".
Acts 4:17
