Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 3:23

23 Fán bù tīng cōng nà xiānzhī de , bìyào cóng mín zhòng quán rán mièjué .

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 3:23 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 3:23

And it shall come to pass, that every soul
Every person, man or woman: which will not hear that prophet;
neither believe what he says, nor do what he commands; or as it is in ( Deuteronomy 18:19 ) "will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name": for he that hears not him, hearkens not to God, in whose name he speaks, and whose word he delivers, shall be destroyed from among the people;
in the Hebrew text it is, "I will require it of him"; the Hebrew word, (wmem) , there used, by having different points, may be rendered "of him", or "from his people", which seems to be the reason of this difference: and requiring often intends punishment, or a cutting off; or as Aben Ezra explains it here,

``death by the hand of heaven;''

that is, immediate destruction from God; and so Maimonides says ^F11, he that transgresses the words of that prophet, is guilty of death by the hand of heaven; and which was remarkably fulfilled in the Jewish nation, for their rejection of Jesus as the true Messiah, and that prophet.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Yesod Hattora, c. 9. sect. 4.

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 3:23 In-Context

21 Tiān bì liú tā , dĕng dào wànwù fùxīng de shíhou , jiù shì shén cōng chuàngshì yǐlái , jiè zhe shèng xiānzhī de kǒu suǒ shuō de .

22 Móxī céng shuō , zhǔ shén yào cōng nǐmen dìxiōng zhōngjiān , gĕi nǐmen xīngqǐ yī wèi xiānzhī xiàng wǒ , fán tā xiàng nǐmen suǒ shuō de , nǐmen dōu yào tīng cōng .

23 Fán bù tīng cōng nà xiānzhī de , bìyào cóng mín zhòng quán rán mièjué .

24 Cōng Sǎmǔĕr yǐlái de zhòng xiānzhī , fán shuō yùyán de , yĕ dōu shuō dào zhèxie rìzi .

25 Nǐmen shì xiānzhī de zǐsūn , yĕ chéngshòu shén yǔ nǐmen zǔzong suǒ lì de yuē , jiù shì duì Yàbólāhǎn shuō , dì shàng wàn zú , dōu yào yīn nǐde hòuyì dé fú .