Excerpt from The Acts of the Apostles: An Exposition

In accordance with the rule of this series, the Revised Version has been adopted for the text. However much this Version may be open to criticism or have fallen short of the ideal of a version, it must be allowed to be a much closer representation of the original Greek than the Authorized Version. And in a commentary whose express aim is to ascertain for its readers as far as possible the exact meaning of a book, the first requirement is that it should supply them with a version as faithful to the original as possible.

For permission to vary, in other respects, both in form and method from the scheme of the Oxford Commentaries, I owe my warm thanks to the Editor and to the Publishers of the series. In addition I wish to thank the Editor, Dr Lock, most cordially and gratefully, for the patience with which he has read and corrected this commentary both in manuscript and proof. To another friend, Mr Walter Worrall, I am very deeply indebted for similar labour in reading the proofs and for much valuable criticism which I here gratefully acknowledge. Professor Ramsay has very kindly allowed me to make use of the map which he gives in his Paul the Traveller: this reprint has the advantage of his latest corrections, and here I express my cordial thanks. Had this commentary been suitable for a dedication, I should like to have inscribed upon its front page the names of the Rev. Charles Gore, and the Rev. R. C. Moberly, as a small acknowledgment that to their teaching is due whatever of theological truth may be found in these pages.

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