; which is, that doctrine which we usually call “divinity,” as is manifest by the places following (Acts 13:46), “Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, it was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you, but seeing you put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.” That which is here called the word of God, was the doctrine of Christian religion; as it appears evidently by that which goes before. And (Acts 5:20) where it is said to the apostles by an angel, “Go stand and speak in the Temple, all the words of this life”; by the words of this life, is meant the doctrine of the Gospel; as is evident by what they did in the Temple, and is expressed in the last verse of the same chapter, “Daily in the Temple, and in every house they ceased not to teach and preach Christ Jesus”; in which place it is manifest that Jesus Christ was the subject of this “word of life”; or, which is all one, the subject of the “words of this life eternal,” that our Saviour offered them. So (Acts 15:7) the word of God is called “the word of the Gospel,” because it containeth the doctrine of the kingdom of Christ; and the same word ( Rom.
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