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04311
[1] {Men and brethren}
Dispensationally, this is the most important passage in the N.T. It
gives the divine purpose for this age, and for the beginning of the
next. (1) The taking out from among the Gentiles of a people for His
name, the distinctive work of the present, or church-age. The church
is the ecclesia--the "called-out assembly." Precisely this has been
in progress since Pentecost. The Gospel has never anywhere converted
all, but everywhere has called out some. (2) "After this [viz. the
out-calling] I will return." James quotes from
# Am 9:11,12
The verses which follow in Amos describe the final regathering of
Israel, which the other prophets invariably connect with the
fulfilment of the Davidic Covenant (e.g.)
# Isa 11:1,10-12 Jer 23:5-8
(3) "And will build again the tabernacle of David," i.e. re-establish
the Davidic rule over Israel
# 2Sa 7:8-17 Lu 1:31-33
(4) "That the residue of men [Israelites] may seek after the Lord"
cf
# Zec 12:7,8 13:1,2
(5) "And all the Gentiles," etc.
cf
# Mic 4:2 Zec 8:21,22
This is also the order of
# Ro 11:24-27
04317
[1] {Wherefore}
The scope of the decision goes far beyond the mere question of
circumcision. The whole question of the relation of the law to
Gentile believers had been put in issue (v. 5), and their exemption
is declared in the decision (vs. 19,24). The decision might be
otherwise stated in the terms of
# Ro 6:14
"Ye are not under the law, but under grace." Gentile believers were
to show grace by abstaining from the practices offensive to godly
Jews
# Ac 15:20,21,28,29
cf
# Ro 14:12-17 1Co 8:1-13
04349
[1] {we}
The change here from "they," as in the preceding verses, to "we"
indicates that at Troas Luke, the narrator, joined Paul's company.