Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways—that is, without extending to them the revelation vouchsafed to the seed of Abraham, and the grace attending it; compare Acts 17:30; I Corinthians 1:21. Yet not without guilt on their part was this privation (Romans 1:20, etc.).
when . . . Barnabas and Paul heard—Barnabas is put first here, apparently as having been styled the "Jupiter" of the company.
they rent their clothes and ran in—rather (according to the true reading), "ran forth."
among the people, crying out . . . Sirs, why do ye these things?—This was something more than that abhorrence of idolatry which took possession of the Jews as a nation from the time of the Babylonish captivity: it was that delicate sensibility to everything which affects the honor of God which Christianity, giving us in God a reconciled Father, alone can produce; making the Christian instinctively feel himself to be wounded in all dishonor done to God, and filling him with mingled horror and grief when such gross insults as this are offered to him.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 14:16:
Acts 14:8-10
Acts 15:4
Acts 17:23
Acts 17:30
DISCLAIMER: Church of the Great God (CGG) provides these resources to aid the individual in studying the Bible. However, it is up to the individual to "prove all things, and hold fast to that which is good" (I Thessalonians 5:21). The content of these resources does not necessarily reflect the views of CGG. They are provided for information purposes only.