Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
the times of this ignorance God winked at—literally (and far better), "overlooked," that is, bore with, without interposing to punish it, otherwise than suffering the debasing tendency of such worship to develop itself (compare Acts 14:16, and see on Romans 1:24, etc.).
but now—that a new light was risen upon the world.
commandeth—"That duty—all along lying upon man estranged from his Creator, but hitherto only silently recommending itself and little felt—is now peremptory."
all men every where to repent—(compare Colossians 1:6, Colossians 1:23; Titus 1:11) —a tacit allusion to the narrow precincts of favored Judaism, within which immediate and entire repentance was ever urged. The word "repentance" is here used (as in Luke 13:3, Luke 13:5; Luke 15:10) in its most comprehensive sense of "repentance unto life."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 17:30:
Job 24:12
Acts 14:16
Ephesians 4:18
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