{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/sco/act003.htm","path":"bib/cmt/sco/act003.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/sco/act003.htm","text":"The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]\nrefreshing\n\"Namely, seasons in which, through the appearance of the Messiah in His kingdom, there shall occur blessed rest and refreshment for the people of God.\" -- Heinrich A. W. Meyer.\nsins\nSin\n(See Scofield) - (Rom 3:23).\nAnd he shall\nThe appeal here is national to the Jewish people as such, not individuals as in Peter's first sermon (Act 2:38); (Act 2:39). There those who were pricked in heart were exhorted to save themselves from (among) the untoward nation; here the whole people is addressed, and the promise to national repentance is national deliverance: \"and he shall send Jesus Christ\" to bring in the times which the prophets had foretold.\n(See Scofield) - (Act 2:14).\nThe official answer was the imprisonment of the apostles, and the inhibition to preach, so fulfilling (Luk 19:14).\nrestitution\n(Greek, \"apokatastasis\"\", means \"restoration\", occurring here and (Act 1:6) only.) The meaning is limited by the words: \"Which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets.\" The prophets speak of the restoration of Israel to the land\n(See \"Israel,\"; (Gen 12:2); (Gen 12:3); (Rom 11:26);\nalso \"Palestinian Covenant,\" (Deu 30:1-9).\n(See Scofield) - (Deu 30:3);\nand of the restoration, the theocracy, under David's Son.\n(See \"Davidic Covenant,\" (Sa2 7:8-17).\n(See Scofield) - (Sa2 7:16),\n\"Kingdom,\" (Gen 1:26-28).\n(See Scofield) - (Zac 12:8).\nNo prediction of the conversion and restoration of the wicked dead is found in the prophets, or elsewhere.\nCompare (Rev 20:11-15).\nchildren\n(Greek, \"uihos\", \"sons\").","title":"The Scofield Bible Commentary: Acts: Acts Chapter 3","type":"page"}