34. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before
them and rejoiced, believing--that is, as the expression implies,
"rejoiced because he had believed."
in God--as a converted heathen, for the faith of a Jew would not
be so expressed [ALFORD].
with all his house--the wondrous change on himself and the whole house
filling his soul with joy. "This is the second house which, in the Roman
city of Philippi, has been consecrated by faith in Jesus, and of which
the inmates, by hospitable entertainment of the Gospel witnesses, have
been sanctified to a new beginning of domestic life, pleasing and
acceptable to God. The first result came to pass in consequence simply
of the preaching of the Gospel; the second was the fruit of a testimony
sealed and ennobled by suffering" [BAUMGARTEN].
JFB.
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