40. with many other words did he testify and exhort--Thus we have
here but a summary of Peter's discourse; though from the next words it
would seem that only the more practical parts, the home appeals, are
omitted.
Save yourselves from this untoward generation--as if Peter already
foresaw the hopeless impenitence of the nation at large, and would have
his hearers hasten in for themselves and secure their own salvation.
JFB.
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