Acts

Key-word, “Witness;” Key-verse, 1:8.-This book is the Gospels applied, the acts of the Holy Ghost. Luke, in the Gospel, told what Jesus “began” and here what he continued, “both to do and teach” by the Holy Ghost, through disciples building up the kingdom of God. The door of faith is opened successively to Hebrew, Roman, and Greek, as in the order of the Gospels. Pentecost links Old Testament prophecy to New Testament history. This is the book of witness, first of man, secondly of God. [p. 104]HBS 42.8