Acts 4:25-28 Who by the mouth of your servant David have said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?… I. ITS CHARACTERISTICS. 1. Furiousness, "rage," a word signifying the neighing or snorting of highly excited horses — Like the prancing war-horse in the book of Job. It is metaphorically used to represent the noise and fury of insolent and overbearing men, and well represents the attitude of Christ's enemies. 2. Vanity. They "imagine .vain things." Those who aspire to thwart the plans of Christ, to crush Christianity, live in a region of mad dreams. They are agents of consummate folly, and must fall victims to their own delusions. 3. Combination. "Kings and rulers" were banded together. Ungodly men that differ widely in other things, are one in their antagonism to Christ. II. ITS FRUSTRATION. All that Herod, Pontius Pilate, etc., could do was just as much as God determined they should do. How great is God! He maketh His enemies to do His work. (D. Thomas, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? |
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