Acts Chapter 14 verse 16 Holy Bible
who in the generations gone by suffered all the nations to walk in their own ways.
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Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.
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who in the past generations suffered all the nations to go in their own ways,
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Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
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who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
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who in the past generations did suffer all the nations to go on in their ways,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - The generations gone by for times past, A.V.; the nations for nations, A.V.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) Who in times past suffered all nations.--Better, all the heathen; the term used being that which is always employed of the nations outside the covenant of Israel. We have here the first germ of what may be fairly described as St. Paul's philosophy of history. The times of ignorance had been permitted by God, and those who had lived in them would be equitably dealt with, and judged according to their knowledge. The same thought meets us again in the speech at Athens (Acts 17:30). In Romans 1, 2, 11, we meet with it, in an expanded form, as a more complete vindication of the righteousness of God. The ignorance and the sins of the Gentile world had been allowed to run their course, as the Law had been allowed to do its partial and imperfect work among the Jews, as parts, if one may so speak, of a great divine drama, leading both to feel the need of redemption, and preparing both for its reception. All were included in unbelief that God might have mercy upon all (Romans 11:32).
