Acts Chapter 15 verse 17 Holy Bible
That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, And all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called,
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So that the rest of men may make search for the Lord, and all the Gentiles on whom my name is named,
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so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations on whom my name is invoked, saith [the] Lord, who does these things
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That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
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That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Gentiles who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all these things.
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that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the nations, upon whom My name hath been called, saith the Lord, who is doing all these things.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - May for might, A.V.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) That the residue of men . . .--The Hebrew gives, as in our version, "That they may possess the remnant of Edom and of all the heathen which are called by my name." The LXX. translators either paraphrased the passage, so as to give a wider and more general view of its teaching, or followed a reading in which the Hebrew for "man" (Adam) took the place of Edom. It will be seen that the argument of St. James turns upon the Greek rendering. The "name of God" was to be "called" upon by those who were "the residue of men," i.e., all that were outside the pale of Israel. So understood, the words became, of course, a prediction of the conversion of the Gentiles, and to the uncritical habits of the time, accustomed to Targums or Paraphrases of many parts of Scripture, the LXX. was for all but the stricter and more bigoted Hebraists, as authoritative as the original.
