Kisah Para Rasul 14:16

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Dalam zaman yang lampau Allah membiarkan semua bangsa menuruti jalannya masing-masing,

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dalam zaman yang lampau Allah membiarkan semua bangsa menuruti jalannya masing-masing,

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Ialah yang pada zaman yang telah lalu membiarkan segala orang kafir menurut jalannya sendiri,

Contextual Overview

⁸ And there sate a certayne man at Lystra, weake in his feete, beyng a creple from his mothers wombe, and neuer had walked. ⁹ The same hearde Paul speake: which beholdyng hym, and perceauyng that he had sayth to be whole, ¹⁰ Sayde with a loude voyce: stande vpryght on thy feete. And he start vp, and walked. ¹¹ And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lyft vp their voyces, saying in the speache of Lycaonia: Gods are come downe to vs in the lykenesse of men. ¹² And they called Barnabas Iupiter, and Paul Mercurius, because he was the chiefe speaker. ¹³ Then Iupiters priest, which was before their citie, brought oxen and garlandes vnto the doore, and woulde haue done sacrifice with the people. ¹⁴ Which when the Apostles, Barnabas & Paul heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying, ¹⁵ And saying: Sirs, why do ye these thynges? We are mortall men lyke vnto you, and preach vnto you, that ye shoulde turne from these vanities, vnto the lyuyng God, which made heauen and earth, and the sea, and all thynges that are therin. ¹⁶ The which in tymes past suffred all nations to walke in their owne wayes. ¹⁷ Neuerthelesse, he left not hym selfe without witnesse, in that he shewed his benefites from heauen, in geuyng vs rayne and fruitefull seasons, fillyng our heartes with foode and gladnesse.

Bible Verse Review
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suffered: Acts 17:30, Psalms 81:12, Psalms 147:20, Hosea 4:17, Romans 1:21-25, Romans 1:28, Ephesians 2:12, 1 Peter 4:3

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 18:14 - hath not suffered Ecclesiastes 11:9 - walk Isaiah 44:18 - for he hath Isaiah 60:2 - the darkness Isaiah 63:19 - are thine Daniel 3:7 - all the people Acts 26:20 - and then Romans 1:19 - that which Romans 1:24 - God Romans 2:14 - which Ephesians 2:3 - in times

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great people, and wyll blesse thee, and make thy name great, that thou shalt be [euen] a blessyng.

Genesis 14:11
And they takyng all the goodes of Sodome and Gomorrhe, and all their vittayles, went their way.

Genesis 14:12
And they caryed awaye Lot also Abrams brothers sonne, & his goodes, (for he dwelled in Sodome) and departed.

Genesis 14:18
And Melchisedech kyng of Salem brought foorth breade and wine: & he [was] the priest of the most highest God,

Genesis 14:19
And blessed hym, saying: Blessed be Abram vnto the hygh God possessour of heauen and earth.

1 Samuel 30:8
And Dauid asked councel at the Lord, saying: Shall I follow after this company? shall I ouertake them? And he aunswered him: Folowe, for thou shalt suerlie ouertake them, and recouer all.

Isaiah 41:2
Who raysed vp the iust man from the east, and called hym to go foorth? who cast downe the people, and subdued the kynges before him? that he may throw them al to the ground with his sworde, and scatter them lyke stubble with his bowe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who in times past,.... For many hundred years past; even ever since God chose and separated the people of Israel from the rest of the nations, to be a peculiar people to himself: from that time he

suffered all nations to walk in their own ways; of ignorance, superstition, and idolatry; which they devised, and chose, and delighted in: not that he gave them any licence to walk in these ways, without being chargeable with sin, or with impunity; but he left them to themselves, to the dim light and law of nature, and gave them no written law, nor any external revelation of his mind and will; nor did he send any prophets or ministers of his unto them, to show them the evil of their ways, and turn them from them, and direct them to the true God, and the right way of worshipping him; but left them to take their own methods, and pursue the imagination of their own hearts: but the apostle suggests, that the case was now altered, and God had sent them and other ministers of his, among all nations of the world, to protest against their superstition and idolatry; and to reclaim them from their evil ways, and to direct them to the true and living God, and his worship, and to preach salvation by his Son Jesus Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who in times past - Previous to the gospel; in past ages.

Suffered all nations - Permitted all nations; that is, all Gentiles, Acts 17:30. “And the times of this ignorance God winked at.”

To walk in their own ways - To conduct themselves without the restraints and instructions of a written law. They were permitted to follow their own reason and passions, and their own system of religion. God gave them no written laws, and sent to them no messengers. Why he did this we cannot determine. It might have been, among other reasons, to show to the world conclusively:

(1) The insufficiency of reason to guide people in the matters of religion. The experiment was made under the most favorable circumstances. The most enlightened nations, the Greeks and Romans, were left to pursue the inquiry, and failed no less than the most degraded tribes of people. The trial was made for four thousand years, and attended with the same results everywhere.

(2) It showed the need of revelation to guide man.

(3) It evinced, beyond the possibility of mistake, the depravity of man. In all nations, in all circumstances, people had shown the same alienation from God. By suffering them to walk in their own ways, it was seen that those ways were sin, and that some power more than human was necessary to bring people back to God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 14:16. Who in times past suffered all nations, c.] The words παντα τα εθνη, which we here translate, all nations, should be rendered, all the Gentiles, merely to distinguish them from the Jewish people: who having a revelation, were not left to walk in their own ways but the heathens, who had not a revelation, were suffered to form their creed, and mode of worship, according to their own caprice.