Mga Gawa 9:15

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15 Apan ang Ginoo miingon kaniya, "Umadto ka, kay siya pinili nga galamiton ko sa pagdala sa akong ngalan sa atubangan sa mga Gentil ug sa mga hari ug sa mga anak ni Israel;

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Go: Exodus 4:12-14, Jeremiah 1:7, Jonah 3:1, Jonah 3:2

a chosen: Acts 13:2, Jeremiah 1:5, John 15:16, Romans 1:1, Romans 9:21-24, Galatians 1:1, Galatians 1:15, Galatians 1:16, 2 Timothy 1:11, 2 Timothy 2:4, 2 Timothy 2:20, 2 Timothy 2:21, Revelation 17:14

to bear: Acts 21:19, Acts 22:21, Acts 26:17-20, Romans 1:5, Romans 1:13-15, Romans 11:13, Romans 15:15-21, 1 Corinthians 15:10, Galatians 2:7, Galatians 2:8, Ephesians 3:7, Ephesians 3:8, Colossians 1:25-29, 1 Timothy 2:7

and kings: Acts 25:22-27, Acts 26:1-11, Acts 27:24, Matthew 10:18, 2 Timothy 4:16, 2 Timothy 4:17

the children: Acts 28:17-31

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:28 - the table Exodus 37:4 - staves Exodus 38:7 - to bear it withal 1 Samuel 21:5 - the vessels 2 Chronicles 4:4 - three Psalms 106:5 - may see Isaiah 42:1 - he shall Isaiah 60:9 - unto Isaiah 62:2 - the Gentiles Micah 5:7 - as a dew Luke 14:23 - Go Acts 2:21 - whosoever Acts 9:6 - Arise Acts 9:17 - the Lord Acts 10:20 - and get Acts 13:47 - so Acts 15:7 - God Acts 20:24 - and the Acts 22:14 - hath Acts 25:23 - at Acts 26:16 - to make Romans 1:14 - debtor Romans 3:29 - General Romans 10:15 - And how Romans 15:16 - I should 1 Corinthians 9:1 - I not an 1 Corinthians 9:16 - for Ephesians 3:2 - the dispensation Philippians 3:12 - apprehended 1 Thessalonians 4:4 - his 1 Timothy 1:1 - by 1 Timothy 1:12 - putting

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the Lord said unto him, go thy way,.... The Syriac version reads, "arise, go thy way"; make no delay, nor any excuse, there is no reason for it; nothing is to be feared from him:

for he is a chosen vessel unto me; a choice and excellent one, full of the heavenly treasure of the Gospel, full of the gifts and graces of the Spirit, and so very fit and richly qualified for the use and service of Christ; and was כלי חמדתה, "a vessel of desire", or a desirable one, as the Jews speak n: or he was, to render the words literally, "a vessel of election"; both an instrument gathering in the election, or the elect of God, through the preaching of the Gospel; and was himself chosen of God, both to grace and glory, a vessel of mercy, and of honour prepared for glory; and was separated, predestinated, and appointed to the Gospel of God, to preach it among the Gentiles; which sense is confirmed by what follows:

to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel; by "the name" of Christ is meant his Gospel, which is a declaration of his person, perfections, glories, and excellencies, of his offices, grace, righteousness, and salvation; and to "bear" it, is to preach it, to carry it about, spread abroad, and propagate it; in allusion either to the prophets of old, whose prophecies are often called a "burden", which they bore and carried to the several nations to whom they were sent; or to the Levites bearing the tabernacle of the Lord, and its vessels, "be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord", Isaiah 52:11. Upon which Aben Ezra has this note,

"they are the Israelites, נושאי התורה, "that bear the law";''

but Saul was a chosen vessel to bear the Gospel; or to the sower of seed, Psalms 126:6 "before the Gentiles", or nations of the world; and he was an apostle, and teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity; the Gospel of the uncircumcision was particularly committed to him: and before "kings", as he did before Agrippa, king of the Jews, and before Nero, emperor of Rome; and his bonds for the Gospel, and so the Gospel through his bonds became manifest in all the palace, or court of Caesar. And before

the children of Israel; the Jews, to whom he first preached it; but when they put it away he turned to the Gentiles, and afterwards, before the Jews, he bore a testimony for it.

n T. Bab. Megilla, fol. 6. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Go thy way - This is often the only answer that we obtain to the suggestion of our doubts and hesitations about duty. God tells us still to do what he requires, with an assurance only that his commands are just, and that there are good reasons for them.

A chosen vessel - The usual meaning of the word “vessel” is well known. It commonly denotes a “cup or basin,” such as is used in a house. It then denotes “any instrument which may be used to accomplish a purpose, perhaps particularly with the notion of conveying or communicating.” In the Scriptures it is used to denote the “instrument” or “agent” which God employs to convey his favors to mankind, and is thus employed to represent the ministers of the gospel, 2Co 4:7; 1 Thessalonians 4:4. Compare Isaiah 10:5-7. Paul is called “chosen” because Christ had “selected” him, as he did his other apostles, for this service. See the notes on John 15:16.

To bear my name - To communicate the knowledge of me.

Before the Gentiles - The nations; all who were not Jews. This was the principal employment of Paul. He spent his life in this, and regarded himself as especially called to be the apostle of the Gentiles, Romans 11:13; Romans 15:16; Galatians 2:8.

And kings - This was fulfilled, Acts 25:23, etc.; Acts 26:32; Acts 27:24.

And the children of Israel - The Jews. This was done. He immediately began to preach to them, Acts 9:20-22. Wherever he went, he preached the gospel first to them, and then to the Gentiles, Acts 13:46; Acts 28:17.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 9:15. Go thy way — He was thus prevented from going farther in his reasoning on this subject.

He is a chosen vessel unto me — The word σκευος in Greek, and כלי keley in Hebrew, though they literally signify a vessel, yet they are both used to signify any kind of instrument, or the means by which an act is done. In the Tract. Sohar Exod. fol. 87, on these words of Boaz to Ruth, Ruth 2:9, When thou art athirst, go unto the vessels and drink, c., there are these remarkable words ." כלי keley, vessels that is, the righteous, who are called the vessels or instruments of Jehovah; for it is decreed that the whole world shall bring gifts to the King Messiah; and these are the vessels of the Lord: vessels, I say, which the holy and blessed God uses, although they be brittle; but they are brittle only in this world, that they may establish the law and the worship with which the holy and blessed God is worshipped in this world; neither can this ministry be exercised but by vessels or instruments."

This mode of speech was common also among the Greek and Roman writers. So POLYBIUS, speaking of Damocles, Excerpta, vol. iii. lib. 13, [Edit. Ernesti,] says, Ην ὑπηρετικον σκευος, και πολλας εχων εφορμας εις πραγματων οικονομιαν. "He was a useful instrument, and fit for the management of affairs." We find Paul, in 1 Thessalonians 4:4, using the same word, σκευος, for the body, agreeable to the expression of Lucretius, iii. 441, Corpus, quod VAS quasi constitit ejus. "The BODY, which is the VESSEL or instrument of the soul." See Bp. Pearce on this passage.

Chosen vessel. - σκευος εκλογης is properly a Hebraism, for an excellent or well-adapted instrument. Every reader of the Bible must have noticed how often the word chosen is used there to signify excelling or eminent: so we use the word choice, "choice men," eminent persons; "choice things," excellent articles. So in Jeremiah 22:7: They shall cut down the choice cedars, וכרתו מבחר ארזיך vecaretu MIBCHAR arazeyca; και εκκοψουσι τας εκλεκτας κεδρους σου, SEPT. They shall cut the most EXCELLENT of thy cedars; or thy cedar trees, which are the most excellent of their kind, they will cut down. Whoever considers the character of St. Paul, his education, attainments in natural knowledge, the distinguished part he took-first against Christianity, and afterwards, on the fullest conviction, the part he took in its favour-will at once perceive how well he was every way qualified for the great work to which God had called him.

To bear my name before the Gentiles — To carry the ensign of the cross among the Greeks and Romans; and, by the demonstration of the Spirit, to confound their wisdom and learning, and prove that neither salvation nor happiness could be found in any other. Hence he was emphatically called, the apostle of the Gentiles, 1 Timothy 2:7; 2 Timothy 1:11. See also Galatians 2:7-8, and Ephesians 3:8.