THE Acts of the Apostles forms a fifth Gospel, and can be properly understood only in its relation, not alone to the narrative previously written by Luke, but to the whole fourfold Gospel which precedes it. We have our Lord Jesus Christ thus presented to us in five aspects of his blessed person and work, which remind us of his fivefold “name,” as given in prophecy. Matthew exhibits him as the “Wonderful” Messianic King; Luke as the gracious human “Counselor”*; Mark as the “Mighty God,”
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