of the Gospel by Christ, Mark 1:15, and practically in the first proclamation of the Gospel by the Apostles, Acts 2:38. Comp. carefully Acts 20:21. Lightfoot, Col. 1:28. ‘Repentance from dead works’ gives the negative, ‘faith towards God’ gives the positive side of the Christian mind. The old must be abandoned, the new must be grasped. μετανοίας ἀπὸ νεκρὼν ἔργων] The force of this unique expression depends upon the sense of ‘dead works’ (νεκρὰ ἔργα, Vulg. opera mortua), a phrase which occurs
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