blessing of the nations is now made explicit by the quotation of the covenant with Abraham. From the passage as a whole, as well as in connexion with chapter 2 and with the accounts of the Gentile mission that follow later in Acts, it seems that Luke envisages the restoration of Israel as a process that has already begun with the formation of the Jerusalem church and which will be complete only at the parousia. The blessing of the Gentiles that follows from the restoration of Israel need not therefore