Have ye received. Literally If (App-118. a) ye received.
the Holy Ghost. Greek. pneuma hagion. No art. App-101.
since ye believed. having believed. App-150. There is no note of time, or sequence, any more than in Ephesians 1:13, "after. "See note there.
We have, &c. Literally But not even (Greek. oude) heard we if (App-118. a) holy spirit is (given). John taught the coming of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:11), and Paul that no one could believe without the enabling power of the Holy Spirit. Therefore the twelve men could not have questioned the existence of the Holy Spirit, and Paul would have rebuked them if they had. The reference must have been to the promised gifts.