Acts 4:36 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

The next chapter should begin here.

Joses. Texts read Joseph, as in Acts 1:23.

Barnabas. It is possible that Joseph Barnabas, or

Barnabas. It is possible that Joseph Barnabas, or Barnabbas, is the same as Joseph Barsabbas of Acts 1:23, and that he was reserved for. better lot by the Holy Spirit.

son. App-108. See note on Acts 3:25.

consolation. Greek. exhortation. Greek. paraklesis has both meanings. See Luke 2:25; Luke 6:24; 1 Corinthians 14:3.

of the country of Cyprus. a Cypriote by race.

Acts 4:36

36 And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,