Acts 13:41 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And perish:— And disappear, 'αφανισθητε. See the note on Matthew 6:16. Dr. Heylin reads the sentence, Consider, ye despisers; be amazed and utterly confounded. Instead of shall in no wise, &c. we ought to read, will, &c. The passage may be thus paraphrased: "Behold, ye scornful men who look with haughty contempt on that cornerstone which I lay in Zion, the judgment I will execute upon you is so terrible, that it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. In like manner too the prophet Habakkuk speaks, when he says, ch. Acts 1:5. Behold ye, and regard, and wonder marvellously, turn pale with terror, and disappear, as those that shall perish at once, and vanish (as it were) out of sight, consumed in a moment by the fierceness of my vengeance. For I perform a most amazing work in your days, even a work which ye shall not believe, if any one tell it to you."