Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Ver. 10. Be it known unto you all] Here was spiritual mettle, steeling the soul against whatsoever opposition. When a man's strength would fall loose, the spirit hems him about, comprehends and keeps him together, Acts 20:22, and makes him more than a man: as it did the apostles here, and afterwards Athanasius, Luther, others, and qui totius orbis impetum sustinuerunt, who stood out against a world of adversaries. (Tertul.)