For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
For the promise - of the Holy Spirit, the grand blessing of the new covenant (Joel 2:28-29) which was to descend upon the Church from the risen and glorified Saviour (see the notes at John 7:37-39),
Is unto you, and to your children - of the seed of Abraham; and-next after you (for the rule was, "to the Jew first"),
To all that are afar off - meaning the Gentiles, who are expressly so described in Isaiah 57:19 (quoted in Ephesians 2:13; Ephesians 2:17). Meyer and others object to this view of the "far off," because Peter did not until long after this come to see the right of the Gentiles to admission to the Church. But this is to mistake the fact; because Peter had no difficulty about the admission of circumcised Gentiles, but only about their admissibility, simply as believers, without circumcision. Meyer's own interpretation of the "far off," as meaning the foreign Jews, is to be rejected on this additional ground, that a large number of that very class were among the persons addressed.
Even as many as the Lord our God shall call, х proskaleseetai (G4341)] - 'shall call to Himself,' or bring to hear the joyful sound.