And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. And with many other words did he testify and exhort. This shows that we have here not the whole of what Peter addressed to the multitude, though what is given is doubtless reported as he uttered it; and, from the following clause, it would seem pretty clear that only the more practical parts of the discourse-only the home appeals with which the discourse was wound up-are omitted, the burden of them, as given in the words immediately following, being deemed enough.
Saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation - as if Peter, already foreseeing the hopeless impenitence of the nation at large, would have his hearers press in immediately for themselves, and so secure their own salvation.