Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, х epistrepsate (G1994)] - or, 'turn ye,'
That your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord, х hopoos (G3704) an (G302) elthoosin (G2064) kairoi (G2540) anapsuxeoos (G403)]. It should be 'in order that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;' as nearly every good interpreter admits, and as our translators themselves render this very phrase in Luke 2:35. The rendering "when" has been borrowed from the Vulgate ('ut cum') and Beza ('post-quam'); but Beza's examples and those of Scholefield (who alone now defends it) are not in point; and that rendering is certainly inaccurate. The 'seasons of refreshing' here meant are, as we think, that definite and, to the Jewish mind, familiar period of lengthened repose, prosperity, and joy, which all the prophets hold forth to the distracted Church and a miserable world, as eventually to come, and which is here, as it is in all the prophets, made to turn upon the national conversion of Israel.