Acts 13:41

“Behold, ye despisers, etc.] In (<350105>Habakkuk 1:5) from whence these words are taken: we render it with others, “behold ye among the Heathen”; as if the word µywgb, was compounded of b “in”, and µywg, “nations” or “Heathens”; and so reads the Chaldee paraphrase, “look among the people”; but the Septuagint version renders it, “behold, ye despisers”; which the apostle is thought to follow; wherefore some have imagined a different reading, and that the Septuagint, instead of µywgb reads µydgwb, the singular of which is used in (<350205>Habakkuk 2:5) and there rendered a “despiser” in the same version: but it should be observed, that the Septuagint is not the only version that so renders the…”

“ye will not believe though a man declare it unto you--that is, even on unexceptionable testimony. The words, from Hab 1:5, were originally a merciful but fruitless warning against the approaching destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans and the Babylonish captivity. As such nothing could more fitly describe the more awful calamity impending over the generation which the apostle addressed.”

“Behold, ye despisers - Hebrew, “Behold, ye among the pagan.” The change from this expression to “ye despisers” was made by the Septuagint translators by a very slight alteration in the Hebrew word - probably from a variation in the copy which they used. It arose from reading בּוגדים bowgadiym instead of בגּוים bagowyim. The Syriac, the Arabic, as well as the Septuagint, follow this reading. And wonder - Hebrew, “And regard, and wonder marvelously.” And perish - Thin is not in the Hebrew, but is in the Septuagint and the Arabic. The word means literally “to be removed from the sight; to disappear; and then to corrupt, defile, destroy,” Matthew 6:16, Matthew 6:19. The word, however, may mean…”

“I work a work which ye will in nowise believe - This was originally spoken to those, who would not believe that God would ever deliver them from the power of the Chaldeans. But it is applicable to any who will not believe the promises, or the works of God. Hab 1:5. Acts 13:42”

“ye despisers: Pro 1:24-32, Pro 5:12; Isa 5:24, Isa 28:14-22; Luk 16:14, Luk 23:35; Heb 10:28-30 for: Act 13:47, Act 3:23, Act 6:14, Act 22:21; Isa 65:15; Dan 9:26, Dan 9:27; Mat 8:10, Mat 8:11, Mat 21:41-44; Mat 22:7-10, Mat 23:34-38; Luk 19:42-44, Luk 21:20-26; Rom 11:7-14; Eph 3:3-8; Col 1:26, Col 1:27; Th1 2:16; Pe1 4:17 Acts 13:42”