John Gill's Exposition on Acts 8:29

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Then the Spirit said unto Philip, etc.] Not the angel, a ministering Spirit, as in (<440826>Acts 8:26) but the Holy Spirit, as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions read, the same with the Spirit of the Lord, (<440839>Acts 8:39) who spoke unto him, either by an articulative voice, such as was the Bath Kol among the Jews; or inwardly, by a secret impulse upon him, he directed him, saying: go near, and join thyself to this chariot; he bid him make up to the chariot, he saw driving on the road at such a distance, and follow it, and attend it closely; and not leave it, till an opportunity of conversing with the person in it offered.

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