Even with these words, Paul and Barnabas could hardly stop the crowds from sacrificing to them.
18. When they had said thus. Luke said before that they did not only use words, but they ran also with violence into the multitude. “Sed etiam cure impetu irruisse in turbam,” but also rushed impetuously among the multitude. Now he addeth, that the fury of the people was scarce appeased “Repressum,” repressed. with that vehemency, whereby appeareth how mad and untamed the heat of the world is toward idolatry.
In these verses we have, I. A miraculous cure wrought by Paul at Lystra upon a cripple that had been lame from his birth, such a one as was miraculously cured by Peter and John, Act 3:2. That introduced the gospel among the Jews, this among the Gentiles; both that and this were designed to represent the impotency of all the children of men in...
Commenting on Acts 14:8-18
And with these sayings,.... Concerning themselves, and concerning the living God, his creation of all things, and his providential goodness: scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them; so resolute were they upon it, that it was with great difficulty that they persuaded them from it: in four of Beza's manuscripts, and in some other copies, it is added, "but...