The Book of ACTS

WALTER M. DUNNETT

The flow, feel, and meaning of the Book of Acts, and its relevance to Christian thought and life today, comes through unmistakably in this commentary. Undergraduate Bible stu-dents will find it both stimulating and understandable.

The text of the Book of Act has been thoroughly outlined, and this provides the skeleton, the flesh for which is the com mentary. Each verse receives comment. The reader who knows no Greek can comprehend the commentary: the reader who knows at least some Greek will find occasional reference to Greek words (always transliterated) and per-vasive evidence of the author's study of the original text. Footnotes furnish ample documentation.

Luke, the author of Acts, gave the book a dual framework. according to the commentator: geographical and biograph-ical. In the first twelve chapters. Palestine and Peter dominate; in the last sixteen, the Gentile world and Paul.

More specifically, the commentary is divided into five parts (1) introduction; (2) beg