Subject: are there multiple infillings? |
Bible Note: Greetings to you Makarios The following are the Commentaries of John Gill, on the verses in question. Acts 13:9 that he was filled with the Holy Ghost; which does not design the gifts and graces of the Holy Ghost in general, (WITH WHICH HE WAS ALWAYS FILLED), and thereby qualified for his work as an apostle; but in particular, that he had by the Spirit, not only a discerning of the wickedness of this man, but of the will of God, to make him at this time a public example of divine wrath and vengeance, for his opposition to the Gospel:; "Always filled, "Continually", not another in filling." Acts 13:52 And the disciples were filled with joy… Meaning either the "apostles", as the Ethiopic version renders it, Paul and Barnabas; who rejoiced, both at the success they had met with, and because they were counted worthy to suffer reproach and persecution for the sake of Christ and his Gospel: or rather the disciples at Antioch, and other parts of Pisidia, the new converts; who were filled with joy at the Gospel being preached unto them, and at the constancy and courage of the apostles in suffering for it: and with the Holy Ghost; which, with the former, designs the same thing as spiritual joy, or joy in the Holy Ghost; or else the gifts and graces of the Spirit, (WHICH THEY HAD BOTH FOR THEIR OWN COMFORT), and (THE ADVANTAGE OF OTHERS). "Which they had, not another in filling" Grace be unto you lightedsteps |