Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 11:24

24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost, and of faith, and much people was added unto the Lord.

Barnabas is here described to be beyond what the Iews called a Righteous Man, who would [illegible: 1 letter]ay to his Neighbour, That which is yours, is yours; and that which is mine, is mine: meaning such as would do no wrong. But Barnabas, as the good Man in their esteem, (such an one as the Apostle, Rom 5.7. speaks of, for whom one would dare to die) had actually made, and not called only, that which was his, his poor Neighbours, selling what he had to bestow upon them, as Chap. 4.36.

His good works accompanying his good preaching, might be a great means of the Conversion of so many.

Marginal references: Chap. 6.5.