Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 13:46

46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you , and judge your selves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

Being nothing affrighted with the reproaches and blasphemies they met with, which but increase their zeal, as a little water does the fire in the Smiths forge.

There was a necessity, that the word of God should be first Preached to the Iews, 1. Because Christ was promised to the children and heirs of their Ancestors. 2. Because Christ did command it to be thus Preached, Matth. 10.5, 6. Luke 24.47 Chap. 1.8. 3 Christ himself thus Preached it, declaring that he was not sent, (comparatively) but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, Matth. 15.24.

By this their contradicting and blaspheming, they shew as evidently that they are thus unworthy of everlasting life, as if a judge had determined so, or passed such a sentence upon his Tribunal, or Judgment-seat.

Marginal references: Chap. 3.26. Rom. 1.16.; Exod. 32.10. Isaiah 55.5. Matth. 21.43. Rom. 10.19.; Chap. 18.6. and 28.2[illegible: 1 letter].