Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 5:20

20 Go , stand and speak in the temple to the people , all the words of this life.

The word implies courage and stedfastness of mind, as well as such a posture of the body.

Without preferring some acceptable truths, before others more ingrateful, it necessary towards their Salvation: Christ for a time did limit them; they might not tell any that he was Jesus the Christ, Matth. 16.20. nor the vision which they had seen in his transfiguration, Matth. 17.9. Now this prohibition is taken off. Thus the Sun does not shine in his full glory all at once.

Some admit of an Hypailage, and joyn the pronoun to the other substantive, reading in this place, These words of life; and the rather because by this life, is ordinarily understood the present, temporary life, as in 1 Cor. 15.19. but there needs not this translatiti[illegible: 1 letter]us sense; by this life, the Angel might very well understand eternal life and Salvation, for that was it which the Sadduces denied, and for the Preaching of which life the Apostles were imprisoned.