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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Acts 11:26
A whole year. A.D. 44; they continued the work with great success.
The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch. The Jews
called them "Nazarenes" (Acts 24:5) or "Galileans" (Acts 2:7). They
called themselves "disciples" (Acts 6:1, etc.), "brethren" (Acts 6:3,
etc.) "saints" (Acts 9:13 26:10). The new term was probably
bestowed by the Gentiles in the great city, in default of any other
name that seemed appropriate. Here was the first great Gentile church.
Outsiders could see that they were not Jews nor pagans, hence they
called them after their Lord, just as the first disciples of Plato were
called Platonists, and those of Epicurus, Epicureans. The designation
"Christians" occurs only twice elsewhere in the New Testament
(Acts 26:28 1Pe 4:16), and in both places its use is ascribed to
those out of the church; yet it was accepted as honoring the Lord.
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