Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
"Is it not they that blaspheme?" etc. as in James 2:6 [ALFORD]. Rich heathen must here chiefly be meant; for none others would directly blaspheme the name of Christ. Only indirectly rich Christians can be meant, who, by their inconsistency, caused His name to be blasphemed; so Ezekiel 36:21-22; Romans 2:24. Besides, there were few rich Jewish Christians at Jerusalem (Romans 15:26). They who dishonor God's name by wilful and habitual sin, "take (or bear) the Lord's name in vain" (compare Proverbs 30:9, with Exodus 20:7).
that worthy name--which is "good before the Lord's saints" (Psalms 52:9; Psalms 54:6); which ye pray may be "hallowed" (Matthew 6:9), and "by which ye are called," literally, "which was invoked" or, "called upon by you" (compare Genesis 48:16; Isaiah 4:1, Margin; Acts 15:17), so that at your baptism "into the name" (so the Greek, Matthew 28:19) of Christ, ye became Christ's people (1 Corinthians 3:23).
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1 Timothy 1:20
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