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Acts 2:35

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2:35 until I make your enemies a footstool 1  for your feet.”’ 2 

Acts 13:51

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13:51 So after they shook 3  the dust off their feet 4  in protest against them, they went to Iconium. 5 
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[2:35]  1 sn The metaphor make your enemies a footstool portrays the complete subjugation of the enemies.

[2:35]  2 sn A quotation from Ps 110:1, one of the most often-cited OT passages in the NT, pointing to the exaltation of Jesus.

[13:51]  3 tn The participle ἐκτιναξάμενοι (ektinaxamenoi) is taken temporally. It could also be translated as a participle of attendant circumstance (“So they shook…and went”).

[13:51]  4 sn Shaking the dust off their feet was a symbolic gesture commanded by Jesus to his disciples, Matt 10:14; Mark 6:11; Luke 9:5. It shows a group of people as culpable before God.

[13:51]  5 sn Iconium was a city in Lycaonia about 90 mi (145 km) east southeast of Pisidian Antioch. It was the easternmost city of Phrygia.



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