27 [a]For I have kept nothing back, but have showed you all the counsel of God.

28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, whereof the holy Ghost hath made you Overseers to [b]feed the Church of God which [c]he hath purchased with [d]that his own blood.

29 [e]For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 20:27 The doctrine of the Apostles is most perfect and absolute.
  2. Acts 20:28 To keep it, to feed it, and govern it.
  3. Acts 20:28 A notable sentence for Christ’s Godhead: which showeth plainly in his person, how that by reason of the joining together of the two natures in his own person, that which is proper to one is spoken of the other being taken in the derivative, and not in the primitive: which in old time the godly fathers termed a communicating or fellowship of proprieties, that is to say, a making common of that to two, which belongeth but to one.
  4. Acts 20:28 This word, That showeth the excellency of this blood.
  5. Acts 20:29 A prophecy of pastors that should straightway degenerate into wolves against such as boast and brag only of a succession of persons.

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