Acts 2:35

Until I make thy foes thy footstool.

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Word by word — the Greek

Word	Greek	Strong’s	Meaning
Until	ἕως he'ōs	G2193	a conjunction · preposition
make	θῶ thō	G5087	to place (in the widest application · verb — second aorist active subjunctive, 1st person singular
thy	σοῦ soû	G4675	of thee
foes	ἐχθρούς echthrous	G2190	hateful (passively · noun — accusative plural masculine
thy	σοῦ soû	G4675	of thee
footstool	ὑποπόδιον hupopodion	G5286	something under the feet · noun — accusative singular neuter

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Cross-references

Romans 16:20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Revelation 19:19-20:3 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and agai…
Isaiah 60:14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the sol…
Isaiah 59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recomp…
Revelation 20:8-15 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the n…
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his hee…
Psalms 18:40-42 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
Psalms 72:9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Acts 2:14-36

We have here the first-fruits of the Spirit in the sermon which Peter preached immediately, directed, not to those of other nations in a strange language (we are not told what answer he gave to those that were amazed, and said, What meaneth this?) but to the Jews in the vulgar language, even to those that mocked; for he begins with the notice of that (Act 2:15), and addresses his discourse (Act 2:14) to the men of Judea and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; but we have reason enough to think that the other disciples continued to speak to those who understood them (and therefore flocked about them), in the languages of their respective countries, the wonderful works of God. And it was not by Pete…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 2:29

David . . . is . . . dead and buried, &c.--Peter, full of the Holy Ghost, sees in this sixteenth Psalm, one Holy Man, whose life of high devotedness and lofty spirituality is crowned with the assurance, that though He taste of death, He shall rise again without seeing corruption, and be admitted to the bliss of God's immediate presence. Now as this was palpably untrue of David, it could be meant only of One other, even of Him whom David was taught to expect as the final Occupant of the throne of Israel. (Those, therefore, and they are many, who take David himself to be the subject of this Psalm, and the words quoted to refer to Christ only in a more eminent sense, nullify the whole argument…

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Adam Clarke on Acts 2:35

Until I make thy foes thy footstool - It was usual with conquerors to put their feet on the necks of vanquished leaders, as emblematical of the state of subjection to which they were reduced, and the total extinction of their power. By quoting these words, Peter shows the Jews, who continued enemies to Christ, that their discomfiture and ruin must necessarily take place, their own king and prophet having predicted this in connection with the other things which had already been so literally and circumstantially fulfilled. This conclusion had the desired effect, when pressed home with the strong application in the following verse.

The Church Fathers

And he sets before them a fear by the phrase, "until I make your enemies." And so that they may not disbelieve, he assigns the submission to the Father.
— Oecumenius, Commentary on Acts

"Until I make your enemies your footstool." This is what Peter elsewhere said about the Lord: "Whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things" (Acts III). For then, when all times of refreshing come from the presence of the Lord, He will send Jesus Christ, who was preached to us from royal thrones, to judge the living and the dead (Wisdom XVIII).
— Bede, Commentary on Acts

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Dictionary and topics

Apostle — A person sent by another; a messenger; envoy. This word is once used as a descriptive designation of Jesus Christ, the Sent of the Father (Heb. 3:1; John 20:21). It is, however, generally used as…
Joel — Jehovah is his God. (1.) The oldest of Samuel’s two sons appointed by him as judges in Beersheba (1 Sam. 8:2). (See VASHNI.) (2.) A descendant of Reuben (1 Chr. 5:4, 8). (3.) One of David’s famous…
Messiah — (Heb. mashiah), in all the thirty-nine instances of its occurring in the Old Testament, is rendered by the LXX. “Christos.” It means anointed. Thus priests (Ex. 28:41; 40:15; Num. 3:3), prophets (1…
Pentecost — I.e., “fiftieth”, found only in the New Testament (Acts 2:1; 20:16; 1 Cor. 16:8). The festival so named is first spoken of in Ex. 23:16 as “the feast of harvest,” and again in Ex. 34:22 as “the day…
Confessing Christ · Exemplified: Peter — Exemplified: Peter
Orator · .The apostles — .The apostles
Preaching · .By Peter and other apostles — .By Peter and other apostles
Revivals · .At Pentecost, and times after Pentecost — .At Pentecost, and times after Pentecost
Stool · .Enemies of Jesus — .Enemies of Jesus

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Acts 2:35

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Acts 2:14-36

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 2:29

Adam Clarke on Acts 2:35

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Acts 2:35

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Acts 2:14-36

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 2:29

Adam Clarke on Acts 2:35

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Acts 2:35

John Calvin on Acts 2:32-36

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Acts 2:34-35