Acts 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. is the word which sets forth the sense of duty. It differs from all the other words of the language save those of cognate meaning — a word without moods, tenses, conjugation, above time, space, and circumstance, a word like eternity, perfect and complete in itself. Ought! Whence came it? Not from time, for it is not subject to the laws of time as other words; it is a stray word from eternity. In virtue of this word, the central word of conscience, man is in eternity, and eternity is in man. This word "ought," or, if you like, the truth which this word symbolises, the momentous truth of duty and obligation, is a "great light" hung up in the sky of the soul for ever; and however bright the lustre of the sun in the material firmament of the senses, it pales by the side of the exceeding brightness of the "great light which rules the day" in the inner heavens of the spirit. (J. Cynddylan Jones, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.WEB: But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men. |
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