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And All That Believed Were Together

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 19, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 16.

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And All That Believed Were Together

"AND all that believed were together."—It is not necessary to suppose that they all lived in one place; indeed, such a thing is hardly supposable, when we remember that to the three thousand converts gained on Pentecost, others were added daily. The meaning is that they were united, of one mind. Their belief shut them off in a large measure from association with the mass of the Jews, and they were naturally driven into one another's society. Besides, the religion that they had just professed would tend to draw them together. Christ's prayer for his disciples was that they might all be one. John 17:21. "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren." 1 John 3:14.
"And had all things common."—We must not