Acts 4:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

But that it be noysed no farther among the people, let vs threaten and charge them, that they speake hencefoorth to no man in this Name.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλʼ ἵνα μὴ ἐπὶ πλεῖον διανεμηθῇ εἰς τὸν λαόν, ἀπειλῇ ἀπειλησώμεθα αὐτοῖς, μηκέτι λαλεῖν ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι τούτῳ μηδενὶ ἀνθρώπων.

Transliteration

But hina not epi pleion dianemēthē to the laon, apeilē apeilēsōmetha them, no longer lalein epi the onomati this to no one of anthrōpōn.

Grammar Details

• *hina*: conjunction - that/so that
• *epi*: preposition + dative - on/in/about
• *pleion*: accusative, neuter, comparative - more/further
• *dianemēthē*: aorist passive subjunctive, 3rd singular - may be spread
• *laon*: accusative, masculine, singular - people
• *apeilē*: dative, feminine, singular - with a threat
• *apeilēsōmetha*: aorist middle subjunctive, 1st plural - let us threaten
• *lalein*: present active infinitive - to speak
• *onomati*: dative, neuter, singular - name
• *anthrōpōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - men/people

Word Meanings

• *pleion*: more/further/any more
• *dianemēthē*: may be spread/distributed/disseminated
• *apeilē* *apeilēsōmetha*: let us strictly threaten/threaten with a threat [Hebraism]
• *lalein*: to speak/talk/preach
• *epi*: on/in/about/concerning

Referenced Verses

• Acts 5:28 : 28 Saying, Did not we straightly commaund you, that ye should not teach in this Name? & behold, ye haue filled Hierusale with your doctrine, and ye would bring this mans blood vpon vs.
• Acts 5:39-40 : 39 But if it be of God, ye can not destroy it, lest ye be found euen fighters against God. 40 And to him they agreed, and called the Apostles: and when they had beaten them, they commaunded that they should not speake in the Name of Iesus, and let them goe.
• Rom 10:16-18 : 16 But they haue not all obeyed ye Gospel: for Esaias saith, Lord, who hath beleeued our report? 17 Then faith is by hearing, and hearing by the worde of God. 18 But I demaund, Haue they not heard? No doubt their sound went out through all the earth, and their wordes into the endes of the worlde.
• Rom 15:18-22 : 18 For I dare not speake of any thing, which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient in worde and deede, 19 With the power of signes and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God: so that from Hierusalem, and round about vnto Illyricum, I haue caused to abound the Gospel of Christ. 20 Yea, so I enforced my selfe to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should haue built on another mans foundation. 21 But as it is written, To whome hee was not spoken of, they shall see him, and they that heard not, shall vnderstand him. 22 Therefore also I haue bene oft let to come vnto you:
• 1 Thess 1:8 : 8 For from you sounded out the worde of the Lord, not in Macedonia and in Achaia only: but your faith also which is toward God, spred abroad in all quarters, that we neede not to speake any thing.
• 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 Who both killed the Lord Iesus & their owne Prophets, & haue persecuted vs away, and God they please not, and are contrary to all men, 16 And forbid vs to preach vnto the Gentiles, that they might be saued, to fulfill their sinnes alwayes: for the wrath of God is come on them, to the vtmost.
• 2 Chr 25:15-16 : 15 Wherefore the Lorde was wroth with Amaziah, and sent vnto him a Prophet, which sayd vnto him, Why hast thou sought the gods of the people, which were not able to deliuer their owne people out of thine hand? 16 And as he talked with him, he said vnto him, Haue they made thee the Kings counseler? cease thou: why should they smite thee? And the Prophet ceased, but said, I knowe that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not obeyed my counsell.
• Ps 2:1-4 : 1 Why doe the heathen rage, & the people murmure in vaine? 2 The Kings of the earth band themselues, and the princes are assembled together against the Lord, and against his Christ. 3 Let vs breake their bands, and cast their cordes from vs. 4 But he that dwelleth in the heauen, shall laugh: the Lord shall haue them in derision.
• Isa 30:8-9 : 8 Now go, and write it before them in a table, and note it in a booke that it may be for the last day for euer and euer: 9 That it is a rebellious people, lying children, and children that would not heare the law of the Lord. 10 Which say vnto the Seers, See not: and to the Prophets, Prophecie not vnto vs right things: but speake flattering things vnto vs: prophecie errours. 11 Depart out of the way: go aside out of the path: cause the holy one of Israel to cease fro vs.
• Jer 20:1-3 : 1 When Pashur, the sonne of Immer, the Priest, which was appointed gouernour in the house of the Lorde, heard that Ieremiah prophecied these things, 2 Then Pashur smote Ieremiah the Prophet, and put him in the stockes that were in the hie gate of Beniamin which was by the House of the Lorde. 3 And on the morning, Pashur brought Ieremiah out of the stockes. Then said Ieremiah vnto him, The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.
• Jer 29:25-32 : 25 Thus speaketh the Lorde of hostes, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy Name vnto all the people, that are at Ierusalem, and to Zephaniah the sonne of Maaseiah the Priest, and to all the Priests, saying, 26 The Lorde hath made thee Priest for Iehoiada the Priest, that yee should bee officers in the House of the Lorde, for euery man that raueth and maketh himselfe a Prophet, to put him in prison and in the stockes. 27 Nowe therefore why hast not thou reproued Ieremiah of Anathoth, which prophecieth vnto you? 28 For, for this cause hee sent vnto vs in Babel, saying, This captiuitie is long: buyld houses to dwell in, and plant gardens, and eate the fruites of them. 29 And Zephaniah the Priest red this letter in the eares of Ieremiah the Prophet. 30 Then came the worde of the Lorde vnto Ieremiah, saying, 31 Send to all them of the captiuitie, saying, Thus saith the Lorde of Shemaiah the Nehelamite, Because that Shemaiah hath prophecied vnto you, and I sent him not, and hee caused you to trust in a lye, 32 Therefore thus saieth the Lord, Behold, I wil visite Shemaiah the Nehelamite, & his seede: hee shall not haue a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he beholde the good, that I will doe for my people, sayth the Lorde, because he hath spoken rebelliously against the Lorde.
• Jer 38:4 : 4 Therefore the Princes sayd vnto the King, We beseech you, let this man be put to death: for thus hee weakeneth the hands of the men of warre that remaine in this citie, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such wordes vnto them: for this man seeketh not the wealth of this people, but the hurt.
• Dan 2:34-35 : 34 Thou beheldest it til a stone was cut without hands, which smote the image vpon his feete, that were of yron and clay, and brake them to pieces. 35 Then was the yron, the clay, the brasse, the siluer and the golde broken all together, and became like the chaffe of the sommer floures, and the winde caryed them away, that no place was founde for them: and the stone that smote the image, became a great mountaine, and filled the whole earth.
• Amos 2:12 : 12 But ye gaue the Nazarites wine to drinke, and commanded the Prophetes, saying, Prophecie not.
• Amos 7:12-17 : 12 Also Amaziah sayde vnto Amos, O thou the Seer, goe, flee thou away into the land of Iudah, & there eate thy bread and prophecie there. 13 But prophecie no more at Beth-el: for it is the Kings chappel, and it is the Kings court. 14 Then answered Amos, & said to Amaziah, I was no Prophet, neither was I a prophets sonne, but I was an herdman, & a gatherer of wilde figs. 15 And the Lord tooke me as I followed the flocke, and the Lord said vnto me, Go, prophecie vnto my people Israel. 16 Now therefore heare thou the word of the Lord. Thou sayest, Prophecie not against Israel, & speake nothing against the house of Izhak. 17 Therefore thus sayth the Lord, Thy wife shall be an harlot in the citie, and thy sonnes and thy daughters shal fall by the sword, and thy land shall be deuided by line: and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel shal surely go into captiuitie forth of his land.
• Mic 2:6-7 : 6 They that prophecied, Prophecie ye not. They shall not prophecie to them, neither shall they take shame. 7 O thou that art named of the house of Iaakob, is the Spirite of the Lorde shortened? are these his workes? are not my wordes good vnto him that walketh vprightly?
• Matt 27:64 : 64 Command therefore, that the sepulchre be made sure vntill the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steale him away, and say vnto the people, He is risen from the dead: so shall the last errour be worse then the first.
• John 11:47-48 : 47 Then gathered the hie Priests, & the Pharises a councill, and said, What shall we doe? For this man doeth many miracles. 48 If we let him thus alone, all men will beleeue in him, and the Romanes will come and take away both our place, and the nation.
• Acts 4:21 : 21 So they threatened them, and let them goe, and found nothing how to punish them, because of the people: for all men praised God for that which was done.
• Acts 4:29-30 : 29 And nowe, O Lorde, beholde their threatnings, and graunt vnto thy seruants with all boldnesse to speake thy word, 30 So that thou stretch forth thine hand, that healing, and signes, and wonders may be done by the Name of thine holy Sonne Iesus.
• Acts 5:24 : 24 Then when the chiefe Priest, and the captaine of the Temple, and the hie Priestes heard these things, they doubted of them, whereunto this would growe.