secundum Lucam 20:27

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Non enim subterfugi, quominus annuntiarem omne consilium Dei vobis.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Deinde dicit Thom� : Infer digitum tuum huc, et vide manus meas, et affer manum tuam, et mitte in latus meum : et noli esse incredulus, sed fidelis.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
non enim subterfugi, quominus annuntiarem omne consilium Dei vobis.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I have: Acts 20:20, Acts 20:35, Acts 26:22, Acts 26:23, 2 Corinthians 4:2, Galatians 1:7-10, Galatians 4:16, 1 Thessalonians 2:4

all: Acts 2:23, Psalms 32:11, Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 46:11, Jeremiah 23:22, Matthew 28:20, Luke 7:30, John 15:15, 1 Corinthians 11:23, Ephesians 1:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 40:19 - and the birds Exodus 6:29 - speak Exodus 7:2 - General Leviticus 10:11 - General Numbers 9:8 - I will Numbers 18:1 - shall bear Numbers 29:40 - General Deuteronomy 1:18 - General Deuteronomy 4:5 - General Deuteronomy 22:8 - thou bring Deuteronomy 31:30 - General Joshua 8:35 - was not Joshua 11:15 - he left nothing 2 Samuel 7:17 - General 1 Kings 22:14 - what the Lord 1 Chronicles 17:15 - According 2 Chronicles 18:7 - me 2 Chronicles 18:13 - even what my God Job 6:10 - have not concealed Job 26:3 - plentifully Psalms 40:10 - not hid Psalms 107:11 - contemned Proverbs 14:25 - General Isaiah 21:10 - that which Isaiah 58:1 - spare Jeremiah 1:7 - for thou shalt Jeremiah 1:17 - and speak Jeremiah 6:17 - I Jeremiah 7:27 - thou shalt speak Jeremiah 15:19 - let them Jeremiah 17:16 - that Jeremiah 19:2 - and proclaim Jeremiah 26:2 - all the words Jeremiah 34:6 - General Jeremiah 38:21 - this is Jeremiah 42:4 - I will keep Jeremiah 42:19 - know Jeremiah 42:21 - I have Jeremiah 43:1 - all the words Ezekiel 2:4 - Thus Ezekiel 3:11 - speak Ezekiel 3:18 - but Ezekiel 33:7 - thou shalt Ezekiel 33:8 - that wicked Ezekiel 40:4 - declare Matthew 10:14 - shake Mark 4:22 - General Mark 6:18 - It is Acts 4:11 - you Acts 4:29 - that Acts 18:6 - Your 1 Corinthians 2:4 - my speech 2 Corinthians 2:16 - the savour of death 2 Corinthians 2:17 - but as of sincerity Colossians 1:28 - warning 1 Thessalonians 4:1 - ye have 1 Thessalonians 5:14 - warn 1 Timothy 4:16 - thou shalt 2 Timothy 2:15 - rightly 2 Timothy 3:16 - and is James 3:1 - knowing 1 Peter 5:2 - which is among you 1 John 1:3 - declare

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. By which is meant, not the purposes and decrees of God, latent in his own breast, these the apostle could not declare; but his revealed will in the Gospel, concerning the salvation of men by Jesus Christ, even the whole of the Gospel, every truth and doctrine of it, necessary to salvation, and to the peace, joy, and comfort of the saints; together with all the ordinances of it, and everything that had any tendency to promote the glory of God, and the good of souls; see Luke 7:30 none of these things did the apostle withhold from the knowledge of the church at Ephesus, but freely imparted and communicated them to them; Luke 7:30- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For - This verse contains a reason for what had been said in the previous verse. It shows why Paul regarded himself as innocent if they should be lost.

I have not shunned - I have not kept back; I have not been deterred by fear, by the desire of popularity, by the fact that the doctrines of the gospel are unpalatable to people, from declaring them fully. The proper meaning of the word translated here, “I have not shunned” ὑπεστειλάμην hupesteilamēn, is “to disguise any important truth; to withdraw it from public view; to decline publishing it from fear, or an apprehension of the consequences.” Paul means that he had not disguised any truth; he had not withdrawn or kept it from open view, by any apprehension of the effect which it might have on their minds. Truth may be disguised or kept back:

1. By avoiding the subject altogether from timidity, or from an apprehension of giving offence if it is openly proclaimed; or,
2. By giving it too little prominency, so that it shall be lost in the multitude of other truths; or,
3. By presenting it amidst a web of metaphysical speculations, and entangling it with other subjects; or,
4. By making use of other terms than the Bible does, for the purpose of involving it in a mist, so that it cannot be understood.

People may resort to this course:

1. Because the truth itself is unpalatable;
2. Because they may apprehend the loss of reputation or support;
3. Because they may not love the truth them selves, and choose to conceal its prominent and offensive points;
4. Because they may be afraid of the rich, the great, and the frivolous, and apprehend that they shall excite their indignation; and,
5. By a love of metaphysical philosophy, and a constant effort to bring everything to the test of their own reason. People often preach a philosophical explanation of a doctrine instead of the doctrine itself They deserve the credit of ingenuity, but not that of being open and bold proclaimers of the truth of God.

All the counsel - πᾶσαν τὴν βουλὴν pasan tēn boulēn. The word “counsel” (βουλὴ boulē) denotes properly “consolation, deliberation,” and then “will or purpose,” Luke 23:51; Acts 2:23. It means here the will or purpose of God, as revealed in regard to the salvation of people. Paul had made a full statement of that plan of the guilt of people, of the claims of the Law, of the need of a Saviour, of the provisions of mercy, and of the state of future rewards and punishments. Ministers ought to declare all that counsel, because God commands it; because it is needful for the salvation of people; and because the message is not theirs, but God’s, and they have no right to change, to disguise, or to withhold it. And if it is the duty of ministers to declare that counsel, it is the duty of a people to listen to it with respect and candor, and with a desire to know the truth, and to be saved by it. Declaring the counsel of God will do no good unless it is received into honest and humble hearts, and with a disposition to know what God has revealed for salvation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 20:27. I have not shunned to declare — ου υπεστιλαμην, I have not suppressed or concealed any thing, through fear or favour, that might be beneficial to your souls. This is properly the meaning of the original word. Acts 20:20.

All the counsel of God. — All that God has determined and revealed concerning the salvation of man-the whole doctrine of Christ crucified, with repentance towards God, and faith in Jesus as the Messiah and great atoning Priest. In Isaiah 9:6, Jesus Christ is called the wonderful counsellor, פלא יועץ Pele Poets, which the Septuagint translate μεγαλης βουλης αγγελος The messenger of the great counsel. To this the apostle may have referred, as we well know that this version was constantly under his eye. Declaring therefore to them the whole counsel of God, πασηντην βουληντουθεου, the whole of that counsel or design of God, was, in effect, declaring the whole that concerned the Lord Jesus, who was the messenger of this counsel.