Did the salvation of the eunuch depend merely on his [1]
believing that Jesus Christ was the Son of God?
It did; but this believing was more than faith in the
fact that Jesus was the Messiah. Here the verb believe
took its original meaning, namely, to be firm,—yea, to [5]
understand those great truths asserted of the Messiah:
it meant to discern and consent to that infinite demand
made upon the eunuch in those few words of the apostle.
Philip's requirement was, that he should not only ac-
knowledge the incarnation,—God made manifest through [10]