Healed (feet). (Acts 3:7, et. al.). The context is conversion by prophetic knowledge of the Messiah as an effect of its evangelism: “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.” The “name of Jesus Christ” is the name of God, which is the name that promises and fulfills. This is identical to our use of one being “a man of his word.” The symbol of spiritual salvation by this Word is miraculous healing of the body, which is a figure for the healing of the spiritual body through faith. The leaping and joy of this healing in the Temple and praising God is by the word that Peter then proclaims in Acts 3:18: “But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.”
The physically healed need not have known this Word for this to be a symbol of faith in that Word. It is meant to represent the prophetic gospel, and in man’s spirit its hearing, its righteous and honest judgment, its acceptance, and its trust as True.
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