<p>4:12- see on Acts 2:36.<br /><i>And in no other is there salvation; for</i>- Gk. <em>the</em> salvation, the Messianic salvation and Kingdom of the Old Testament. This is another form of the word translated &quot;made whole&quot; in :9. His 'salvation' was representative of the salvation of all men.</p><p><em>Neither is there any other name- </em>According to Acts 4:12, there is no salvation &quot;in any other name&quot;; this is the name &quot;wherein we must be saved&quot; (RV). And the early chapters of Acts stress this theme of being &quot;<em>in</em> Christ&quot; (Acts 4:2,7,9,10,12 RV); yet all these things that are possible for those &quot;in Him&quot; require us to be baptized <em>into Him</em>. See on 2 Cor. 5:20. <br />The message they preached had an exclusive nature to it- it was radical preaching: &lsquo;this is the truth, and nothing, nothing else on this earth&rsquo;. Throughout the Roman empire, there was the concept of <em>religio</em>- the gods were thought to bless the empire if the empire worshipped them, and therefore everyone was expected to participate in the state religion. However, in addition, they were quite free to practice their own religions <em>as well</em>. But here, Christianity was intolerant. They preached that there was <em>no other name</em> apart from Jesus through which we might be saved- a direct and conscious attack upon the &lsquo;religio&rsquo; concept. Christ had to be accepted as Lord in baptism, in contradistinction to &lsquo;Caesar is Lord&rsquo;. A Christian could only serve one of two possible masters. He had to love one and hate the other. The whole idea of &ldquo;the Kingdom of God&rdquo; was revolutionary- there was to be no other Kingdom spoken of apart from Caesar&rsquo;s. But our brethren preached the Gospel of the Kingdom <em>of God</em>. And those who openly accepted these principles were inevitably persecuted- expelled from the trade guilds, not worked with, socially shunned, their children discriminated against.</p><p><em>That is given among men under heaven</em>- This is a persistent but unfortunate translation across many English versions. <em>En anthropos</em> is the same phrase in Lk. 12:8: &quot;Everyone who shall confess me <em>before men</em>&quot;. The giving of the Name among or before men was in the form of the confession or witness made by the preachers who preached in His Name. Luke has earlier used the term about how the Gospel speaks of God's good will &quot;before men&quot; (Lk. 2:14); but that good news must be placed &quot;before men&quot; by the preachers in order for it to be realized in practice.</p><p><em>Wherein we must be saved</em>- An appeal for baptism &quot;into&quot; Christ for salvation. 'Our' salvation was therefore prefigured in the making whole or saving s.w. of the crippled man (:9 s.w.).</p>