<p>1:2 <i>U</i><i>ntil the day in which he was received up, after that he had given commandments through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen</i>- &nbsp;The day the Lord was taken up, He gave one commandment to the apostles, related to their possession of the Holy Spirit: to go into all the world with the Gospel. But why does Luke speak in the plural, &ldquo;commandments&rdquo;? It could be that here we have one of many examples of Hebrew idiom being used by the Jewish writers of the New Testament, even though they wrote in Greek. There is in Hebrew an &lsquo;intensive plural&rsquo;, whereby something is put in the plural (e.g. &ldquo;deaths&rdquo; in Is. 53:9) to emphasize the greatness of the one thing (e.g., <em>the</em> death, of Messiah). Could it not be that here we have something similar? The one great commandment is to go into all the world with the Gospel. We are the light of this world. We, the candles, were lit so that we might give light to others. Our duty is not merely to inform others of our doctrinal position, but to gain, win or catch as fishermen our fellow men for Christ.</p>