C.E.B. Cranfield, Luc-Actes, SJT, 1963, p. 300.
Since the decisive event of history has already taken place in the ministry, death, resurrection and ascension of Christ, all subsequent history is a kind of epilogue, an interval inserted by God’s mercy in order to allow men time for repentance, and, as such an epilogue, necessarily in a real sense short, even though it may take a very long time.
C.E.B. Cranfield, Luke-Acts, SJT, 1963, p. 300.