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(Compare Ps 17:1).
(See on Ec 1:13).
went by them--went beside them.
This is but an echo of the sublime prediction in Isa 9:6, 7.
Marvellous faith in such circumstances!
since the world began--or, "from the earliest period."
(See on Mt 24:1-3.)
He shows that they ought to make their hopes of salvation to depend not on Apollos or any other teacher; that it rests with themselves. "Watch ye": for ye are slumbering. "Stand": for ye are like...
Translate, "In all my remembrance of you."
by their polls--individually, one by one.
a talent of silver--L342.
the host of God--that is, a great and powerful army.
(Compare Ps 96:1).
(See on Isa 48:1; Isa 48:3).
burden--the prophetic sentence.
through him--John.
John stood--"was standing," at his accustomed place.
that prophet--(See on Joh 1:21).
And indeed--Greek, "For even."
Yea--Greek, "But"; though "you know" the truth (2Pe 1:12). this tabernacle--soon to be taken down (2Co 5:1): I therefore need to make the most of my short time for the good of Christ's Church. The...
by the will of God--Greek, "through," &c. (compare Note, see on 1Co1:1). Timothy--(Compare Notes, see on 2Co 1:1 and Php 1:1). He was with Paul at the time of writing in Rome. He had been companion...
Here Nahum enters on his special subject, for which the previous verses have prepared the way, namely, to assure his people of safety in Jehovah under the impending attack of Sennacherib (Na 1:7),...
violence...Why dost thou show me iniquity?--Similar language is used of the Chaldeans (Hab 1:9, 13), as here is used of the Jews: implying, that as the Jews sinned by violence and injustice, so...
"Some indeed are preaching Christ even for envy, that is, to carry out the envy which they felt towards Paul, on account of the success of the Gospel in the capital of the world, owing to his...
Zedekiah--called the son of Josiah (compare Jer 1:3; 37:1), but in 2Ch 36:19 he is described as the brother of Jehoiachin, who was the son of Jehoiakim, and consequently the grandson of Josiah....
Paul--(See on Ac 13:9). a servant of Jesus Christ--The word here rendered "servant" means "bond-servant," or one subject to the will and wholly at the disposal of another. In this sense it is...
This is the title of this chapter (see Introduction). the prophecy--literally, "the burden" (compare Isa 13:1; Zec 9:1), used for any divine instruction; not necessarily a prediction, which was...
Whereunto--For the giving of which testimony. I am ordained--literally, "I was set": the same Greek, as "putting me," &c. (1Ti 1:12). preacher--literally, "herald" (1Co 1:21; 9:27; 15:11; 2Ti 1:11;...
servant of God--not found elsewhere in the same connection. In Ro 1:1 it is "servant of Jesus Christ" (Ga 1:10; Php 1:1; compare Ac16:17; Re 1:1; 15:3). In Ro 1:1, there follows, "called to be an...