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Ask a QuestionWhereunto--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...
According as the testimony of (of, and concerning) Christ (who is both the object and author of this testimony [Bengel]; 1Co 2:1; 1Ti 2:6; 2Ti 1:8) was confirmed among [Alford] you; that is, by...
refuse--reject, avoid, have nothing to do with (2Ti 2:23; Tit 3:10). old wives' fables--anile myths (1Ti 1:4, 9; Tit 1:14). They are "profane," because leading away from "godliness" or "piety" (1Ti...
am--Greek, "I was made a minister": resuming Col 1:23, "whereof I Paul was made a minister." dispensation--the stewardship committed to me to dispense in the house of God, the Church, to the whole...
Shushan--Susa. Though then comparatively insignificant, it was destined to be the capital of Persia after Cyrus' time. Therefore Daniel is transported into it, as being the capital of the kingdom...
David lamented with this lamentation--It has always been customary for Eastern people, on the death of great kings and warriors, to celebrate their qualities and deeds in funeral songs. This...
a Shunammite--Shunem, in the tribe of Issachar (Jos 19:18), lay on an eminence in the plain of Esdraelon, five miles south of Tabor. It is now called Sulam.
king of Moab rebelled--This is a repetition of 2Ki 1:1, in order to introduce an account of the confederate expedition for crushing this revolt, which had been allowed to continue unchecked during...
Hearken--that is, obey (Pr 1:8; Eph 6:1). despise...old--Adults revere the parents whom, as children, they once obeyed.
(Isa 1:2). fruit of...thoughts--(Pr 1:31). nor to my law, but rejected it--literally, "and (as to) My law they have rejected it." The same construction occurs in Ge 22:24.
(Jer 9:1; La 1:16). Jeremiah is desired to weep ceaselessly for the calamities coming on his nation (called a "virgin," as being heretofore never under foreign yoke), (Isa 23:4).
colour of amber--"the glitter of chasmal" [Fairbairn]. See on Eze1:4; rather, "polished brass" [Henderson]. Messiah is described here as in Da 10:5, 6; Re 1:14, 15.
(See on Mr 16:1-8; and Mt 28:1-5). eat before them--that is, let them see Him doing it: not for His own necessity, but their conviction.
The Evangelist here approaches his grand thesis, so paving his way for the full statement of it in Joh 1:14, that we may be able to bear the bright light of it, and take in its length and breadth...
And ye--answering to "For our Gospel," 1Th 1:5. followers--Greek, "imitators." The Thessalonians in their turn became "ensamples" (1Th 1:7) for others to imitate. of the Lord--who was the apostle...
Titus, mine own son--Greek, "my genuine child" (1Ti 1:2), that is, converted by my instrumentality (1Co 4:17; Phm 10). after the common faith--a genuine son in respect to (in virtue of) the faith...
Obed-edom with their brethren--Hosah, mentioned at the close of the verse, and a great number besides (see on 1Ch 26:1). to be porters--doorkeepers.
strength--(Ps 27:1; 28:8). trouble--straits (Ps 9:9; 10:1). In trust and quietness is the salvation of the pious from all foes and all their devices.
watchmen--prophets, whose duty it was to announce impending calamities, so as to lead the people to repentance (Isa 21:11; 58:1; Eze 3:17; Hab 2:1).
cry unto me--contrasted with "cry unto the gods," (Jer 11:12). not hearken--(Ps 18:41; Pr 1:28; Isa 1:15; Mic 3:4).
Blow...trumpet--to sound an alarm of coming war (Nu 10:1-10; Ho5:8; Am 3:6); the office of the priests. Joe 1:15 is an anticipation of the fuller prophecy in this chapter.
seventh month--of the Hebrew year; in the second year of Darius' reign (Hag 1:1); not quite a month after they had begun the work (Hag1:15). This prophecy was very shortly before that of Zechariah....
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet--(Isa 9:1, 2 or, as in Hebrew, Isaiah 8:23, and 9:1). saying--as follows:
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift--not any supernatural gift, as the next clause shows, and compare 1Co 1:7. to the end that ye may be established.
The minister is spiritually a soldier (2Ti 2:3), a vine-dresser (1Co3:6-8; So 1:6), and a shepherd (1Pe 5:2, 4). of the fruit--The oldest manuscripts omit "of."
the days were not expired--The period within which this exploit was to be achieved was not exhausted.
every one that was in distress--(See on Jud 11:3).
These were the chief of the officers--(See on 2Ch 8:10).
Abel-meholah--that is, "the meadow of dancing," in the valley of the Jordan.