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Ask a Question(Ro 1:9; 2Ti 1:3.) The structure of the sentences in this and the following verses, each successive sentence repeating with greater fulness the preceding, characteristically marks Paul's abounding...
the woman had a fat calf...and she hasted, and killed it, &c.--(See on Ge 18:1-8).
Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech--or, "Mash"; these were the children of Aram, and grandsons of Shem (Ge 10:23).
ended--literally, "finished," or completed; the word never denotes fulfilment, except in a very late usage, as in Ezr 1:1; Da 12:7.
hid five months--till the event was put beyond doubt and became apparent. (See on Mt 1:18-21).
there standeth--This must have been spoken after the baptism of Christ, and possibly just after His temptation (see on Joh 1:29).
the city of Andrew and Peter--of their birth probably, for they seem to have lived at Capernaum (Mr 1:29).
These truths, to the exclusion of those useless and even injurious teachings (1Ti 4:1-8), while weighing well thyself, charge also upon others.
Quotation from Ps 110:1. The image is taken from the custom of conquerors putting the feet on the necks of the conquered (Jos 10:24,25).
all the people came up after him--that is, from the valley to the citadel of Zion.
(Compare Ps 7:6; 26:1; 2Th 1:6). God's righteous government is the hope of the pious and terror of the wicked.
tenth year--The siege of Jerusalem had already begun, in the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah (Jer 39:1; 2Ki 25:1).
13:1-37; Lu 21:5-36). For the exposition, see on Mr 13:1-37.
three bullocks--The Septuagint renders it "a bullock of three years old"; which is probably the true rendering.
his brethren had not many children--(see Nu 1:22; 26:14).
law--all of God's word then written, especially the books of Moses (compare Ps 119:1, 55, 97, &c.).
(Eze 2:6; 3:9). I am with thee--(Ex 3:12; Jos 1:5).
children of Judah--the most noble tribe, being that to which the "king's seed" belonged (compare Da 1:3).
This incident, as remarked on Mt 9:1, appears to follow next in order of time after the cure of the leper (Mr 1:40-45).
in due times--Greek, "in its own seasons," the seasons appropriate to it, and fixed by God for it (Ac 1:7). manifested--implying that the "promise," Tit 1:2, had lain hidden in His eternal purpose...
Shaaraim--(See Jos 15:36).
fir trees--rather, the cypress.
Jehoadah--or, Jara (1Ch 9:42).
Poetically represents the facts of Ge 1:9.
On the terms (Ps 27:9; 74:1; 77:7).
ALEPH. (Ps 119:1-8).
(Compare Ps 5:1-12; 16:2).
In their extreme distress He will not only refuse help, but aggravate it by derision.
See on Isa 34:1, introduction there.
know righteousness--(See on Isa 51:1).