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Ask a QuestionAs the living Father hath sent me--to communicate His own life. and I live by the Father--literally, "because of the Father"; My life and His being one, but Mine that of a Son, whose it is to be...
What man--literally, "strong man--shall live?" and, indeed, have not all men been made in vain, as to glorifying God?
Then--that is, the time of our danger. quick--literally, "living" (Nu 16:32, 33), description of ferocity.
sea--that is, a lake, or pool formed from the outspreading of a river. Job lived near the Euphrates: and "sea" is applied to it (Jer51:36; Isa 27:1). So of the Nile (Isa 19:5). fail--utterly...
he shall take them away as with a whirlwind--literally, "blow him (them) away." both living...wrath--literally, "as the living" or fresh as the heated or burning--that is, thorns--all easily blown...
every man's word...his burden--As they mockingly call all prophecies burdens, as if calamities were the sole subject of prophecy, so it shall prove to them. God will take them at their own word. ...
Rather as Greek, "But if to live in the flesh (if), this (I say, the continuance in life which I am undervaluing) be the fruit of my labor (that is, be the condition in which the fruit of my...
The flesh and blood of the Son of man, denote the Redeemer in the nature of man; Christ and him crucified, and the redemption wrought out by him, with all the precious benefits of redemption;...
This refers to the common mistakes both of rich and poor, as to their outward condition. Rich people's wealth exposes them to many dangers; while a poor man may live comfortably, if he is...
in the midst of the throne--that is, in the middle point in front of the throne (Re 5:6). feed--Greek, "tend as a shepherd." living fountains of water--A, B, Vulgate, and Cyprian read, (eternal)...
For--giving the reason for 1Pe 4:5, "judge the dead." gospel preached also to...dead--as well as to them now living, and to them that shall be found alive at the coming of the Judge. "Dead" must be...
Flatterers, especially false teachers, are welcome to those that live in sin.
Wicked doers and speakers alike delight in calumny.the finger of God--"the Spirit of God" (Mt 12:28); the former figuratively denoting the power of God, the latter the living Personal Agent in every exercise of it.
I am crucified--literally, "I have been crucified with Christ." This more particularizes the foregoing. "I am dead" (Ga 2:19; Php3:10). nevertheless I live; yet not I--Greek, "nevertheless I live,...
The Levites waited till the other tribes were provided for, before they preferred their claim to Joshua. They build their claim upon a very good foundation; not their own merits or services, but...
Literally, "instead of your saying," &c. This refers to "ye that say" (Jas 4:13). we shall live--The best manuscripts read, "We shall both live and do," &c. The boasters spoke as if life, action,...
Here is a genealogy, or list of names, ending in Abram, the friend of God, and thus leading towards Christ, the promised Seed, who was the son of Abram. Nothing is left upon record but their...
O that Ishmael might live before thee--natural solicitude of a parent. But God's thoughts are not as man's thoughts [Isa 55:8].
he stood between the living and the dead--The plague seems to have begun in the extremities of the camp. Aaron, in this remarkable act, was a type of Christ.
who shall live when God doeth this!--Few shall escape the desolation that shall send a Nebuchadnezzar to scourge all those regions.
The children of Solomon's servants--either the strangers that monarch enlisted in the building of the temple, or those who lived in his palace, which was deemed a high honor.
They were not only God's peculiar people, but as living inhabitants of earth, assigned the work of His praise as monuments of divine power, wisdom, and goodness.
God's justice and faithfulness in His government aggravate the neglect of the wicked, and more excite the lively zeal of His people.
the city of Andrew and Peter--of their birth probably, for they seem to have lived at Capernaum (Mr 1:29).
in his righteousness...he shah live--in it, not for it, as if that atoned for his former sins; but "in his righteousness" he shall live, as the evidence of his being already in favor with God...
swear by the sin of Samaria--namely, the calves (De 9:21; Ho 4:15). "Swear by" means to worship (Ps 63:11). The manner--that is, as "the way" is used (Ps 139:24; Ac 9:2), the mode of worship. Thy...
Those make themselves always easy, that live in continual dependence upon God and his grace, and live by faith.
of a proud heart--literally, "puffed up of soul"--that is, self-confident, and...Seek ye me, and ye shall live--literally, "Seek...Me, and live." The second imperative expresses the certainty of "life" (escape from judgment) resulting from obedience to the precept in the first...
justified and, not by faith only--that is, by "faith without (separated from: severed from) works," its proper fruits (see on Jas2:20). Faith to justify must, from the first, include obedience in...
But flesh...the blood...shall ye not eat--The sole intention of this prohibition was to prevent these excesses of cannibal ferocity in eating flesh of living animals, to which men in the earlier...