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In this providential government, good men will rejoice, and the cavils of the wicked will be stopped (Job 5:16; Isa 52:15), and all who take right views will appreciate God's unfailing mercy and...
The way to preserve peace is to make the best of every thing; not to notice what has been said or done against ourselves.
seeketh love--(Compare Margin). The contrast is between the peace-maker...
Man's neglect of God's favour and his own interest is very absurd.
Though wealth cannot buy wisdom for those who do not love it, yet wisdom procures wealth (Pr 3:16; 14:24).
See the various deceits men use, of which the love of money is the root. The Lord will not bless what is thus gotten.
Various measures, implying that some are wrong (compare Pr 11:1;16:11).speaketh--implying that these precepts addressed to their ancestors were the requirements of Jehovah not merely then, but now. We must not only not hurt, but we must help our fellow men. God is...
The Father loveth, &c.--See on Mt 11:27, where we have the "delivering over of all things into the hands of the Son," while here we have the deep spring of that august act in the Father's ineffable...
holy kiss--the token of the mutual love of Christians, especially at the Lord's Supper (compare Ro 16:16; 1Th 5:26), "in which all the dissensions of the Corinthians would be swallowed up"...
Heretofore his functions had been chiefly threatening; from this point, after the evil had got to its worst in the overthrow of Jerusalem, the consolatory element preponderates. very lovely song...
These are hard lessons to flesh and blood. But if we are thoroughly grounded in the faith of Christ's love, this will make his commands easy to us. Every one that comes to him for washing in his...
Peter, turning about--showing that he followed immediately as directed. seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on Jesus' breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that...
And--omitted in the oldest manuscripts The absence of the connecting particle gives an emphatical sententiousness to the style, suitable to the subject. The first step to knowledge is to know our...
he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek--The location of this place is not known, nor can the character of Delilah be clearly ascertained. Her abode, her mercenary character, and her heartless...
Over this terrible raging of the elements God is enthroned, directing and restraining by sovereign power; and hence the comfort of His people. "This awful God is ours, our Father and our Love."
This results from His abiding love (De 32:15), which is further evinced by His restoring order in His government, whose right administration will be approved by the good.
sinneth...me--or better, "missing me," as opposed to "finding" [Pr 8:35]. love death--act as if they did (compare Pr 17:9).
kiss his lips--love and obey, do homage (Ps 2:12; So 8:1). right answer--literally, "plain words" (compare Pr 8:9), opposed to deceptive, or obscure.
Upon reflection, most will have a better opinion of a faithful reprover than of a soothing flatterer.
(Compare Pr 9:8, 9; 27:5). Those benefited by reproof will love their monitors.Not vain repetition of So 4:1, 2. The use of the same words shows His love unchanged after her temporary unfaithfulness (Mal 3:6).
answered--responded to God's goodness by praises. name of God--God in His revelation of Himself by acts of love, "wisdom, and might" (Jer 32:19).
can serve--be entirely at the command of; and this is true even where the services are not opposed. hate...love--showing that the two here intended are in uncompromising hostility to each other: an...
The subject here, and on to Ro 15:13, is the consideration due from stronger Christians to their weaker brethren; which is but the great law of love (treated of in the thirteenth chapter) in one...
A solemn closing warning added in his own hand as in Eph 6:24; Col4:18. the Lord--who ought to be "loved" above Paul, Apollos, and all other teachers. Love to one another is to be in connection...
The "ye" is emphatical, from its position in the Greek, "Ye brethren"; as opposed to those legalists "who trouble you." unto liberty--The Greek expresses, "on a footing of liberty." The state or...
Faith, hope, and love, are the three pre-eminent graces (1Th 1:3;1Co 13:13). We must not only be awake and sober, but also armed; not only watchful, but also guarded. The armor here is only...
a partner--in the Christian fellowship of faith, hope, and love. receive him as myself--resuming "receive him that is mine own bowels."
"And in your godliness brotherly kindness"; not suffering your godliness to be moroseness, nor a sullen solitary habit of life, but kind, generous, and courteous [Alford]. Your natural affection...
beguiled--cajoled by flattering lies. This sin of the first pair was heinous and aggravated--it was not simply eating an apple, but a love of self, dishonor to God, ingratitude to a benefactor,...
God's perfections of love, mercy, goodness, and truth are manifested (his name, compare Ps 9:10) in pardoning sin, and the greatness of sin renders pardon more needed.
in the morning,...every night--diligently and constantly (Ps42:8). loving kindness--literally, "mercy." faithfulness--in fulfilling promises (Ps 89:14).