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Ask a QuestionThen Paul called one of the centurions--Though divinely assured of safety, he never allows this to interfere with the duty he owed to his own life and the work he had yet to do. (See on Ac...
(Job 8:14; 4:19). The transition is natural from "raiment" (Job 27:16) to the "house" of the "moth" in it, and of it, when in its larva state. The moth worm's house is broken whenever the "raiment"...
Phenice--"Phenix," now called Lutro. which lieth toward the southwest and northwest--If this means that it was open to the west, it would certainly not be good anchorage! It is thought therefore to...
knew the island was called Melita--(See on Ac 27:39). The opinion that this island was not Malta to the south of Sicily, but Meleda in the Gulf of Venice--which till lately had respectable support...
Jacob said, Esau my brother is a hairy man--It is remarkable that his scruples were founded, not on the evil of the act, but on the risk and consequences of deception.
pins--were designed to hold down the curtains at the bottom, lest the wind should waft them aside.
olive trees and the sycamore trees...in the low plains--that is, the Shephela, the rich, low-lying ground between the Mediterranean and the mountains of Judah.
(Job 6:28, 30). The "deceit" would be if he were to admit guilt against the witness of his conscience.
Rather, my "heart" (conscience) reproaches "not one of my days," that is, I do not repent of any of my days since I came into existence [Maurer].
These earnest terms are often used, and the address to God, as indifferent or averse, is found in Ps 3:7; 22:24; 27:9, &c.
dwelling-place--home (compare Eze 11:16), as a refuge (De 33:27).
rejoice the heart--the organ of perceiving what pleases the senses. sweetness...counsel--or, "wise counsel is also pleasing."
flocks--constituted the staple of wealth. It is only by care and diligence that the most solid possessions can be perpetuated (Pr23:5).
most proud--literally, "pride"; that is, man of pride; the king of Babylon. visit--punish (Jer 50:27).
The detailed enumeration implies the utter completeness of the ruin. and in all thy company--"even with all thy collected multitude" [Henderson].
lamentation--an elegy for the destruction coming on you. Compare Eze32:2, "take up," namely, as a mournful burden (Eze 19:1; 27:2).
many other things, &c.--such as we read in Joh 1:29, 33, 34;3:27-36. (Also see on Mt 3:12.)
Assurance that He is going from her in love, not in displeasure (Joh16:6, 7). all fair--still stronger than So 1:15; So 4:1. no spot--our privilege (Eph 5:27; Col 2:10); our duty (2Co 6:17; Jude23;...
He--Jehovah. Here the song of the Lord as to His vineyard (Isa 27:2-5) ends; and the prophet confirms the sentiment in the song, under the same image of a vine (compare Ps 92:13-15; Ho 14:5, 6). ...
mockers--a sin which they had committed (Isa 28:9, 10). bands--their Assyrian bondage (Isa 10:27); Judah was then tributary to Assyria; or, "lest your punishment be made still more severe"...
intend to bring this man's blood upon us--They avoid naming Him whom Peter gloried in holding up [Bengel]. In speaking thus, they seem to betray a disagreeable recollection of their own recent...
But after long abstinence--(See on Ac 27:33). "The hardships which the crew endured during a gale of such continuance, and their exhaustion from laboring at the pumps and hunger, may be imagined,...
brake--that they might be more portable. Fulfilling the prophecy (Jer 27:19). See 1Ki 7:15, 23, 27, 50. Nothing is so particularly related here as the carrying away of the articles in the temple....
Be not--or, "You shall not be." sudden fear--what causes it (Pr 1:27), any unlooked-for evil (Ps 46:3;91:12; 1Pe 3:14). desolation--(Pr 1:27).
For verily I say unto you--Here, for the first time, does that august expression occur in our Lord's recorded teaching, with which we have grown so familiar as hardly to reflect on its full import....
This and the following parable are in Matthew alone.
Esau hated Jacob--It is scarcely to be wondered at that Esau resented the conduct of Jacob and vowed revenge. The days of mourning for my father are at hand--a common Oriental phrase for the death...
Ziklag--Though originally assigned to Judah (Jos 15:31), and subsequently to Simeon (Jos 19:5), this town had never been possessed by the Israelites. It belonged to the Philistines, who gave it to...
the vineyards--These seem to have been in the vine growing districts of Judah, and were committed to two men of that quarter. wine-cellars--The wine is deposited in jars sunk in the court of the...
The Hebrew is brief and bold, "his strength is hungry." destruction--that is, a great calamity (Pr 1:27). ready at his side--close at hand to destroy him (Pr 19:29).