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Ask a Questionis unto me--is become unto Me: behaves towards Me as a lion which roars against a man, so that he withdraws from the place where he hears it: so I withdrew from My people, once beloved, but now an...
And lead us not into temptation--He who honestly seeks and has the assurance of, forgiveness for past sin, will strive to avoid committing it for the future. But conscious that "when we would do...
Those who have power to call others to account, are themselves accountable to the Ruler of rulers. The sin of the ruler, committed through ignorance, must come to his knowledge, either by the...
found me purified in the temple--not polluting it, therefore, by my own presence, and neither gathering a crowd nor raising a stir: If then these Asiatic Jews have any charge to bring against me in...
For the mouth...opened--or, "They have opened a wicked mouth" against me--literally, "with me," that is, Their intercourse is lying, or, they slander me to my face (Mt 26:59).
arms--namely, of the human body; not weapons; human forces. they--Antiochus' hosts confederate with the apostate Israelites; these latter attain the climax of guilt, when they not only, as before,...
Instead of the joyousness of thy prosperity, a death-like silence shall reign (Isa 24:8; Jer 7:34).
According to my earnest expectation--The Greek expresses, "expectation with uplifted head (Lu 21:28) and outstretched neck." Ro8:19 is the only other place in the New Testament that the word...
Even the members of the body needed to hold weapons are destroyed.
his mighty men--the Medo-Babylonian general's mighty men attacking Nineveh. made red--The ancients dyed their bull's-hide shields red, partly to strike terror into the enemy, chiefly lest the blood...
The contrast is heightened by representing God as using weapons like theirs.
Whosoever shall receive one of such children--so manifesting the spirit unconsciously displayed by this child. in my name--from love to Me. receiveth me; and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth...
not cried unto me--but unto other gods [Maurer], (Job 35:9, 10). Or, they did indeed cry unto Me, but not "with their heart": answering to "lies," Ho 7:13 (see on Ho 7:13). when they howled upon...
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, &c.--Astonishing dialogue this between the King, from the Throne of His glory, and His wondering people! "I was an hungered, and...
magnify, &c.--Speak proudly (Ob 12; Eze 35:13). against me--emphatically repeated (Ps 38:16). plead...reproach--English Version makes this part of the protasis, "if" being understood, and the...
Greek, "There is (the) truth of Christ in me that," &c. (Ro 9:1). no man shall stop me of--The oldest manuscripts read, "This boasting shall not be shut (that is, stopped) as regards me." "Boasting...
every one that findeth me shall slay me--This shows that the population of the world was now considerably increased.
The well-nourished body of the rebel is the sign of his prosperity. collops--masses of fat. He pampers and fattens himself with sensual indulgences; hence his rebellion against God (De 32:15; 1Sa...
tender plant--Messiah grew silently and insensibly, as a sucker from an ancient stock, seemingly dead (namely, the house of David, then in a decayed state) (see on Isa 11:1). shall grow...hath...
I--Messiah. no man--willing to believe in and obey Me (Isa 52:1, 3). The same Divine Person had "come" by His prophets in the Old Testament (appealing to them, but in vain, Jer 7:25, 26), who was...
stand upon...watch--that is, watch-post. The prophets often compare themselves, awaiting the revelations of Jehovah with earnest patience, to watchmen on an eminence watching with intent eye all...
God awakens Joshua to inquiry, by telling him that when this accursed thing was put away, all would be well. Times of danger and trouble should be times of reformation. We should look at home,...
be full...deny--that is, puffed up by the pride of prosperity. take the name...vain--This is not (Hebrew) the form (compare Ex 20:7), but "take" rather denotes laying violent hold on any thing;...
what the Lord saith unto me, that will I speak--On the way the messenger who conducted [Micaiah] to the royal presence informed him of the tenor of the prophecies already given and recommended him...
blasphemies...against...Israel...against me--God regards what is done against His people as done against Himself (Mt 25:45; Ac9:2, 4, 5). Edom implied, if he did not express it, in his taunts...
peaceably--literally, "unexpectedly"; under the guise of friendship he seized Ptolemy Philometer. he shall do that which his fathers have not done--His predecessors, kings of Syria, had always...
that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they may be one in us--The indwelling Spirit of the Father and the Son is the one perfect bond of union, knitting up into a...
that rose up against me--literally, "insurgents" (Ps 3:1; 44:5).
I have loved you--above other men; nay, even above the other descendants of Abraham and Isaac. Such gratuitous love on My part called for love on yours. But the return ye make is sin and dishonor...
Jewish ambassadors were now on their way to Egypt to seek aid against Assyria (Isa 30:2-6, 15; 31:1). Isaiah denounces this reliance on Egypt rather than on Jehovah. God had prohibited such...