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We must be diligent in the use of all the means which lead to our salvation, persevering therein to the end. With great care, lest, with all our advantages, we should come short. Work out your...
For--encouragement to work: "For it is God who worketh in you," always present with you, though I be absent. It is not said, "Work out your own salvation, though it is God," &c., but, "because it...
this place--this city and land (Jer 7:7). to your hurt--so Jer 7:19; "to the confusion or their own faces" (Jer13:10; Pr 8:36).
The inferential admonition is followed (Pr 7:26, 27), by a more general allegation of the evils of this vice.
(See on Mt 7:3-5, Mt 7:16-27.)
if her husband be dead--"die." So Ro 7:3.
immediately the brethren--the converts gathered at Berea. sent away Paul--as before from Jerusalem (Ac 9:30), and from Thessalonica (Ac 17:10). How long he stayed at Berea we know not; but as we...
That I may know him--experimentally. The aim of the "righteousness" just mentioned. This verse resumes, and more fully explains, "the excellency of the knowledge of Christ" (Php 3:8). To know HIM...
eat any man's bread--Greek, "eat bread from any man," that is, live at anyone's expense. Contrast 2Th 3:12, "eat THEIR OWN bread." wrought--(Ac 20:34). In both Epistles they state they maintained...
It is a good work to succour and help a good minister in trouble. The nature of true Christian sympathy, is not only to feel concern for our friends in their troubles, but to do what we can to...
be found in him--"be found" at His coming again, living spiritually "in Him" as the element of my life. Once lost, I have been "found," and I hope to be perfectly "found" by Him (Lu 15:8). own...
confident--This confidence nerves prayers and thanksgivings (Php1:3, 4). this very thing--the very thing which he prays for (Php 1:4) is the matter of his believing confidence (Mr 11:24; 1Jo 5:14,...
moderation--from a Greek root, "to yield," whence yieldingness [Trench]; or from a root, "it is fitting," whence "reasonableness of dealing" [Alford], that considerateness for others, not urging...
that cannot profit--Maurer translates, "so that you profit nothing" (see Jer 7:4; Jer 5:31).
rising...early--implying unwearied earnestness in soliciting them (Jer 7:25; Jer 11:17; 2Ch 36:15).
uppermost seats--(See on Lu 14:7-11). greetings--(See on Mt 23:7-10).
an angel of the Lord--rather, "the Angel of the Covenant," who immediately calls Himself Jehovah (Compare Ac 7:38).
cast--namely, thunderbolts (Job 6:4; 7:20; 16:13; Ps 7:12, 13).
judgeth--as in Ps 7:8. the wicked--Though not expressed, they are implied, for they alone are left as objects of anger.
by permission...not of commandment--not by God's permission to me to say it: but, "by way of permission to you, not as a commandment." "This" refers to the directions, 1Co 7:2-5.
the hearts and reins--the affections and motives of men, or the seat of them (compare Ps 16:7; 26:2); as we use heart and bosom or breast.
look to his Maker--instead of trusting in their fortresses--(Isa17:3; Mic 7:7).
Illustrating the meaning of "so to be," 1Co 7:26. Neither the married (those "bound to a wife") nor the unmarried (those "loosed from a wife") are to "seek" a change of state (compare 1Co 7:20,...
defence--literally, "shield" (Ps 5:12).
(Compare Ps 7:15; 9:15, 16).
On the terms (Ps 27:9; 74:1; 77:7).
To the obligations of a creature and subject is added that of a beneficiary (Ps 95:7).