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(Compare Pr 4:10, 13; Pr 3:8, &c.).
Similar calls (Pr 3:1-3; 4:10, &c.).
Right speech is the fruit of a good heart, but the wicked show theirs to be useless.
Referring to Ec 10:18. Instead of repairing the breaches in the commonwealth (equivalent to "building"), the princes "make a feast for laughter (Ec 10:16), and wine maketh their life glad (Ps...
pastors--the rulers, civil and religious. This verse gives the cause of the impending calamity.
The "wings" denote alacrity, the "hands" efficacy and aptness, in executing the functions assigned to them.
(Eze 23:10, 47). Compare as to the destruction under Titus, Lu19:43, 44.
two coats--directed against the reigning avarice. (Also see on Mt3:10.)
Peter, &c.--(See on Joh 20:1-10).
send to Joppa...for one Simon, &c.--(See on Ac 9:11).
Nimrod--mentioned as eclipsing all his family in renown. He early distinguished himself by his daring and successful prowess in hunting wild beasts. By those useful services he earned a title to...
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"...
made us to err--that is, "suffer" us to err and to be hardened in our heart. They do not mean to deny their own blameworthiness, but confess that through their own fault God gave them over to a...
I say this lest I should seem to be terrifying you, as children, with empty threats [Bengel]. Estius explains, "I might boast more of my authority, but I forbear to do so, that I may not seem as...
The writer intimates his confidence by depicting God's actions (compare Ps 9:19; 10:12) as coming to save the poor at whom the wicked sneer (Ps 10:5).
As an episode was introduced between the sixth and seventh seals, so there is one here (Re 10:1-11:14) after the sixth and introductory to the seventh trumpet (Re 11:15, which forms the grand...
(Ac 10:34; 2Ch 19:7; Pr 22:2; Job 31:15).
Their cruelty is only exceeded by their wicked and absurd presumption (Ps 10:11; 59:7).
gladness--in confidence of realizing it. expectation...perish--in disappointment.
labour...wearieth--(Isa 55:2; Hab 2:13). knoweth not how to go to the city--proverb for ignorance of the most ordinary matters (Ec 10:3); spiritually, the heavenly city (Ps 107:7; Mt 7:13, 14)....
(Jer 8:10; Isa 56:11; Mic 3:11).
As our Lord's end approaches, the preparations for the establishment of the coming Kingdom are quickened and extended.
he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep--a true, divinely recognized shepherd.
In this verse the Lord's thought (purpose) stands in antithesis to the Assyrians' thoughts (Isa 10:7). (See Isa 46:10, 11; 1Sa 15:29; Mal3:6).
habitation of shepherds...flocks--in contrast to Jer 33:10, "without man...inhabitant...without beast" (Jer 32:43; compare Jer31:24; 50:19; Isa 65:10).
where we shall see no war--Here they betray their impiety in not believing God's promise (Jer 42:10, 11), as if He were a liar (1Jo5:10).
See on Eze 10:3. one cherub--one of the four cherubim. his hand--(Eze 1:8). went out--to burn the city.
Fear not--Be not affrighted at my presence. didst set thine heart to understand--what shall come to pass to thy people at the last times (compare Da 10:14). chasten thyself--(Da 10:2, 3). thy words...