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使徒言行録 17:31

31 神は、義をもってこの世界をさばくためその日を定め、お選びになったかたによってそれをなし遂げようとされている。すなわち、このかたを死人の中からよみがえらせ、その確証をすべての人に示されたのである」。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Athens;   God Continued...;   Jesus Continued;   Judgment;   Mars' Hill;   Paul;   Readings, Select;   Responsibility;   Zeal, Religious;   Scofield Reference Index - Day (of Judgment);   Judgments;   Thompson Chain Reference - Future, the;   Judge;   Judgment;   Universal;   The Topic Concordance - Judges;   Ordination;   Resurrection;   World;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judgment, the;   Justice of God, the;   Resurrection of Christ, the;   Righteousness;   Righteousness of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Areopagus;   Judgment;   Thessalonica;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Areopagus;   Athens;   Epicureans;   God;   Judgment;   Mission;   Paul;   Righteousness;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Condemnation;   Day;   Justice;   Paul the Apostle;   Second Coming of Christ;   Time;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Judgment, Last;   Ordination;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Areopagus;   Assurance;   Day;   Judgment, the Final;   Mars Hill;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Acts of the Apostles;   Epicureans;   Paul;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Athens;   Greece;   Hope;   Judgment Day;   Preaching in the Bible;   Revelation of God;   Righteousness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Assurance;   Epicureans;   Faith;   Hope;   Idolatry;   Thessalonians, First Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Acts of the Apostles (2);   Alpha and Omega (2);   Annunciation, the ;   Assurance;   Attributes of Christ;   Certainty (2);   Christ, Christology;   Claims (of Christ);   Cross, Cross-Bearing;   Day of Judgment;   Elect, Election ;   Enoch Book of;   Eschatology;   Gospel;   Inspiration and Revelation;   Pre-Eminence ;   Predestination;   Quotations;   Resurrection;   Resurrection of Christ;   Resurrection of Christ (2);   Righteousness;   Simon Magus;   Supremacy;   Wisdom;   World;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Philosopher, Philosophy;   Repentance;   World, the;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Christ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Areopagus;   Athens;   Day;   Jason;   Judgment the day of;   Mars;   Names titles and offices of christ;   World;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Areop'agite;   Mars' Hill,;   Paul;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Christ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   Kingdom or Church of Christ, the;   Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Doctrine;   Justification;   Ordain;   Parousia;   Person of Christ;   Philosophy;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for October 27;   Every Day Light - Devotion for October 8;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he hath appointed: Acts 10:42, Matthew 25:31-46, John 5:22, John 5:23, Romans 2:5, Romans 2:16, Romans 14:9, Romans 14:10, 1 Corinthians 4:5, 2 Corinthians 5:10, 2 Timothy 4:1, 2 Peter 3:7, Jude 1:14, Jude 1:15

given assurance: or, offered faith

in that: Acts 17:18, Acts 2:23, Acts 2:24, Acts 2:32, Acts 3:15, Acts 3:16, Acts 4:10, Acts 5:30-32, Acts 10:39-41, Acts 13:30, Acts 13:31, Luke 24:46-48, 1 Corinthians 15:3-8

Reciprocal: Job 14:13 - appoint me Psalms 7:8 - The Lord Psalms 9:8 - General Psalms 51:4 - when Psalms 67:4 - for thou Psalms 75:2 - receive the congregation Psalms 96:10 - judge Psalms 98:9 - with righteousness Ecclesiastes 3:17 - God Ecclesiastes 11:9 - know Ecclesiastes 12:14 - General Isaiah 2:4 - And he Isaiah 10:22 - with Isaiah 51:5 - mine Isaiah 60:2 - the darkness Jeremiah 11:20 - judgest Daniel 11:27 - yet Micah 4:3 - he shall judge Zechariah 6:12 - behold Zechariah 14:7 - which Matthew 9:13 - but Matthew 20:7 - Because Matthew 25:32 - before Luke 19:12 - and Luke 24:47 - that John 5:27 - hath John 8:16 - yet John 11:24 - I know John 16:11 - judgment Acts 3:20 - General Acts 4:2 - preached Acts 10:40 - General Acts 25:19 - which Acts 26:8 - General Romans 1:4 - the Son Romans 2:2 - judgment Romans 2:12 - For Romans 3:6 - for then Romans 4:15 - Because Romans 9:28 - in righteousness 1 Corinthians 5:13 - God 1 Corinthians 6:14 - God 1 Corinthians 15:4 - he rose 1 Corinthians 15:14 - General Ephesians 2:3 - in times 1 Thessalonians 1:10 - whom 1 Thessalonians 4:5 - know 2 Timothy 3:14 - assured Hebrews 4:13 - with Hebrews 6:2 - resurrection Hebrews 9:27 - but Hebrews 13:20 - brought 1 Peter 2:23 - judgeth 1 Peter 4:5 - that 1 John 5:9 - we Revelation 2:5 - and repent Revelation 2:16 - Repent Revelation 20:11 - I saw

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because he hath appointed a day,.... The day of judgment is fixed by God in his eternal purposes, and is sure and certain, and will come, though it is not known by men or angels; and this is a reason why God will have the doctrine of repentance everywhere published, both to Jews and Gentiles, since all must come to judgment: and the day for it is appointed by him,

in the which he will judge the world in righteousness; the whole world will be judged, and every individual in it, good and bad, righteous and wicked; and this judgment will be a righteous one; it will proceed according to the strict rules of justice and equity, and upon the foot of the righteousness of Christ, as that has been received or rejected by men, or as men are clothed with, or are without that righteousness:

by that man whom he hath ordained; Beza's ancient copy reads, "the man Jesus": not that the apostle means that Christ is a mere man; for then he would not be fit to be a Judge of quick and dead, and to pass and execute the definitive sentence; which requires omniscience and omnipotence: but preaching to mere Heathens, he chose not at once to assert the deity of Christ, though he tacitly suggests it: but intended, by degrees, to open the glories of his nature and office to them, he being the person God had from all eternity ordained, and in time had signified, should have all judgment committed to him, and by whom the last judgment shall be managed and transacted:

whereof he hath given assurance to all men: or full proof, both of his being the Judge, and of his fitness to be one, and also of the righteousness, according to which he will judge:

in that he hath raised him from the dead; whereby he was declared to be the Son of God; and when all power in heaven and in earth was given to him; and which was done for the justification of all those for whose offences he was delivered: and this seems to be the reason why the apostle calls Christ the Judge a man, that he might have the opportunity of mentioning his resurrection from the dead.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because he hath appointed a day - This is given as a reason why God commands people to repent. They must be judged; and if they are not penitent and pardoned, they must be condemned. See the notes on Romans 2:16.

Judge the world - The whole world - Jews and Gentiles.

In righteousness - According to the principles of strict justice.

Whom he hath ordained - Or whom he has constituted or appointed as judge. See the Acts 10:42 notes; John 5:25 notes.

Hath given assurance - Has afforded evidence of this. That evidence consists:

(1) In the fact that Jesus declared that he would judge the nations John 5:25-26; Matthew 25:0; and,

(2) God confirmed the truth of his declarations by raising him from the dead, or gave his sanction to what the Lord Jesus had said, for God would nor work a miracle in favor of an impostor.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 31. He hath appointed a day — He has fixed the time in which he will judge the world, though he has not revealed this time to man.

By that man whom he hath ordained — He has also appointed the judge, by whom the inhabitants of the earth are to be tried.

Whereof he hath given assurance — ΠιϚιν παρασχων πασιν, Having given to all this indubitable proof, that Jesus Christ shall judge the world, by raising him from the dead. The sense of the argument is this: "Jesus Christ, whom we preach as the Saviour of men, has repeatedly told his followers that he would judge the world; and has described to us, at large, the whole of the proceedings of that awful time, Matthew 25:31, c. John 5:25. Though he was put to death by the Jews, and thus he became a victim for sin, yet God raised him from the dead. By raising him from the dead, God has set his seal to the doctrines he has taught: one of these doctrines is, that he shall judge the world; his resurrection, established by the most incontrovertible evidence, is therefore a proof, an incontestable proof, that he shall judge the world, according to his own declaration."


 
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