Bible Commentaries

Genesis 4:13 — to be forgiven? words which we may presume he uttered on the verge of black despair. It is most probable that עון avon signifies rather the crime than the punishment; in this sense it is used Leviticus 26:41; Leviticus 26:43; 1 Samuel 28:10; 2 Kings 7:9; and נשא nasa signifies to remit or forgive. The marginal reading is, therefore, to be preferred to that in the text.

Matthew 18:7 — Verse Matthew 18:7. Wo! — Or, alas! ουαι. It is the opinion of some eminent critics, that this word is ever used by our Lord to express sympathy and concern.Because of offences — Scandals, stumbling-blocks, persecutions, &c.For it must needs be that offences

Matthew 27:7 — Verse Matthew 27:7. To bury strangers in. — τοις ξενοις, the strangers, probably meaning, as some learned men conjecture, the Jewish strangers who might have come to Jerusalem, either to worship, or on some other business, and died there during their stay. See

Luke 7:29 — Verse 29. Justified God — Or, declared God to be just - εδικαιωσαν τον Θεον. The sense is this: John preached that the Divine wrath was coming upon the Jews, from which they might flee by repentance, Luke 3:7. The Jews, therefore, who were baptized by him, with the baptism of repentance, did thereby acknowledge that it is but justice in God to punish them for their wickedness unless they repented, and were baptized in token of it. Bp. PEARCE proves that

Acts 17:32 — subject. And thus the assembly became dissolved before the apostle had time to finish his discourse, or to draw all the conclusions he had designed from the premises he had laid down. St. Stephen's discourse was interrupted in a similar manner. See Acts 7:54, and the note there.

Romans 11:29 — Gentiles, may be both reasonably and safely inferred.Repentance, when applied to God, signifies simply change of purpose relative to some declarations made subject to certain conditions. See this fully explained and illustrated by himself, Jeremiah 18:7-9.

Romans 16:11 — Verse Romans 16:11. Herodion, my kinsman. — Probably another converted Jew. Romans 16:7.Of the household of Narcissus — Probably dead also, as we have supposed Aristobulus to have been at this time.Which are in the Lord. — This might intimate that some of this family were not Christians; those only of that family that were

Romans 7:3 — Verse Romans 7:3. So then, if, while her husband liveth — The object of the apostle's similitude is to show that each party is equally bound to the other; but that the death of either dissolves the engagement.So - she is no adulteress, though she be married

Romans 9:19 — Verse 19. Why doth he yet find fault? — The apostle here introduces the Jew making an objection similar to that in Romans 3:7: If the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory, that is, if God's faithfulness is glorified by my wickedness, why yet am I also judged as a sinner? Why am I condemned for that which brings so much glory to him? The question here

1 Corinthians 2:7 — Verse 1 Corinthians 2:7. The wisdom of God in a mystery — The GOSPEL of Jesus Christ, which had been comparatively hidden from the foundation of the world, (the settling of the Jewish economy, as this phrase often means,) though appointed from the beginning to be revealed

1 Corinthians 9:14 — Verse 1 Corinthians 9:14. Even so hath the Lord ordained — This is evidently a reference to our Lord's ordination, Matthew 10:10: The workman is worthy of his meat. And Luke 10:7: For the labourer is worthy of his hire. And in both places it is the preacher of the Gospel of whom he is speaking. It was a maxim among the Jews, "that the inhabitants of a town where a wise man had made his abode should support him, because he had

2 Corinthians 7:9 — Verse 2 Corinthians 7:9. Ye sorrowed to repentance — Ye had such a sorrow as produced a complete change of mind and conduct. We see that a man may sorrow, and yet not repent.Made sorry after a godly manner — It was not a sorrow because ye were found out, and

Ephesians 4:7 — Verse 7. Unto every one of us is given grace — Grace may here signify a particular office; as if the apostle had said: Though we are all equal in the respects already mentioned, yet we have all different offices and situations to fill up in the Church

2 Thessalonians 1:7 — Verse 7. And to you who are troubled, rest with us — And while they have tribulation, you shall have that eternal rest which remains for the people of God.When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed — But this fulness of tribulation to them, and rest

Titus 2:7 — Verse 7. In all things showing thyself a pattern — As the apostle had given directions relative to the conduct of old men, Titus 2:2, of old women, Titus 2:3, of young women, Titus 2:4, and of young men, Titus 2:6, the words περι παντα, which we translate

Hebrews 7:9 — Verse Hebrews 7:9. And as I may so say — και ως επος ειπειν. And so to speak a word. This form of speech, which is very frequent among the purest Greek writers, is generally used to soften some harsh expression, or to limit the meaning when the proposition might

1 Peter 5:7 — Verse 7. Casting all your care — τηνμεριμναν. Your anxiety, your distracting care, on him, for he careth for you, οτιαυτω μελειπεριυμων, for he meddles or concerns himself, with the things that interest you. Whatever things concern a follower of God,

1 John 3:7 — Verse 7. Let no man deceive you — Either by asserting that "you cannot be saved from sin in this life," or "that sin will do you no harm and cannot alter your state, if you are adopted into the family of God; for sin cannot annul this adoption." Hear

1 John 4:3 — out of the text.Spirit of antichrist — All the opponents of Christ's incarnation, and consequently of his passion, death, and resurrection, and the benefits to be derived from them.Ye have heard that it should come — See 2 Thessalonians 2:7.Even now already is it in the world. — Is working powerfully both among the Jews and Gentiles.

Revelation 7:14 — Verse Revelation 7:14. Sir, thou knowest — That is, I do not know, but thou canst inform me.Came out of great tribulation — Persecutions of every kind.And have washed their robes — Have obtained their pardon and purity, through the blood of the Lamb.Their