Bible Commentaries

John 10:11 — Verse John 10:11. I am the good shepherd — Whose character is the very reverse of that which has already been described. In John 10:7; John 10:9, our Lord had called himself the door of the sheep, as being the sole way to glory, and entrance into eternal life; here he changes the thought, and calls himself the shepherd, because of what he was to do for them that believe in him, in order to prepare

John 7:38 — of the indwelling Spirit, from the indwelling Christ. The Jews frequently compare the gifts and influences of the Holy Spirit to water in general-to rain, fountains, wells, rivers, c., c. The Scriptures abound in this metaphor. Psalms 36:8, Psalms 36:9; Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 44:4; Joel 2:23.

John 9:8 — Verse John 9:8. That he was blind — Ὁτι τυφλος ην: but, instead of this, προσαιτης, when he begged, or was a beggar, is the reading of ABC*DKL, seven others, both the Syriac, both the Arabic, later Persic, Coptic, AEthiopic, Armenian, Sahidic, Gothic, Slavonic,

Acts 10:9 — Verse Acts 10:9. On the morrow, as they went on their journey — From Joppa to Caesarea was about twelve or fifteen leagues; the messengers could not have left the house of Cornelius till about two hours before sunset; therefore, they must have travelled a part

Acts 18:23 — Jerusalem at this time, which we are left to infer, for Luke has not expressed it, (Acts 18:22,) it was his fourth journey thither and this is generally supposed to have been the twenty-first year after his conversion. His first journey is mentioned Acts 9:26; his second, Acts 11:30; his third, Acts 15:4; and his fourth, Acts 18:22, the place above.

Acts 20:27 — 20:20.All the counsel of God. — All that God has determined and revealed concerning the salvation of man-the whole doctrine of Christ crucified, with repentance towards God, and faith in Jesus as the Messiah and great atoning Priest. In Isaiah 9:6, Jesus Christ is called the wonderful counsellor, פלא יועץ Pele Poets, which the Septuagint translate μεγαλης βουλης αγγελος The messenger of the great counsel. To this the apostle may have referred, as we well know that this version was constantly

Acts 23:9 — Verse Acts 23:9. The scribes - arose, and strove — διεμαχοντο, They contended forcibly-they came to an open rupture with the Sadducees; and, in order to support their own party against them, they even admitted as truth, St. Paul's account of his miraculous conversion,

Acts 28:10 — in the same way. In the sense of a pecuniary recompense, or price, paid for any thing, the word τιμη is met with in 1 Corinthians 6:20; and 1 Corinthians 7:23. And in the Septuagint, Numbers 22:17; compared with Numbers 22:18; Psalms 8:5; and Psalms 49:12; Proverbs 3:9. Bp. Pearce.Such things as were necessary. — They had before given them many presents, and now they gave them a good sea stock; all that was necessary for their passage.

Acts 9:20 — Verse Acts 9:20. Preached Christ in the synagogues — Instead of χριστον, Christ, ιησουν, Jesus, is the reading of ABCE, several others of high importance, together with the Syriac, Coptic, AEthiopic, Armenian, Slavonic, and Vulgate.The great question to be

Romans 9:10 — Verse Romans 9:10. And not only this — A Jew might object: "Ishmael was rejected, not by the sovereign will of God, but because he was the son of the handmaid, or bond-woman, and therefore unworthy to be the peculiar seed; but observe, this was not the only

Romans 9:11 — Verse Romans 9:11. For the children being not yet born — As the word children is not in the text, the word nations would be more proper; for it is of nations that the apostle speaks, as the following verses show, as well as the history to which he refers.Neither

1 Corinthians 1:14 — to the Corinthians. I wrote, says he, unto the Church-What Church? Certainly it must have been some particular Church which the apostle has in view, and the Church where Gaius himself resided. And if this be true, we may look for Diotrephes (3 John 1:9) in the Corinthian Church; and the author of the schism of which the apostle complains. See the Introduction, sect. viii.

1 Corinthians 15:9 — Verse 1 Corinthians 15:9. I am the least of the apostles — This was literally true in reference to his being chosen last, and chosen not in the number of the twelve, but as an extra apostle. How much pains do some men take to make the apostle contradict himself, by attempting

1 Corinthians 9:16 — Verse 1 Corinthians 9:16. For though I preach the Gospel — I have cause of glorying that I preach the Gospel free of all charges to you; but I cannot glory in being a preacher of the Gospel, because I am not such either by my own skill or power. I have received both

2 Corinthians 6:9 — Verse 2 Corinthians 6:9. As unknown — Persons who are to be suspected as harbouring dark designs; persons of neither birth, parentage, nor respectable connections in life;And yet well known — Proved by our whole conduct to have no such designs, and demonstrated

2 Corinthians 7:15 — Verse 15. And his inward affection — τα σπλαγαγχνα αυτου. Those bowels of his-his most tender affection. For the meaning of this word Matthew 9:36.Whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all — This is a very natural picture; he represents Titus as overjoyed even while he is delivering his account of the Corinthian Church. He expatiated on it with extreme delight, and thereby showed

2 Corinthians 9:5 — Verse 2 Corinthians 9:5. Whereof ye had notice before — Instead of προκατηγγελμενην, spoken of before, BCDEFG, several others, with the Coptic, Vulgate, Itala, and several of the fathers, have προεπηγγελμενην, what was promised before. The sense is not very different;

2 Corinthians 9:7 — Verse 2 Corinthians 9:7. Not grudgingly, or of necessity — The Jews had in the temple two chests for alms; the one was של תובה of what was necessary, i.e. what the law required, the other was של נרבה of the free-will offerings. To escape perdition some would grudgingly

1 Timothy 3:9 — Verse 9. Holding the mystery of the faith — Instead of της πιστεως, the faith, one MS. (the readings of which are found in the margin of a copy of Mill's Greek text in the Bodleian library, and which is marked 61 in Griesbach) reads αναστασεως, of the

1 Timothy 5:9 — Verse 9. Taken into the number — Let her not be taken into the list of those for which the Church must provide. But some think that the apostle means the list of those who were deaconesses in the Church; and that no widow was to be admitted into that