Bible Commentaries

Luke 11:7 — Verse Luke 11:7. My children are with me in bed — Or, I and my children are in bed; this is Bishop PEARCE'S translation, and seems to some preferable to the common one. See a like form of speech in 1 Corinthians 16:11, and in Ephesians 3:18. However, we may conceive

Luke 13:35 — Verse Luke 13:35. Your house — Ὁ οικος, the temple-called here your house, not my house - I acknowledge it no longer; I have abandoned it, and will dwell in it no more for ever. So he said, 2 Chronicles 36:17, when he delivered the temple into the hands of the Chaldeans - the house of YOUR sanctuary. A similar form of speech is found, Exodus 32:7, where the Lord said to Moses, THY people, c., to intimate that he acknowledged them no longer for his followers.

John 11:12 — Verse John 11:12. If he sleep, he shall do well. — That is, if he sleep only, c. Though the word sleep frequently meant death, (see Acts 7:60; 1 Corinthians 11:30; 1 Corinthians 15:18, 1 Corinthians 15:20), yet, as it was an ambiguous term, the disciples appear here to have mistaken its meaning. Because, in certain acute disorders, the composing the patient to rest was a favourable sign;

John 6:5 — appear that John follows any strict chronological order.From John 6:15, it appears that our Lord had come down from the mountain, and fed the multitudes in a plain at the foot of it.Saith unto Philip — This, with what follows, to the end of John 6:7 the seventh verse, is not mentioned by any of the other evangelists.Philip was probably the provider for the disciples, as Judas was the treasurer.Whence shall we buy bread — Instead of αγορασομεν, shall we buy, I should read αγορασωμεν, may we

John 7:17 — Verse John 7:17. If any man wilt do his will, c.] I will give you a sure rule by which ye may judge of my doctrine: If you really wish to do the will of God, begin the practice of it and take my doctrine, and apply it to all that you know God requires of man; and

John 7:39 — was to supply the place of Christ to his disciples and to all true believers; and therefore it was not necessary till after the removal of his bodily presence from among them. See our Lord's own words, John 14:16-18; John 14:26; John 15:26; John 16:7-15.

John 8:7 — Verse John 8:7. He that is without sin — αναμαρτητος, meaning the same kind of sin, adultery, fornication, c. Kypke has largely proved that the verb αμαρτανειν is used in this sense by the best Greek writers.Let him first cast a stone at her. — Or, upon

Acts 13:7 — Verse Acts 13:7. The deputy of the country — ανθυπατω, The proconsul. Rosenmuller and others remark, that in those days the Romans sent two different kinds of governors into the provinces. Some of the provinces were Caesarean or imperial, and into those they

Acts 16:10 — JESUS, several MSS., such as ABCE, several others, with the Coptic, Vulgate, Theophylact, and Jerome, have οθεος, GOD. Though this stands on very reputable authority, yet the former seems to be the better reading; for it was the SPIRIT of JESUS, Acts 16:7, that would not suffer them to go into Bithynia, because he had designed that they should immediately preach the Gospel in Macedonia.

Acts 21:39 — Verse Acts 21:39. I am a man which am a Jew — A periphrasis for, I am a Jew. Acts 7:2.Of Tarsus - no mean city — In Clarke's notes on "Acts 9:11", I have shown that Tarsus was a city of considerable importance, and in some measure a rival to Rome and Athens; and that, because of the services tendered to the Romans by the inhabitants,

Acts 4:7 — Verse Acts 4:7. By what power, or by what name, have ye done this? — It seems that this council were convinced that the lame man was miraculously healed; but it is very likely that they believed the whole to be the effect of magic; and, as all intercourse with

Acts 7:19 — Verse Acts 7:19. The same dealt subtilty — ουτος κατασοφισαμενος, A word borrowed from the Septuagint, who thus translate the Hebrew נהחכמה לו nithchokmah lo, let us deal wisely with it, i.e. with cunning and deceit, as the Greek word implies; and which is

Romans 16:7 — Verse Romans 16:7. Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen — As the word συγγενεις signifies relatives, whether male or female, and as Junia may probably be the name of a woman, the wife of Andronicus, it would be better to say relatives than kinsmen. But probably St.

Romans 3:4 — in any case, his promise appear to fail, it is because the condition on which it was given has not been complied with which is the sense of what is written, Psalms 51:4: I acknowledge my sin, and condemn myself that the truth of thy promise (2 Samuel 7:15-16) to establish my house and throne for ever, may be vindicated when thou shalt execute that dreadful threatening, (2 Samuel 12:10,) that the sword shall never depart from my house, which I own I have brought upon myself by my own iniquity. Should

2 Corinthians 10:7 — Verse 2 Corinthians 10:7. Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? — Do not be carried away with appearances; do not be satisfied with show and parade.If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's — Here, as in several other places of this and the preceding

2 Corinthians 7:4 — Verse 2 Corinthians 7:4. Great is my boldness of speech — He seems to refer to the manner in which he spoke of them to others.Great is my glorying of you — They had probably been very loving and affectionate previously to the time in which they were perverted

Galatians 3:19 — the figure explained.Till the seed should come — The law was to be in force till the advent of the Messiah. After that it was to cease.It was ordained by angels — The ministry of angels was certainly used in giving the law; see Psalms 68:17; Acts 7:53; and Hebrews 2:2; but they were only instruments for transmitting; Moses was the mediator between God and the people, Deuteronomy 5:5.

Ephesians 2:7 — Verse 7. That in the ages to come — God has produced us an example, and one which shall be on record through all generations, that he quickens dead souls; that he forgives the sins of the most sinful, when they repent and believe in Christ Jesus. So that

Philippians 4:7 — Verse 7. And the peace of God — That harmonizing of all passions and appetites which is produced by the Holy Spirit, and arises from a sense of pardon and the favour of God;Shall keep your hearts — φρουρησει. Shall keep them as in a strong place

Colossians 1:7 — Verse 7. As ye also learned of Epaphras - who is for you — Who this Epaphras was we cannot tell; only it is likely that he was a Colossian, and became, by the call and grace of Christ, a deacon of this Church, faithfully labouring with the apostle, to