Bible Commentaries

John 15:4 — Verse John 15:4. Abide in me — Hold fast faith and a good conscience; and let no trials turn you aside from the truth. And I will abide in you-ye shall receive every help and influence from me that your souls can require, in order to preserve and save them to

John 17:2 — universal inheritance made to Christ, Psalms 2:8, which was to be made up of the heathen, and the uttermost parts of the land, all the Jewish people. So that he got all from God, that he might give his life a ransom for the whole. See 2 Corinthians 5:14-15; Romans 5:21; 1 Timothy 2:4; 1 Timothy 2:6.That he should have eternal life, c.] As all were delivered into his power, and he poured out his blood to redeem all, then the design of God is that all should have eternal life, because all are given for

Acts 10:47 — Verse Acts 10:47. Can any man forbid water — These had evidently received the Holy Ghost, and consequently were become members of the mystical body of Christ; and yet St. Peter requires that they shall receive baptism by water, that they might become members

Acts 14:19 — Verse Acts 14:19. There came thither certain Jews from Antioch — Those were, no doubt, the same who had raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, at Iconium and Antioch, before: they followed the apostles with implacable malice; and what they could not

Acts 16:4 — Verse Acts 16:4. They delivered them the decrees for to keep — Τα δογματα, τα κεκριμενα ὑπο των ΑποϚολων. Bishop Pearce contends that τα δογματα, the decrees, is a gloss which was not in the text originally; and that the τα κεκριμενα, the judgments or determinations

Acts 17:11 — conceal their approbation.3. They searched the Scriptures, i.e. of the Old Testament, to see whether these thing were so: to see whether the promises and types corresponded with the alleged fulfilment in the person, works, and sufferings of Jesus Christ.4. They continued in this work; they searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Acts 22:1 — CHAPTER XXII. Paul, in his address to the people, gives an account of his birth and education, 1-3. His prejudices against Christianity, 4, 5. And of his miraculous conversion, and call to the apostleship, 6-21. The Jews, hearing him say that God had sent him to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles, become exceedingly outrageous, and clamour for his life, 22, 23. The chief captain orders

1 Corinthians 7:28 — virgin marry — Both the man and the woman have equal privileges in this case; either of them may marry without sin. It is probable, as there were many sects and parties in Corinth, that there were among them those who forbade to marry, 1 Timothy 4:3, and who might have maintained other doctrines of devils besides. These persons, or such doctrines, the apostle has in view when he says, They may marry and yet not sin.Trouble in the flesh — From the simple circumstance of the incumbrance of

2 Corinthians 1:4 — Verse 2 Corinthians 1:4. Who comforteth us — Who shows himself to be the God of tender mercy, by condescending to notice us, who have never deserved any good at his hand; and also the God of all consolation, by comforting us in all our tribulation-never leaving us a

2 Corinthians 11:4 — Verse 2 Corinthians 11:4. For if he that cometh — The false apostle, who came after St. Paul had left Corinth.Preacheth another Jesus — Who can save more fully and more powerfully than that Jesus whom I have preached.Or if ye receive another spirit — And if

2 Corinthians 12:14 — Verse 14. The third time I am ready — That is, this is the third time that I am ready-have formed the resolution, to visit you. He had formed this resolution twice before, but was disappointed. See 1 Corinthians 16:5, and 2 Corinthians 1:15; 2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians 7:11 — the guilty person, and putting away evil from among you, 1 Corinthians 5:13; yea, what indignation against him who had dishonoured his profession, and defiled the Church; yea, what fear of my displeasure, and the rod which I threatened, 1 Corinthians 4:21; yea, what vehement desire to rectify what was amiss in this matter, 2 Corinthians 7:7; yea, what zeal for me; yea, what revenge in punishing the delinquent. See Whitby.In all things, c.] In the whole of your conduct in this affair since ye have

Ephesians 4:3 — Verse Ephesians 4:3. Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. — There can be no doubt that the Church at Ephesus was composed partly of converted Jews, as well as Gentiles. Now, from the different manner in which they had been brought

Ephesians 5:4 — Verse Ephesians 5:4. Neither filthiness — αισχροτης. Any thing base or vile in words or acts.Foolish talking — μωρολογια. Scurrility, buffoonery, ridicule, or what tends to expose another to contempt.Nor jesting — ευτραπελια. Artfully turned discourses

Philippians 2:8 — — Laid himself as low as possible:1. In emptying himself-laying aside the effulgence of his glory.2. In being incarnate-taking upon him the human form.3. In becoming a servant-assuming the lowest innocent character, that of being the servant of all.4. In condescending to die, to which he was not naturally liable, as having never sinned, and therefore had a right in his human nature to immortality, without passing under the empire of death.5. In condescending, not only to death, but to the lowest

1 Thessalonians 5:10 — show that every where and in all circumstances genuine believers, who walk after God, have life and communion with him, and are continually happy, and constantly safe. The apostle, however, may refer to the doctrine he has delivered, 1 Thessalonians 4:15, concerning the dead in Christ rising first; and the last generation of men not dying, but undergoing such a change as shall render them immortal. On that great day, all the followers of God, both those who had long slept in the dust of the earth,

2 Timothy 4:20 — and there became finally settled.Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick. — Even the apostles could not work miracles when they pleased; that power was but rarely given, and that for very special purposes. Trophimus was an Ephesian. See Acts 20:4, and the note there.Miletus was a maritime town of Ionia, not far from Ephesus; but there was another Miletus, in Crete, which some learned men think to be intended here. It appears that St. Paul went from Macedonia to Corinth, where he left Erastus;

Titus 3:12 — either deacons or presbyters, which the apostle intended to send to Crete, to supply the place of Titus. Who Artemas was we know not; he is not mentioned in any other place in the New Testament. Tychicus was a native of Asia, as we learn from Acts 20:4, where see the note.Be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis — Nicopolis was a city of Epirus, on the gulf of Ambracia, near to Actium, which Augustus built in commemoration of his victory over Mark Antony. There was another Nicopolis in Thrace,

Hebrews 7:12 — the unholy heart, nor open the kingdom of heaven to the souls of men, consequently it must be abolished, according to the order of God himself; for he said, Sacrifice and offering, and burnt-offering, and sacrifice for sin, he would not; see Psalms 40:6; Psalms 40:7, compared with Hebrews 10:5-10, and with Psalms 110:4, where it is evident God designed to change both the law and the priesthood, and to introduce Jesus as the only Priest and Sacrifice, and to substitute the Gospel system for that

1 Peter 1:4 — Verse 1 Peter 1:4. To an inheritance — Called an inheritance because it belongs to the children of God. Eternal life cannot be a gift to any but these; for, even in heaven, the lot is dealt out according to law: if children, then heirs; if not children, then not