Bible Commentaries

Matthew 7:25 — 25. ] This similitude must not be pressed to an allegorical or symbolical meaning in its details, e.g. so that the rain, floods, and winds should mean three distinct kinds of temptation: but the ROCK, as signifying Him who spoke this, is of too frequent

Luke 22:1-2 — 1, 2. ] CONSPIRACY OF THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES TO KILL JESUS. Matthew 26:1-5 .Mark 14:1-2; Mark 14:1-2 . The account of Matt. is the fullest: see notes there. The words here give us a mere compendium of what took place.

Acts 10:9 — 9 .] By δῶμα , Jerome, Luther, Erasm., al., understand an upper chamber. But why not then ὑπερῷον , a word which Luke so frequently uses? It was the flat roof, much frequented in the East for purposes of exercise (2 Samuel 11:2 ; Daniel 4:29 , marg.), of sleeping in summer (1 Samuel 9:26 , by inference, and as expressed in LXX), of conversation (ib. 1Sa 10:25 ), of mourning (Isaiah 15:8 ; Jer 48:38 ), of erecting booths at the feast of tabernacles ( Neh 8:16 ),

Acts 16:1 — extending from north to south through a distance of eighty miles. See various interesting particulars in C. and H. i. p. 301 ff. and notes. ἐκεῖ ] At Lystra : which, and not Derbe, was in all probability the birth-place of Timotheus: see on ch. Acts 20:4 . This view is confirmed by Acts 16:2 . He had probably been converted by Paul during his former visit, as he calls him his son in the Lord , 1 Corinthians 4:17 ; 1 Timothy 1:2 ; 2 Timothy 1:2 ; perhaps at Antioch in Pisidia, see 2 Timothy 3:10-11

Acts 17:2 — 2. κατὰ τ . εἰωθ . ] See marg. reff. in E. V Paul was most probably suffering still from his ‘shameful treatment’ at Philippi, 1Th 2:2 διελέγ . argued , see reff. ἀπὸ τ . γραφ . is best taken with διελέγ ., not with διανοίγων : see reff.

Acts 2:10 — 10. Φρυγίαν ] ἡ μεγάλη φρυγία of Strabo, xii. 8: Jos. Antt. xvi. 2. 2. It was at this time part of the Roman province of Asia. Παμφυλίαν ] A small district, extending along the coast from Olbia (Strabo, xiv. 4), or Phaselis (Plin. Act 2:27 ), to Ptolemais (Strabo, l. c). It was a separate tributary district ( χωρὶς

Acts 2:6 — mean, ‘ this rumour’ (‘when this was noised abroad ,’ E. V.: so also Erasm., Calv., Beza, Grotius, &c.), which would be unexampled (the two passages cited for this sense from the LXX are no examples; Genesis 45:16 ; Jeremiah 27:0 :(50) 46). We have then to choose between two things to which φωνή might refer: (1) the ἦχος or Acts 2:2 , to which it seems bound by the past part. γενομένης (compare Acts 2:2 , ἐγένετο … ἦχος ), which would hardly be used of a speaking which

Acts 23:2 — 2. Ἀνανίας ] He was at this time the actual high priest ( Act 23:4 ). He was the son of Nebedæus (Jos. Antt. xx. 5. 2), succeeded Joseph son of Camydus, Antt. xx. 1. 3; 5. 2, and preceded Ismael, son of Phabi (Antt. xx. 8. 8, 11). He was nominated to

Romans 12:14 — 14 .] “The Sermon on the Mount must have been particularly well known; for among the few references in the N. T. Epistles to the direct words of Christ there occur several to it: e.g. 1 Corinthians 7:10 . James 4:9 ; James 5:12 (we may add Romans 4:3 ; Romans 1:2 ; Romans 1:22 , Romans 2:5 ; Romans 2:13 ; Romans 5:2-3 ; Rom 5:10 ). 1Pe 3:9 ; 1 Peter 3:14 ; 1 Peter 4:14 .” Tholuck.

1 Corinthians 11:17 — 17. ] Refers back to what has been said since 1 Corinthians 11:2 , and forms a transition to what is yet to be said. But this (viz. what has gone before , respecting the veiling of women ; not, as Chrys., Theophyl, Grot., Bengel, al., that which follows: see below) I command you (not ‘ announce to you,

1 Corinthians 11:2-34 — 1 Corinthians 11:2-34 . ] REPROOFS AND DIRECTIONS REGARDING CERTAIN DISORDERS WHICH HAD ARISEN IN THEIR ASSEMBLIES: viz. (1) THE NOT VEILING OF THEIR WOMEN IN PUBLIC PRAYER ( 1Co 11:2-16 ): (2) THE ABUSE OF THE ἀγάπαι (17 34).

2 Corinthians 12:18 — 18. ] παρεκάλεσα , scil. ‘ to go to you :’ see reff. This journey of Titus cannot, of course, be the one spoken of ch. 2Co 8:6 ; 2 Corinthians 8:17 ; 2 Corinthians 8:22 ; 2 Corinthians 8:24 ; but some previous mission to them before this Epistle was written: probably that from which he returned with the report of their penitence to Paul in Macedonia, ch. 2 Corinthians

2 Corinthians 12:19 — 19. ] πάλαι was misunderstood, and πάλιν appears to have been a conjectural emendation, from ch. 2 Corinthians 3:1 ; 2 Corinthians 5:12 . πάλαι does not suit the interrogative form of the sentence, which would throw it out into too strong emphasis. Lachmann, Tischdf. (Exodus 7:0 [and 8]), Meyer, De Wette read it as in text: Ye have been some time

2 Corinthians 2:1 — of the words; implying, that some former visit had been in grief . Clearly the first visit Acts 18:1 ff., could not be thus described: we must therefore infer, that an intermediate unrecorded visit had been paid by him. On this subject, compare ch. 2Co 12:14 ; 2Co 13:1 and notes: and see Prolegg. to 1 Cor. § v. ἐν λύπῃ ] is explained in 2Co 2:2-3 to mean (so Estius, Bengel, Rückert, Olsh., De Wette, al.) in mutual grief : ‘I grieving you ( 2Co 2:2 ), and you grieving me’ ( 2Co 2:3

2 Corinthians 6:4 — 4. ] Meyer well remarks the position of συνιστ . ἑαυτούς . When the words signified ‘to recommend ourselves ,’ in a bad sense, ch. 2 Corinthians 3:1 , 2 Corinthians 5:12 , ἑαυτ . preceded the verb: but here and ch. 2 Corinthians 4:2 , where used in a good sense, and without any stress on ἑαυτούς , it follows the verb. This is only one of continually occurring instances of the importance

Philippians 2:25 — 25 .] συνστρατ . applies to the combat with the powers of darkness, in which the ministers of Christ are the leaders: see besides ref., 2 Timothy 2:3 . ὑμ . δέ ] the contrast is to μου above. ἀπόστολον , not in the ordinary sense of Apostle,

2 Thessalonians 2:13 — been recently speaking. ὀφείλομεν ] q. d. find it our duty: subjective: are bound , as E. V. ἠγ . ὑπὸ κυρ . ] Lünemann remarks, that as τῷ θεῷ has preceded, and ὁ θεός follows, κύριος here must be the Lord Jesus: cf. Romans 8:37 ; Galatians 2:20 ; Ephesians 5:2 ; Ephesians 5:25 . Otherwise, the expression is perhaps more normally used of the Father, 2 Thessalonians 2:16 ; Ephesians 2:4 ; Colossians 3:12 ; John 3:16 , al. freq. ὅτι ] may enounce either (as Ellicott) the matter and grounds

Hebrews 11:31 — 31 .] The last example is one connected with the taking of Jericho, just mentioned. By faith (shewn in her confession Joshua 2:9 , “I know that Jehovah hath given you the land:” and Joshua 2:11 , “Jehovah your God, He is God in heaven above and in earth beneath”) Rahab the harlot (not to be softened into “ cauponaria ,” as Valcknaer, al.

James 2:7 — who maintain them to be Christian rich men, would understand βλασφημεῖν , to disgrace by their lives: but apart from other objections, Huther has remarked well, that when the verb is thus used, it is ordinarily in the passive with διὰ , see Romans 2:24 ; Titus 2:5 ; 2 Peter 2:2 ; Isaiah 52:5 , not as a direct active governing a case, which is far more naturally taken in its literal sense) the goodly name which was called on you (i. e. which when you were admitted into Christ’s Church by

Revelation 18:17-19 — 17 19 .] The lamentation of the shipmasters, &c . And every pilot and every one who saileth any whither (the same expression, without the preposition, is found in Acts 27:2 . The words here import, all sailors from place to place), and sailors and as many as make traffic of the sea ( τ . θάλασσαν ἐργάζεσθαι , ‘mare exercere,’ to live by seafaring, is abundantly illustrated by Wetst, from the classics and