Bible Commentaries

Matthew 13:33 — 33. ] FOURTH PARABLE. THE LEAVEN. Luke 13:20-21 . Difficulties have been raised as to the interpretation of this parable which do not seem to belong to it. It has been questioned whether ζύμη must not be taken in the sense in which it so often occurs

John 1:18 — 18. ] The connexion is: ‘Moses could not give out of the πλήρωμα of grace and truth, for he had no immediate sight of God, and no man can have: there is but One who can ἐξηγεῖσθαι θεόν , the μονογενὴς υἱός , who is no mere man , but abides

Romans 1:17 — 17. ] An explanation, how the gospel is the power of God to salvation , and how it is so to the believer : because in it God’s righteousness (not His attribute of righteousness, ‘the righteousness of God,’ but righteousness

Romans 3:25 — 25. ] προέθετο , not here ‘ decreed ,’ as in reff. N. T., but put forth, set forth , manifested historically in His incarnation, sufferings, and exaltation. Wetst. quotes Thucyd. ii. 34, τὰ ὀστᾶ προτίθενται τῶν ἀπογενομένων , ‘they

Ephesians 1:13 — 13 .] What is the construction? Have we but one sentence, ἐν ᾧ … ἐσφραγίσθητε , the two participial clauses being parallel, and both belonging to the verb? so the ff., Beng., De W., Ellic., (by whom the view is well defended and explained,) &c. But

Colossians 2:20 — 20 .] Warning against asceticism . If ye died (in your baptism, as detailed above, Col 2:11 if.) with Christ from (a pregnant construction: ‘died, and so were set free from:’ not found elsewhere in N. T.: cf. Romans 6:2 ; Galatians 2:19

Hebrews 1:6 — 6 .] But ( δέ , because a further proof, and a more decisive one as regards the angels, is about to be adduced) when He again (or, ‘ when again He ’? Does πάλιν introduce a new citation, or does it belong to εἰσαγάγῃ , and denote

Hebrews 2:10 — 10 .] For (the connexion with the foregoing, see above. The γάρ renders a reason why the result just introduced by the ὅπως should have been one which the χάρις θεοῦ contemplated) it became (as matter not only of decorum, but of sequence from the

Hebrews 3:10 — 10 .] Wherefore (see above: διό is inserted, to mark more strongly the reference of τεσς . ἔτη to the preceding. It is impossible, with διό , to join those words to this sentence and understand διό as = διὰ ταῦτα , Estius, Piscator, Grot., &c. Instead

Hebrews 9:22 — 22 .] and almost ( one may say that ) (the σχεδόν belongs, not to the πάντα , nor to the ἐν αἵματι (Bengel, Böhme), nor to the καθαρίζεται (as Chrys., Œc., Thl., διὰ τί τὸ σχεδὸν προσέθηκε ; διότι ἐκεῖνα οὐκ ἦν καθαρισμὸς τέλειος ), but to the

Revelation 1:3 — 3 .] Blessed is (or be , in the ordinary meaning of μακάριος : not necessarily referring on to eternal blessedness, as Hengst.) he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy and observe the things written in it; for the time is near

Revelation 12:7 — 7 ff.] And there was war in heaven (we now enter upon a mysterious series of events in the world of spirits, with regard to which merely fragmentary hints are given us in the Scriptures. In the O. T. we find the adversary Satan in heaven. In Job 1:2

Revelation 15:1-8 — Revelation 15:1-8 .] PREFATORY: the description of the vision , Revelation 15:1 ; the song of triumph of the saints victorious over the beast , Revelation 15:2-4 ; the coming forth of the seven angels and delivering to them of the seven vials , Revelation

Revelation 3:1-6 — 1 6 .] THE EPISTLE TO THE CHURCH AT SARDIS. The Spirit of this Epistle is one of rebuke and solemn denunciation. Even the promise, Revelation 3:5 , is tinged with the same hue. For the history, see Prolegg., § iii. 10. And to the angel of the church

Revelation 3:7-13 — 7 13 .] THE EPISTLE TO THE CHURCH AT PHILADELPHIA. It has been remarked, that this Epistle hears a tinge throughout of O. T. language and imagery, correspondent to the circumstances of the church as connected with the Jews dwelling there. For the history,

Revelation 4:5 — 5 .] And out of the throne go forth (the tense is changed, and the narrative assumes the direct form, which, however, is immediately dropped again, and the accumulation of details resumed) lightnings and voices and thunders (the imagery seems to