Acts 7:8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision Or the covenant, of which circumcision was a sign or token, ( Genesis 17:11 ) . Stephen speaks h...
1 Chronicles 4:4 And Penuel the father of Gedor The prince of that place, according to some, and the same with Hareph, ( 1 Chronicles 2:51 ) , and Ez...
Acts 7:24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong Beza's Cambridge copy, and one of Stephens's, and one in the Bodleian library add, of his own kindred: a...
Luke 7:45 Thou gavest me no kiss A token of civility among friends, when they met together on any occasion. The Jews have a saying F2, that ``all ki...
Ezekiel 16:55 When thy sisters, Sodom, and her daughters, shall return to their former estate The Jews, as Jerom says, are of opinion, that in the day...
Luke 16:11 If therefore ye have not been faithful This is the application of the above proverbial expressions, and seems to be directed to the discipl...
Psalms 89:27 Also I will make him my firstborn Or, make him the firstborn; make him great, as Jarchi interprets it; give him the blessing, the double ...
Matthew 11:23 And thou Capernaum This city is singled out from all the rest, and spoken to particularly, because of its peculiar advantages: which ar...
John 19:34 But one of the soldiers Whose name some pretend to say was Longinns, and so called from the spear with which he pierced Christ: with a spe...
Acts 7:23 And when he was full forty years old This Stephen had from tradition, and not from Scripture, which is silent about the age of Moses at this...
Acts 7:20 In which time Moses was born The word Moses, is differently written in the New Testament; sometimes Moses, as here, sometimes Mo-yses, as in...
Revelation 16:21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven Which must be understood not as after the fall of the cities, and the flight of th...
Luke 17:27 They did eat, they drank That is, the inhabitants of the old world ate and drank, not merely in a common way, with moderation, and for the ...
Acts 7:21 And when he was cast out Into the river, or by the river, as some copies read; the Syriac version adds, by his own people; by his father and...
Revelation 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said By whom is meant, either God the Father, who is often represented in this book as sitting on the ...
Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory Or, for ever {g}. This is to be understood, not of a spiritual death, which is swallowed up in convers...
James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law Or the greatest part of it, excepting only in one point, as follows: Adam, in a state of innocence, ...
Isaiah 10:28 He is come to Aiath In this and the following verses is prophetically described the expedition of Sennacherib to Jerusalem, when he eithe...
Matthew 12:39 But he answered and said unto them Not to the Pharisees, who were unworthy of an answer from him; having, in such an imperious manner, a...
Psalms 68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt The Vulgate Latin and all the Oriental versions render it ambassadors. This verse is a prophecy of the co...