There am I (ekei eimi). This blessed promise implies that those gathered together are really disciples with the spirit of Christ as well as in his na...
Because ye are sons (oti este uioi). This is the reason for sending forth the Son ( Ephesians 4:4 and here). We were sons in God's elective purpose ...
If then thou countest me a partner (ei oun me ecei koinwnon). As I assume that you do, condition of the first class. Receive him as myself (proslabou...
Philemon 1:21 Having confidence in thy obedience In his obedience of faith to Christ, and his Gospel; he having been made willing in the day of his po...
Not in the flesh (ouk en sarki). Not sold under sin ( Galatians 7:14 ) any more. But in the spirit (alla en pneumati). Probably, in the Holy Spirit. ...
Searching (eraunwnte). Present active participle of eraunaw, late form for older ereunaw (both in the papyri), uncompounded verb ( John 7:52 ), the c...
Galatians 5:8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.] That is, the opinion they were persuaded to believe; and which the Syriac version r...
Isaiah 40:14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him This is the same as before, only repeated in other words, the more strongly to deny tha...
Now the Lord is the Spirit (o de Kurio to pneuma estin). Some, like E. F. Scott (The Spirit in the N.T.), take Kurio here to be Christ and interpret ...
Luke 24:27 And beginning at Moses The writings of Moses, the book of Genesis particularly, ( Genesis 3:15 ) which is the first prophecy of him, and sp...
Matthew 12:36 But I say unto you This form of speaking is used, the more strongly to asseverate the truth of what is after said; and the rather, becau...
Overview - 1?Peter 1 1?He blesses God for his manifold spiritual graces; 10?shewing that the salvation in Christ is no news, but a thing prophesied of...
Overview - Romans 8 1?They that are in Christ, are free from condemnation. 5?What harm comes of the flesh; 13?and what good of the Spirit. 19?The glo...
Proverbs 3:26 For the Lord shall be thy confidence The object of it, in whom thou shall put thy confidence, and be safe and secure from all fear and d...
For ye are yet carnal (eti gar sarkikoi este). Sarkiko, unlike sarkino, like iko formations, means adapted to, fitted for the flesh (sarx), one who l...
To whom (oi). Dative plural of the relative pronoun. To the prophets who were seeking to understand. Bigg observes that the connexion between study a...
NOTE P. The Spirit Of Christ And His Love (Chap. 29). 'Know then that I am love incarnate; I have clothed myself with flesh that I might reign in y...
Overview - John 20 1?Mary comes to the sepulchre; 3?so do Peter and John, ignorant of the resurrection. 11?Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene, 19?and to...
Proverbs 22:1 A [good] name [is] rather to be chosen than great riches The word good is not in the text, but is rightly supplied, as it is by the Targ...