Psalms 135:3 Praise ye the Lord, for the Lord [is] good Essentially and communicatively; he is good, and he does good, in a providential way, to all m...
1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing In the affair of justification before God, and acceptance with him; it cannot make any man righteous in the...
Book X.Book X.In which there is shown to be another trinity in the mind of man, and one that appears much more evidently, viz. In his memory, understa...
It were well for him (lusitelei autwi). An old word, but only here in the N.T., from lusitelh and this from luw, to pay, and ta telh, the taxes. So i...
Luke 13:9 And if it bear fruit, well If hereby barren professors, as the Jews, become fruitful, it is well, a good thing is done; it is well for thems...
Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked [is] abomination That is, to the Lord, as in ( Proverbs 15:8 ) ; and as it is here added in the Septuagint ...
James 3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above If it must be called wisdom, as it ought not; an envious, quarrelsome, and contentious spirit, does n...
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth The Syriac version introduces this petition, with the appellation (aba) , Abba, Father: and the sanctificat...
Ecclesiastes 2:22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart? &c.] What profit has he by it, when there is so much vexation...
On the Subject of the Soul. On the Subject of the Soul.(1) You have instructed us, most excellent Tatian,(2) to forward for your use a discourse upon ...
Isaiah 12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water These words are either an exhortation to others, as the Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, d...
Leviticus 19:7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day Or in eating be eaten F11 any of it be eaten, the least bit of it: it [is] abominable; it i...
Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honourable in all Some read these words as an exhortation, let it be so; others as an assertion, it is so. Marriage is the un...
Proverbs 16:16 How much better [is it] to get wisdom than gold? &c.] To obtain and possess Christ, the fountain of wisdom, in whom are hid all the tre...
Matthew 13:20 But he that receiveth the seed into stony places Such a hearer, who is like to the stony ground on which the seed fell, is one that is n...
Leviticus 13:22 And if it spread much abroad in the skin Upon viewing it on the seventh day, though it is not expressed, the swelling or bright spot; ...
Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell [it] not Evangelical truth, the word of truth, the Gospel of salvation, which comes from the God of truth; has ...
Ezekiel 39:8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God That is, the salvation of his people, and the destruction of their enemies; the pr...
Proverbs 15:24 The way of life [is] above to the wise Of the way of life; (See Gill on Proverbs 10:17); this is said to be above, or it tends to [what...
Hebrews 7:18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment Not the moral law; though what is here said of the commandment may be applied to th...