He forsook all (katalipwn panta). This detail in Luke alone. He left his profitable business for the service of Christ. Followed him (hkolouqei autwi...
?EXPOSITION Verse 21. My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD. Whatever others may do, I will not be silent in the praise of the Lord: whatever ot...
Numbers 14:15 Now [if] thou shall kill [all] this people, as one man Suddenly, and at once, as might be done by a pestilence; and as 185,000 were smit...
But rather division (all h diamerismon). Peace at any price is not the purpose of Christ. It is a pity for family jars to come, but loyalty to Christ...
Job 40:5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer Some think this refers to what he had just now said of his vileness, he had owned that, and that wa...
FornicationSexual immorality.Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himsel...
1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I show you a mystery Or a secret, which could never have been discovered by reason, or the light of nature, and what is of...
Grieved (luphqei). Not to hurt, for in verse Acts 5 we read that he wanted (qelwn) to put him to death (apokteinai). Herod, however, shrank from so...
Letter XXX(1) Letter XXX(1) To Eusebius of Samosata. IF I were to write at length all the causes which, up to the present time, have kept me at home,...
Psalms 74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.] Formerly it was an honour to be employed in cutting down a...
Else they would not have ceased? (epei ouk an epausanto;). Ellipsis of condition after epei (since if they really did perfect) with the conclusion of...
He went his way (aphlqen). He went off and did as Jesus told him. He heralded (khrussein) or published the story till all over Decapolis men marvelle...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 11. God hath spoken once. So immutable is God that he need not speak twice, as though he had changed; so infallible, that one utteran...
Every one that drinketh (pa o pinwn). Present active articular participle with pa, parallel to the indefinite relative with the second aorist active ...
Hebrews 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many As man dies but once, Christ was offered but once, or he suffered and died but once; ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 20. I have found David my servant. David was discovered by the Lord among the sheepfolds and recognised as a man of gracious spirit,...
Psalms 148:5 Let them praise the name of the Lord Set forth the glory of the nature and perfections of God, and celebrate the praise of them; even all...
Ver. 49-53. But Aaron and his sons Those that descended from him, though of the same tribe of Levi were all priests: and they offered upon the altar...
1 Kings 22:16 And the king said unto him, how many times shall I adjure thee Not that he had as yet adjured him at all, or not till now; but he asks h...
Genesis 18:28 Peradventure there should lack five of the fifty righteous, &c.] Or there should be but forty five; for Abraham perceived, by the Lord's...