PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
Gnomon of the New Testament — Volume 4
Bengel, Johann Albrecht, 1687-1752 · 208,940 words · 469 reading sections
464 Hebrews Xi. 27~31.
called the reproach of Egypt, where circumcision was unknown. Josh. v. 9 : and yet Moses did not for that reason desert the people. — aT£/3Xs<7rs) lie looked far forward. — TJJV {MffdaKodoffiav, to the recompence of reward) which follows the reproach of Christy is more magnificent than the treasures of Egypt, and …
395 wordsSECTION 422Hebrews Xi. 32, 33. 455
32. TLspi, concerning) luva&poiff^bg and a remarkable congeries,1 first Subjects, then Predicates. — Tsdsuv, x.r.x.) The order of time is Baraky Gideon, Jephthah, Samson, Samuel, David, the prophets ; and the reason of the change may be gathered from the note on the following verse. The Greek orthography is the sam…
724 wordsSECTION 423Hebrews Xi. 35. 457
they were, beaten with clubs. Hesychius : srv^a^iff <rav, sffpatpiffdqffav. The Vulgate, they were distended (distenti sunt) : for as in a drum the parchment or skin is distended, so in this kind of punishment the bodies were distended, that they 1. Tt&tuv . . Trotpt/xjSo'h.oig 'iyJhiva,v 2. TSctpxx, . • iiytvJi@-…
525 wordsSECTION 424458 Hebrews Xi. 36—38.
36. 'E^cra/y/x/wi' xai /fcatfr/ywv) The same words occur, 2 Mace. vii. 7, 1. — neTpav eXapov, had trial) This phrase increases the praise of constancy. The bitterness of experience showed many their weakness, who thought themselves strong. The same form of expression occurs at Deut. xxviii. 56. The delicate and re…
413 wordsSECTION 425Hebrews Xi. 39, 40. 459
The saints, although few and wretched, are of more value than all the world besides. So Prov. viii. 11, ™ ri/uov ovx afyov a-jrqe hnv, no precious thing is to be compared with it (wisdom). The clause is construed with they went about ; and yet it is in this passage in particular that it is put, on account of the an…
423 wordsSECTION 426Chapter Xii.
1. Titpr/teifAzvov) properly, lying around. The Greeks often use the verb, xsfyai, and its compounds, as presently at ver. 2, and in various senses ; wherefore the word, lie, here, must not be too closely pressed. But the preposition, mpl, very emphatically implies a cloud almost surrounding us, pressing close upon…
376 wordsSECTION 427Hebrews Xii. 2, 3. 461
2. ' Apopuvreg) aero denotes afar, as in a-rs/SXg'Tre, ch. xi. 26. He, says the apostle, sits at the right hand of the throne of GOD. — stg rbv r^c, vitfrsuc ap^yov xal rsXtiuTqv, to the prince and finisher of our faith) By this appellation Jesus is distinguished from all those who are enumerated in ch. xi. He Hims…
461 wordsSECTION 428462 Hebrews Xii. 4, 5.
ver. 1. Sin itself, by which others are led away and we are tempted, assails us ; not sin, but sinners, contradicted Christ. — avnXoyiav) LXX. dmXoy/a for JV1O, Ps. Ixxx. 7 : for 3*1, often. Contradiction involves striving against, John xix. 12 ; Acts xxviii. 19, and mostly denotes the natural disposition of infide…
453 wordsSECTION 429Hebrews Xii. 6-9. 463
DND, Is. viii. 6), i.e. do not despise with contumacious mind. Tc-roray^, subjection, is enjoined, ver. 9, in respect of chastening or discipline (natfaiac), which is of a gentler character. — ^ds sxXvov) fpn tal (comp. pp, Is. vii. 16), do not /lee back with a faint or wtfaA: mind. ' TCTO/AOVJ}, patience, ver. 7, …
422 wordsSECTION 430404 Hebrews Xii. 10.
to the Father of spirits. Generation by men is carnal ; by GOD, is spiritual. Here the propagation of the soul by parents is not denied, even as by mentioning spirits it is not denied that our fleshy i.e. our nature, is formed by GOD. — we had, we endured with equanimity, in early life. — xai fjLsQa) The fruit of …
725 wordsSECTION 43140G Hebrews Xii. 13-15.
12. Aii, wherefore) The exhortation is resumed from ver. 1. — r«£ rtapsi/Asvag %$/pag xat rot, vapaX&vfAiva, yovara, avopduffars) Is. XXXV. 3, LXX., /V^uffarg ^sTpec aveij&evai xa} yovara vapaXg'h.v/Aeva. The same also at Deut. xxxii. 36, itte yap avrovg, x.r.X. So Sir. xxv. 25. This exhortation has three parts, as…
565 wordsSECTION 432Hebrews Xii. 16, 17. 4<J7
of the study of peace. The apostle did not write ev %oX^ as the transposition of the viKpiag \j^tfi vtxpiag, instead of pity — ev — T/x/>/a in Deut.] shows. In the Hebrew, the man who thinks very wickedly is himself called cn^? a root, which also agrees with the context of the apostle. Sweet peace is utterly destro…
435 wordsSECTION 4334G8 Hebrews Xii. 18.
rb psravotTv, or even ^srdvoia, means repentance, by which a man changes any opinion, whatever it be, — in short, a change of mind: whereas in the New Testament it always implies that by which the sinner entirely repents. Nor is it said, that no repentance was in the power of Esau ; who, although he no doubt gave u…
441 wordsSECTION 434Hebrews Xii. 19, 20. 4G9
26. The mountain was touched at that one time; but GOD'S eternal habitation is described in ver. 22. — opsi, to the mount) The name of Sinai is elegantly passed over in silence, whereas Sion is mentioned. — xixov/curqj irvpl9 to the fire which burned) [But Engl. Vers., that burned with fire\. — xa/ yvtyy xat <rxoVw…
437 wordsSECTION 435470 Hebrews Xii. 21, 22.
notes. It may be called a Semiduplex Oratio,1 of which there are many examples in the Or do tempor., p. 83, 88, 213 [Ed. ii. p. 73, 77, 187, 188]. The transcriber, not at all ancient, who added from the LXX. % /3oX/<5/ xararo^evQ/iasrai,2 did not consider that with equal justice he might have added from the LXX., …
388 wordsSECTION 436Hebrews Xii. 22. 471
III. Blackness or mist : Ten thousands (an innumer able company) of angels and of the first-born. IV. Darkness : GOD, the Judge of all. V. Tempest : The spirits of just men made perfect. VI. The sound of a trumpet : Jesus, the Mediator of the New Testament VII. The voice of words : The blood of sprinkling speak…
385 wordsSECTION 437472 Hebrews Xii. 23.
[comprehending ten thousands of angels and of the first-born. — V. g.] For it is a Chiasmus : 1. Zion. 2. The city of God. 3. God the Judge. 4. Jesus the Mediator. The first and fourth, the second and third agree. — 'l^>o-j<raX^ l<rot^ai//w, the heavenly Jerusalem) Rev. xxi. 2. — Muptdt/v, ten thousands) These are…
438 wordsSECTION 438Hebrews Xii. 23. 473
ii. 1. Hence it is plain, that it does not follow on this account that they themselves are not in heaven, because they are written in heaven. They are, however, also written [as well as being actually in heaven], that their names may be at some future period publicly read over : Rev. xx. 12, xxi. 27. The antithesis…
454 wordsSECTION 439474 Hebrews Xii. 24.
him, lie makes himself one who is yet far from the goal : comp. Heb. iii. 14, note. 24. Aia67ixr,$ v'sag, of the new covenant) It is elsewhere called xa/vjj, vsa here: vtoc denotes the newness of that which is native or born, or even that which is living: comp. ch. viii. 13, note,1 and ch. x. 20 ; Is. xliii. 19. —…
450 wordsSECTION 440Hebrews Xii. 24. 475
blood and the death of Christ are concomitant: the one is not the cause of the other. He truly laid down His blood and His life ; but not for natural causes, on account of which ordinarily they die, who perish by a violent death. This arises from the sur passing excellence of the Subject. § 2. The state of the she…
391 wordsSECTION 441476 Hebrews Xii. 24.
sanctuary was His Ascension into heaven ; and indeed, at the death of Christ, the veil of the earthly temple was rent asunder, and then the true sanctuary, heaven, was opened ; but the en trance itself was made by ascending into heaven. The resurrec tion took place on the third day after His death ; His ascension, …
448 wordsSECTION 442Hebrews Xii. 24. 477
was shed, but by the power and efficacy of the blood shed for us/* The apostle does not say, the power and efficacy of the blood, but Christ's own (proper) blood (ch. ix. 12), by which an entrance was made into the sanctuary : nor does he call it MATERIAL blood, but the blood of Him, who through the eternal Spirit …
446 wordsSECTION 443-178 Hebrews Xii. 24.
Theol. Zach., p. 51, etc., says on Zech. ix. 11 : "The blood is considered under that aspect of profusion and effusion, but not as it is in its natural state and within its ordinary vessels. 1. Because the manner (nature) of the type requires this : for the blood, under the Old Testament or Covenant, was considered…
454 wordsSECTION 444Hebrews Xii. 24. 479
although it be in the body, is less felt and seen than the flesh and bones. There are other indications given of the blood being separate from the body. The sacred writings present the body and blood under the aspect of things divided, not only in the sufferings and death of our Lord, but also in the supper insti …
462 wordsSECTION 445480 Hebrews Xii. 24.
passage to a glorious life, had something forthwith suited to a glorious life. Comp. 1 Tim. iii. 16, note. Hence the annuncia tion (" showing forth") of the Lord's death comprises His whole history, even that of His burial and resurrection (with which latter the burial is closely connected, 1 Cor. xv. 4), that of H…
424 wordsSECTION 446Hebrews Xii. 24. 481
fenders of which dogma, the Schoolmen, the excuse of concomi- tancy was convenient. The restoration of the blood was not universally maintained even in the age of Gerson, as is evident from his sermons on the day of the Lord's circumcision, and from the Josephini, dist. 8. After the Reformation many ad mitted and …
407 wordsSECTION 447482 Hebrews Xii. 24.
in heaven ? Matt. xxii. 29 (and for this reason the reader should by the way, but seriously, be reminded, that blood newly pro duced in the place of that which was shed, was never even dreamt of being ascribed by us to the risen Redeemer) : His glorified life does not require the circulation of the blood. The whol…
445 wordsSECTION 448Hebrews Xii. 24. 483
it is the very blood shed in the time of His passion. We must not enter here into scholastic disputes, truly scholastic and trifling, about the remains of Christ's blood, and its being taken back, concerning which Baron, should be consulted, etc." Hodos. p. 1202. At the death of Christ the blood was drawn out of t…
412 wordsSECTION 449484 Hebrews Xii. 24.
truth," pp. 20, 21. I confess, I find this field but little culti vated, and on such a subject few in general are brought to stop and direct their attention to its consideration. But he who will not straightway shrink from that which seems at first a paradox (something contrary to what would be thought), will soon …
414 wordsSECTION 450Hebrews Xii. 24. 485
namely, I. Deliverance from the guilt of sin ; II. The gift of the new powers of life, which are subsequently exerted (put themselves forth into exercise) in good works. The former is called justification by the blood of Jesus Christ : and the latter is obtained by the man who eats the flesh of Christ, and drinks …
407 wordsSECTION 451486 Hebrews Xii. 24.
ling. But Esaias prophesied, Hi. 15, So shall He (Christ, the great Minister of Jehovah) sprinkle many nations ; the kings shall shut their mouths at Him, etc. ; where we once for all see who He is that sprinkles, and who they are that are sprinkled ; in what way that sprinkling may be the consequence of His Suffe…
401 wordsSECTION 452Hebrews Xii. 24. 487
the true vine : where the metaphor however remains, and that too in the predicate. In that sentence, My flesh is truly meat, the word truly does not affect the predicate, but the copula is ; so that the fact may be established (asserted) in opposition to the contradiction. From the beginning and at the end of the …
436 wordsSECTION 453488 Hebrews Xii. 24.
Otherwise many are forced into an eager and violent activity, so that they think it necessary to wring from themselves similar experiences and sensations ; and in the case of endeavours of this kind, nature is worn out, so as at length to render itself tranquil by that which itself accomplishes, either unconsciousl…
419 wordsSECTION 454Hebrews Xii. 25. 489
us, and from heaven to us, overcomes this violent cry of the blood concealed by Cain. Comp. xpefrrcvu, better things, ch. vi. 9. Now let us take a general survey of the persons, places, and things, to which Christians have come. There is A. Mount Zion, B. And the city of the living GOD, the heavenly Jerusalem. …
350 wordsSECTION 455490 Hebrews Xii. 26.
The same word, which is heard in the gospel from heaven, will shake heaven and earth. The blood speaks to God, ver. 24 ; but in ver. 25 there is a speaking, which is made to us : XaXouvr/, ver. 24, is neuter, agreeing with a/^a ; XaXoDvra is masculine. The apostle returns to that with which he set out, ch. i. 1. — …
418 wordsSECTION 456Hebrews Xii. 27. 491
ell. ii. 3. — sri aval* eyh asiffu ov f^ovov T^V yrp, a\\a %ai rov ovpavov, yet once more I will shake not only the earthy but also heaven) "y\ E^jnn ^KI son DVD nnx my, LXX, 'in dva%, K.T.X., and ver. 21, lyw tfs/«, K.T.X., yet once I will shake the heaven and the earth and the sea and the dry land, etc. ; and ver…
473 wordsSECTION 457492 Hebrews Xii. 28, 29.
remain. For he says peivy, not /&i«j. The imperfect depends on the preterite ffeiroiq/AevuV) made. Msvu, I remain, is often said of a thing which is left remaining (surviving) when others pass away ; and hence also povog comes from p'tw ; 1 Cor. xiii. 13. — ra w ffa\ev6fj,sva, the things which are not shaken) the c…
392 wordsSECTION 458Chapter Xiii.
1. *H <pi\adeX<pia, brotherly love) The parts of this virtue are unfolded in the sequel. Paul uses the same word elsewhere. — psverc*}) continue, although old things have passed away : it does ' abide' or continue (the word of Paul) in itself (as far as concerns itself) : 1 Cor. xiii. 8, 13 : let it also continue w…
351 wordsSECTION 459494 Hebrews Xiii. 5.
worthily to use the good which it confers : comp. 1 Thess. iv. 4. — ya/Aos) marriage. — iv vaci) in all. There is obviously greater dan ger of fornication than of adultery ; comp. 1 Cor. vii. 2, sxaarog, every one [" To avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife"] ; and all ought to value marriage highly, s…
450 wordsSECTION 460Hebrews Xiii. 6-8. 495
7707- forsake thee : so also ver. 8 ; Josh. i. 5, / ivill not forsake thee nor overlook (wnf6»l*pou) tnee > 1 Chron. xxviii. 20, He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. It is therefore like a Divine adage. He will neither withdraw His assistance nor His pre sence. 6. Kvpiog spot, K.T.X.) So the LXX., Ps. cxviii. 6…
424 wordsSECTION 461406 Hebrews Xiii. 9.
the force of a proverb, yesterday, yesterday and the day before, yesterday and to-day, yesterday and to-morrow : Is. xxx. 33 ; Deut. iv. 42 ; 2 Sam. xv. 20 ; Sir. xxxviii. 23 ; and in this general sense of the apostle, yesterday and to-day resemble a pro verb, so as to denote any past and present time, which was d…
437 wordsSECTION 462Hebrews Xiii. 10, 11. 497
responds, not with meats; but the modal expression, good) is added from the feeling of the apostle, to give a point to the ad monition. So Paul, Kom. vi. 17, note. KaXix, good, beautiful (becoming), salutary: also pleasant, without strange variety; and profitable. The antithesis, have not profited. — x,dpin, with …
443 wordsSECTION 463498 Hebrews Xiii. 12-15.
of the testimony, to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten; it shall be burnt in the fire. — £wwv, of the animals) ch. ix. 12, 13. — afya' <tu,uara, blood; bodies) which were the shadows of the blood and of the body of Christ. — g'gw rfa a-aps^/SoX^) without the camp, in which were the tabernacle, and …
443 wordsSECTION 464Hebrews Xiii. 16, 17, 499
Altar is mentioned, ver. 10; now the sacrifices are enumerated : of praise here, of well-doing, ver. 16. — afae&us, of praise) for the salvation made sure. — diaxuvrbc, continually) A continual sacri fice. Nothing of the Mass. Forget not, which follows, ver. 1 6, corresponds to this word, continually. — xapvbv ^nXs…
436 wordsSECTION 465500 Hebrews Xiii. 18-20.
hearers. — xai pq, and not) He is not a good minister who does not either rejoice or grieve, or do both. — (trsvdfyvres, witli grief) The groans of other creatures are heard ; how much more of pastors?— dXuomXef, unprofitable} Sorrow, opposed to joy, from which griefs (groans, implied in grevdfyvres) are derived, g…
438 wordsSECTION 466Hebrews Xiii. 21-24. 501
6 avayayuv, who brought again; comp. ch. ii. 9, dia, for, on account of; likewise John x. 17, 18 ; Phil. ii. 9. — a/Wou, ever lasting) An august epithet. This eternity of the covenant infers the necessity of a resurrection : Acts xiii. 34, note, from Isaiah. 21. Kuraprfaai, fit or join you perfectly together) 1 Cor…
423 wordsSECTION 467End Of Vol. Iv
17. — V. g.] The writings of the apostles were read in the public assembly, as those of the prophets formerly were : how much more ought it so to be left free to every individual to read them in private, as much as is requisite, so that it should not be granted only by a dispensation from the Pope ! For it is more …
655 wordsSECTION 468Hengstenberg'S Christology Of The Old Testament.
DIODATI DE CHRISTO GRAECE LOQUENTE, etc., etc. Edited by 0. Y. DOBBIN, Trin. Coll. Dublin. Foolscap Svo, cloth, 5s. London : J. GLADDING, City Road. THE First Series consists of 34 vols. 8vo, price L.8, 18s. 6d. (which may be paid by Instalments, if more convenient than in one sum). Of the Second Series 18 vols. a…
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