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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Matthew 16:22

Matthew 16:22. Then Peter took him. Either laid hold on Him to interrupt Him, or took Him aside. The explanation, ‘took by the hand,' for friendly entreaty, is unwarranted.

And began to rebuke him. He did not proceed far in this chiding.

Be it far from thee, Lord, lit, ‘propitious to thee,' equivalent either to, God be favorable to thee, or spare thyself.

This shall never be to thee. An over-confident declaration, betraying pride as well as opposition to the purpose of God (‘must go,' Matthew 16:21) revealed by our Lord. Peter was bold as confessor and as opposer, was impulsive, perhaps vain and ambitious. Moreover Satan is most busy in seducing us when we have been most highly exalted and favored by Christ.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Matthew 16:22. _THEN PETER TOOK HIM_] προσλαβομενος - _took him_ _up _- suddenly interrupted him, as it were calling him to order - see _Wakefield_. Some versions give προσλαβομενος the sense o...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. THE GREAT ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE REJECTED KING CONCERNING HIMSELF. CHAPTER 16 1. Pharisees and Sadducees Asking a Sign. (Matthew 16:1 .) 2. Instructions Concerning the Leaven. (Matthew 16:5 .) 3. P...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Be it far from thee, Lord_ Literally, (1) "_may God pity thee_," i. e. "_give thee a better fate_," or (2) "_pity thyself_....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Catena Aurea Commentary

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Bible Study New Testament

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Gospels Compared

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 16:20. TELL NO MAN.—Jesus had not, even to His Apostles, said that He was the Christ, but He left it that they might discover it themselves from the testimony of facts. It was...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 22:13; Acts 21:11; John 13:6; Matthew 16:16; Matthew 16:17;

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Took [π ρ ο σ λ α β ο μ ε ν ο ς]. Not, took him by the hand, but took him apart to speak with him privately. Meyer renders, correctly, after he had taken him to himself. "As if," says Bengel, "by a ri...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    No doubt Peter spake all this out of. sincere intention, and with. singular affection towards our Saviour; but pious intentions and good affections will not justify unwarrantable actions. From this c...

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