Justin Edwards' Family Bible NT (1851)
John 16:8
Reprove; convince.
Reprove; convince.
Verse John 16:8. _HE WILL REPROVE_] ελεγξει, He will _demonstrate_ these matters so _clearly_ as to leave no doubt on the minds of those who are simple of heart; and so fully as to confound and shut t...
HE WILL REPROVE - The word translated “reprove” means commonly to demonstrate by argument, to prove, to persuade anyone to do a thing by presenting reasons. It hence means also to convince of anything...
CHAPTER 16 1. Persecutions Predicted. (John 16:1 .) 2. The Comforter and His Demonstration. (John 16:7 .) 3. Sorrow and joy. (John 16:16 .) 4. The Father Himself Loveth You. ...
JOHN 16. There is no break between chs. 15 and 16. Jesus has told them beforehand, so that His death and their suffering may not daunt their faith, as the Baptist was offended by the course of the min...
WILL REPROVE THE WORLD OF SIN, OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND OF JUDGMENT. The Revision more correctly renders, "Will convict the world of sin." There are three points concerning which the world would be convi...
WARNING AND CHALLENGE (John 16:1-4)...
"I did not tell you these things at the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going away to him who sent me, and none of you asks me: 'Where are you going?' But grief has filled your hearts...
AND, &c. These four verses exhibit the Figure of speech _Prosapodosis,_ App-6. WHEN HE IS COME. having come. HE. Greek. _ekeinos._ See John 14:26. REPROVE. convict, i.e. bring in guilty. Greek. _ele...
The threefold office of the Advocate towards those who do not believe but may yet be won over. _And_He when He is come will convict _the world_ CONCERNING _sin, and_ CONCERNING _righteousness, and_ CO...
The threefold office of the Advocate towards those who do not believe, but may yet be won over. AND HE, WHEN HE IS COME, WILL CONVICT _the world_ CONCERNING _sin, and_ CONCERNING _righteousness, and_...
THE WORLD AND THE PARACLETE...
Ver 5. But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asks me, Where do you go? 6. But because I have said these things to you sorrow has filled your heart. 7. Nevertheless I tell you the tr...
ΈΛΘΏΝ _aor. act. part. от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ, _см._ John 16:2. _Aor._ описывает предшествующее действие, необходимое для завершения действия основного гл. Таким образом, это антецедент основного гл., хотя прихо...
DISCOURSE: 1702 OFFICES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT John 16:8. _And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they believe not on me; of righteo...
AND WHEN HE IS COME, HE WILL REPROVE— _He will convince,_ &c. "And he, coming from on high, by virtue of my death, and in consequence of my resurrection and exaltation, shall carry on my cause in this...
TEACHING WHICH IS DARK AND FOREBODING _Text: John 16:1-11_ 1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be caused to stumble. 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hou...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 16:1-11 The following is an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— The chapter division between John 15 and 16 is scarcely a happy one, though perha...
And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: AND WHEN HE IS COME, HE WILL REPROVE THE WORLD OF SIN, AND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND OF JUDGMENT. The wo...
12 As the Lord had explained in His kingdom proclamation, the whole law was included in the one word, love. Love to God and love to man is far more than all the precepts of the law. So, in His final c...
16:8 demonstration (d-7) _ Elenko_ . 'convince' supposes effect in the person convinced; 'convict' would not do for righteousness or judgment. I have said 'bring demonstration,' though it suggests per...
REPROVE] RV 'convict.' The Gk. word, which also occurs John 3:20; John 8:9; (AV) John 8:46, means to prove a person in the wrong, hence to convict. The Holy Ghost will 'convince' or 'convict' the worl...
The work of the Comforter in the world and in the Church. 7. It was better for them that Christ's personal presence should be withdrawn, in order that His spiritual presence might be nearer to them th...
THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION OF CHRIST WILL PROVE THE DISCIPLES' COMFORT IN TIME OF PERSECUTION 1-6. The Persecution of the Apostles predicted. This section repeats many of the ideas of the previous...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 16 JESUS CONTINUES TO TEACH ABOUT THE *HOLY SPIRIT 16:1-15 V1 ‘I have told all this to you so that these troubles will...
AND WHEN HE IS COME, HE WILL REPROVE THE WORLD. — Better, as in margin, _convince the world._ (Comp. John 3:20; John 8:46.) The only other passages where it occurs in the Gospels are in Matthew 18:15,...
to John 16:11. _The conquest of the world by the Spirit_....
καὶ ἐλθὼν ἐκεῖνος … “and when He” (with some emphasis, “that person”) “has come, He will reprove,” or as in R.V [89], “convict the world” “Reprove,” reprobare, to rebut or refute, as in Henry VI., iii...
THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT John 16:1-11 We gain by our losses. It was expedient for the disciples that the Lord should go, because the Spirit's presence was contingent upon His absence. The text needed t...
Throughout these discourses our Lord was preparing His disciples for all that He saw coming to them. He told them that they would have sorrow resulting from their suffering. Because of this, it was ne...
(3) And when he is come, he will (a) reprove the (b) world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: (3) The Spirit of God works so mightily by the preaching of the word that he forces the world...
He will convince [2], or convict the world. Others translate, he will reprove the world of sin, &c. These words have occasioned a great many expositions. I here follow St. Cyril, that the Holy Ghost w...
CHAPTER 23 THE VALEDICTORY SERMON John 14-16. Now that the Passover meal has been enjoyed, and that celebrated Mosaic institution totally eclipsed by bloody Calvary, normally verified and abolished f...
3. 16:5-15. Jesus now describes _the victory_ which the disciples will gain over the world which has risen up against Him. He first connects with His departure the coming of the divine _agent_ (alread...
“ _And when he shall have come, he will convince the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment;_ 9, _of sin, because they believe not on me;_ 10, _of righteousness, because I go to my Father and...
And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgement; (9) Of sin, because they believe not on me; (10) Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see...
In John 15:1-27 our Lord substitutes Himself for Israel, as the plant of God, responsible to bear fruit for Him on earth (not merely for man, as such, openly sinful and lost). He takes the place of th...
_THE REPROOF OF THE COMFORTER_ ‘And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin … because they believe not on Me.’ John 16:8 How does the Comforter convict us of sin? It is written, ‘Of sin,...
_THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE WORLD_ ‘And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.’ John 16:8 We are prepared to understand how it is that our Saviour sh...
_CONVICTION OF SIN_ ‘When He is come, He will reprove (convict) the world of sin.’ John 16:8 I. THERE IS NOTHING IN THE WORLD MORE DIFFICULT THAN TO CONVICT ANY SOUL OF SIN, or to be convicted of...
_BEFORE PENTECOST_ ‘It I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you.’ John 16:7 The men who had spent three and a half years with Christ would have...
8._And when he is come. _Passing by the diversity of expositions, which we have received in consequence of the obscurity of the passage, I shall only state what appears to me to be in accordance with...
In chapter 16 a further step is taken in the revelation of this grace. The Holy Ghost is looked upon as already here below. In this chapter the Lord declares that He has set forth all His instruction...
AND WHEN HE IS COME,.... The coming of the Spirit here, chiefly designs his descent upon the apostles, at the day of "Pentecost": as the things ascribed to him, and which were then done by him, clearl...
And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Ver. 8. _And when he is come, &c._] This text had been easy, had not commentators made it so knotty. _ H...
John 16:8, etc. "And when the Comforter is come he will convince the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment." He shall convince the world of sin, as men must be convinced of their guilt, in o...
_Nevertheless, I tell you the truth_ I acquaint you with the case just as it is, and tell you the reasons of my going away, though you have not asked them. It is necessary even on your account that I...
The reproof of the world:...
AND WHEN HE IS COME, HE WILL REPROVE THE WORLD OF SIN AND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND OF JUDGMENT:...
All that the Lord spoke on that memorable night was intended for the preparation of His disciples for what would face them in view of His death, resurrection and return to the glory. There would be st...
REPROVE: Or, convince...
7-15 Christ's departure was necessary to the Comforter's coming. Sending the Spirit was to be the fruit of Christ's death, which was his going away. His bodily presence could be only in one place at...
When the Holy Spirit is come in the days of Pentecost, he, by his inward operation in men's hearts, and by his gifts bestowed upon you that are his apostles, WILL REPROVE THE WORLD. By THE WORLD here,...
Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes I, in sooth, am the Paraclete, whose mission was announced of old time by Jesus, and who was to come to "convince the world of sin and unri...
John 16:8 And G2532 come G2064 (G5631) He G1565 convict G1651 (G5692) world G2889 of G4012 sin...
“And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness and of judgment. Of sin because they believe not on me. Of righteousness because I am going to the Father and y...
THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (JOHN 16:4)....
John 16:8. AND HE, WHEN HE IS COME, WILL CONVICT THE WORLD CONCERNING SIN, AND CONCERNING RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND CONCERNING JUDGMENT. The Agent has been spoken of; we now enter upon His work, and the clim...
We have already considered the circumstances under which the two Chapter s upon which we now enter were spoken; and, if we have been correct in the view taken of them, we are not to imagine that the f...
AND HE (κα εκεινος). Emphatic demonstrative masculine pronoun.WHEN HE IS COME (ελθων). Second aorist active participle of ερχομα, "having come" or "coming."WILL CONVICT THE WORLD (ελεγξε τον κοσ...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _ SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
John 16:8 I. The first point of thought suggested here, is the ground on which the charge is founded "of sin, because they believe not on Me." II. Note the way in which the Comforter, by revealing Ch...
John 16:8 Look I. At the Holy Spirit's operations, as set forth under the New Testament. At one time He is represented as exerting influence upon the understanding. The eyes are opened; the faculty o...
John 16:1. _These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended._ The temptation is, when Christ is despised and rejected, for our hearts to begin to sink, and for our faith to fail....
John 16:1. _These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God...
John 16:1. _These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended._ Or, «made to stumble.» Christ would not have you who are his people caused to stumble by anything that happens to you...
This chapter contains some of the most precious words that the Lord Jesus uttered before he died upon the cross. John 16:1. _These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended._ Or,...
John 16:1. _These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended._ «That you should not be scandalized when you see me put to death, and when you miss my bodily presence from your mids...
John 16:1. _These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended._ That you should not be scandalized when you are put to suffering on any account that you should not dread the offence...
CONTENTS: Warning of persecutions. The promise of the Spirit and His three-fold work. Jesus talks of His death, resurrection and second coming. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, God, disciples. CONCLUS...
John 16:1. _These things have I spoken, that ye should not be offended,_ so as to stumble and shrink back from the cause in which you are engaged. Expulsion from the synagogue was to a jew next to dea...
HE WILL PROVE. New ideas are to be _proved_ to the human mind by the Spirit. "The Word and the Spirit agree. They cannot be separated, That which the Spirit does He does through the instrument of God'...
_And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment_ THE MISSION OF THE COMFORTER This is the only passage in which the Saviour has expressed the process of...
1-33 CHAPTER 16 VER. 1. _These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended._ (1.) Some think that this refers to Matt. xxvi. 31, _All ye shall be offended because of Me this night._...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ Chap. John 15:27. The Spirit does not teach historical facts, but reveals their true meaning. Hence the apostolic testimony and the testimony of the Spirit form but a...
EXPOSITION JOHN 16:1 (c) _The bitter issues of the hostility of the world_. JOHN 16:1 THESE THINGS. What things? Primarily the explanation he had given of the opposition and hatred of the world, a...
Shall we turn to John's gospel, chapter 16. Now, these words in the sixteenth chapter have to be understood with the background as Jesus has been in the upper room with His disciples. He has told them...
1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; 1 Timothy 1:13; Acts 2:22;...
Will reprove [ε λ ε γ ξ ε ι]. See on 3 20. Rev., convict. Of sin - righteousness - judgment [π ε ρ ι] Literally, concerning. Rev., in respect of. Of gives a wrong impression, viz., that He will convi...
THE HOLY SPIRIT CHAPTER John 16:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The sixteenth chapter of John contains a part of our Lord's last message before He went out to Gethsemane and on to the Cross. The disciples wer...
THE MINISTRY OF THE SPIRIT John 14:26; _John 16:7_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS Christ came to His own, and His own received Him not. The Holy Spirit came to His own, seeking to bring every possible spiritual...
He — Observe his twofold office; toward the world, John 16:8, &c; toward believers, John 16:12, &c: will convince — All of the world — Who do not obstinately resist, by your preaching and miracles, of...
In these and the following verses our Saviour acquaints his disciples with the advantages that will redound by the coming of the Comforter. First, the advantage to the world. Secondly, to the apostl...