AND IT CAME TO PASS.. Hebraism. SAYINGS. words. Greek. _logos._ See note on "saying", Mark 9:32. DEPARTED. withdrew (by sea). FROM. Greek. _apo._ INTO. Greek. _eis_. COASTS. borders. BEYOND JORDAN. Perea, east side of Jordan, from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea.... [ Continue Reading ]
PHARISEES. See App-120. TEMPTING HIM. trying Him. See note on Luke 16:18. FOR. on account of. App-104.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVE YE NOT READ... ? See App-143. AT. from. Greek. _apo._ THE BEGINNING. See note on John 8:44. MALE AND FEMALE. a male and. female. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 1:27). This settles the theory of evolution. MALE. Greek. _arsen._ App-123.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY TWAIN. This is added by the Lord to Genesis 2:24. See App-107 and App-117. THEY TWAIN. the two. FLESH. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), put for the whole person. App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT. The unity, not "those" (the persons). GOD. App-98. HATH JOINED TOGETHER, &C.. joined together, &c. The converse is true also. See note on Philippians 1:1; Philippians 1:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHY? Why then? Moses. See note on Matthew 8:4. COMMAND, &C. Not till the close of the forty years. WRITING.. bill. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 24:1). See App-117.... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE OF. in view of, or having regard to. Greek. _pros._ App-104. SUFFERED. allowed. WAS NOT SO: i.e. from the first constitution down to Moses.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. But. FOR. Greek. _epi._... [ Continue Reading ]
IF THE CASE, &C. The condition is hypothetical. See App-118. CASE. cause, as in Matthew 19:3. THE MAN. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche"_ (of Genus), App-6, for. husband. GOOD. profitable.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL MEN CANNOT. not (as in Matthew 19:4) all men can. IS. has been.... [ Continue Reading ]
BORN. See note on "begat", Matthew 1:2. MADE EUNUCHS. The verb occurs only here. OF. by. Greek. _hupo._ FOR... SAKE. Greek. _dia._ App-104.Matthew 19:2. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN'S. See App-114. HEAVEN'S. the heavens'. Plural as in Matthew 19:14. Not Singular as in Matthew 19:21. TO RECEIVE... LET... [ Continue Reading ]
LITTLE CHILDREN. young children. Greek plural of _paidion_. App-108. Compare Mark 10:13.Luke 18:16; Luke 18:17. SHOULD PUT. should lay, as in Matthew 19:15. AND PRAY. and should pray. Greek. _proseuchomai._ App-134. REBUKED. reprimanded.... [ Continue Reading ]
FORBID. hinder. OF SUCH IS: or, to such belongeth (in Eng. idiom): so Tyndale.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. GOOD. All the texts omit. The accounts here(verses: Matthew 19:16; Mark 10:17, and Luke 18:18) are partly identical and partly complementary. MASTER. Teacher. Greek. _Didaskalos._ See App-98. Matthew 19:1. ETERNAL LIFE. life age-abiding. Greek. _zue ai... [ Continue Reading ]
WHY... ? Note the several questions. See the Structure above. WILT ENTER. desirest (App-102.) to enter. LIFE. Greek. _zoe._ App-170. COMMANDMENTS. All of them (Matthew 5:19; James 2:10; James 2:11.Deuteronomy 27:26 (Septuagint) Galatians 1:3; Galatians 1:10).... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH? The Lord, in reply, recites five (the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and fifth), but omits the tenth in order to convict him out of his own mouth when he says he has kept "all these". See App-117. JESUS. And Jesus. THOU SHALT DO, &C. Quoted from Exodus 20:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF. Quoted from Leviticus 19:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THESE. Yes, but not the tenth. Hence the Lord's answer "go and sell", which brought conviction.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILT BE. art willing to be. App-102. THAT THOU HAST. thy property or possession. Same word (but not the same form) as "is" in Philippians 1:3; Philippians 1:20. exists as. possession. POOR. App-127. HEAVEN. Sing; not plural, as in verses: Matthew 19:12; Matthew 19:14, i.e. not on earth. See notes... [ Continue Reading ]
SORROWFUL. grieving GREAT. many.... [ Continue Reading ]
VERILY. See note on Matthew 5:18. HARDLY. with difficulty.... [ Continue Reading ]
CAMEL. With its burden. Not. cable, as some suggest. GO. pass, THROUGH. Greek. _dia._ App-104.Matthew 19:1. THE EYE. Greek. _trupema._ Occurs only here. THE EYE OF. NEEDLE.. small door fixed in. gate and opened after dark. To pass through, the camel must be unloaded. Hence the difficulty of the... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN. it followeth.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHELD. Greek. _emblepo._ App-133. Not the same as verses: in, 27. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. For eternal life is now "the gift of God" (compare Romans 6:23). See also Genesis 18:14.Job 42:2 (marg). Zechariah 8:6 (Septuagint) Luke 1:37.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE. The answer to Peter's "we", Matthew 19:27. THE REGENERATION. the making of all things new. The restoration of Acts 3:21. the "when" of the next clause. In Mark 10:30 we have the synonymous expression "the coming age": thus referring to the future time of reward, and not to the then present time... [ Continue Reading ]
OR. Note the Figure of speech _Paradiastole._ App-6. EVERLASTING. Greek. _aionios._ See App-151. LIFE. Greek. _zoe._ App-170.... [ Continue Reading ]
MANY. Connected with "last" as well as "first". Omit the italics "that are", and connect this verse with Matthew 20:1 as evidenced by the word "For" (Matthew 20:1) and "So"in Matthew 19:16.... [ Continue Reading ]