Welcome to David Guzik’s Bible Commentary In my many years of teaching verse-by-verse through the Bible, I came to prepare my teaching notes in a certain way. Through a series of unexpected events I found that what I prepared for myself as teaching notes was helpful to some others as ...
ii. “The stones listed in this verse are similar to those on the high priest’s breastplate inExodus 28:17–20. The order is different here in Ezekiel, which includes only nine of the twelve stones ofExodus 28:17–20. The LXX inserts all twelve stones fromExodus 28intoEzekiel 28:13....
i. Those who deny the deity of Jesus say this verse proves their point. They take the submission of God the Son as “proof” that He must not be equal in deity to God the Father. But the submission of Jesus to the Father doesn’t come from any inherent inferiority; instead, it come...
Because He has fulfilled His own word, and we are called to follow Him in the same way. Jesus said,If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all. (Mark 9:35) He also said,Whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. (Matthew ...
i. “Read the verse and you will see that it was that of a backslider from the visible church of God. The words, ‘If any of you,’ must refer to a professed Christian.” (Spurgeon) b.And someone turns him back: This shows us that God uses human instruments in turning sinners bac...
a.Neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you: Introducing this word with a solemn vow (as I live), God repeated the accusation from the previous verse. b.This was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: Point by point, God listed some of the sins of Sodom. The sins list...
and others) interpreted this verse strangely to “remove ammunition” from the heretics. But this is wrong. Just because someone twists a truth one way, it doesn’t mean we can twist it the other way to “compensate.” Calvin well remarks of this approach, “being hard pressed by their ...
iii. “I despise(and translations usually supplymyselfas the object not found in the Hebrew). This does not go as far as the abject self-loathing of that radical repentance that requires admitting known sins. If we are to connect it with verse 3, Job could be expressing regret at his ...
i. “It seems probable that he went first to Bethlehem, as he bade Jonathan to tell his father, verse 6, and thence returned to the field, when the occasion required; else we must charge him with a downright lie, which ought not to be imagined (without any apparent cause) concerning ...
Some think so, based on passages likeRevelation 6:9-11and1 Thessalonians 4:16. But in using the term “unclothed” in verse 4, Paul seems to see such a bodiless state as undesirable. The more desired state seems to be “clothed” with a resurrection body as in verse 2. Either the ...