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Verse by Verse Commentary. 1. On Mount Zion stood the Lamb – The chronology of this verse is not clear. Revelation 19 describes Jesus’ physical return, the second coming. But here in chapter 14, he is described as standing on Mt. Zion (note that Zachariah 14:4 says He will set foot on the Mt. of Olives.) There are many varied interpretations.
Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. “If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land” ( 2 Chronicles 7:14, ESV ). The key to understanding any verse of Scripture is context.
- Matthew Henrylink
- Matthew Poolelink
- Jamieson, Fausset & Brownlink
First, probably the most famous evangelical whole-Bible commentary is Matthew Henry’s commentary on the whole Bible. Matthew Henry was a British pastor who wrote his commentary between 1704 and 1714. He died when he’d only gotten through the Old Testament and up through Acts in the New Testament, and some friends completed it by using his notes. Ch...
But here are the other two. The first is Matthew Poole’s — P-O-O-L-E — commentary on the whole Bible, published in 1685. Its original title, typical of those old guys, is Annotations Upon the Holy Bible, Wherein the Sacred Text Is Inserted, and Various Readings Annexed, Together with Parallel Scriptures, the More Difficult Terms in Each Verse Are E...
Number three is Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, and David Brown, usually abbreviated to Jamieson, Fausset & Brown. Now, don’t let the word critical in the title — Commentary Critical— put you off. It doesn’t mean negative criticism. It means that among these three commentaries, this one would...
1. ( Acts 19:1-2) In Ephesus, Paul finds some disciples who had not yet received the Holy Spirit. And it happened, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus. And finding some disciples he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”
EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE) Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. (16) Then (or, better, therefore) said Thomas, which is called Didymus. —The second of these names is the Greek translation of the first, which is Hebrew. Both mean “twin.”.
—The first expression of thought in the pattern prayer is not the utterance of our wants and wishes, but that the Name of God—that which sums up all our thoughts of God—should be “hallowed,” be to us and all men as a consecrated name, not lightly used in trivial speech, or rash assertion, or bitterness of debate, but the object of awe and love a...
By the spiritual wickedness in heavenly places, he thinks false teachers, who endeavoured to corrupt Christianity, are meant; such as those mentioned by St. John, 1 John 2:19: They went out from us, but they were not of us, c. And he thinks the meaning may be extended to all corrupters of Christianity in all succeeding ages.
