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Byword - ) A common
saying; a proverb; a
saying that has a general currency. ) The object of a contemptuous
saying
Immer -
saying; speaking; a lamb
Illustration - See Imagery ; Parables ; Proverb; Wise
saying
Double-Tongued - 1: δίλογος (Strong's #1351 — Verb — dilogos — dil'-og-os ) primarily means "saying the same thing twice, or given to repetition" (dis, "twice," logos, "a word, or speech"); hence, "saying a thing to one person and giving a different view of it to another, double-tongued,"
1 Timothy 3:8
Jocosity - ) A jocose act or
saying; jocoseness
Saying - 1: λόγος (Strong's #3056 — Noun Masculine — logos — log'-os ) "a word," as embodying a conception or idea, denotes among its various meanings, "a
saying, statement or declaration," uttered (a) by God; RV, "word" or "words" (AV, "saying"), e. ,
Mark 8:32 ; 9:10 ; 10:22 ;
Luke 9:28 ;
John 6:60 ; 21:23 ; the RV appropriately substitutes "word" or "words" for AV, "saying" or "sayings," especially in John's Gospel e. ...
2: ῥῆμα (Strong's #4487 — Noun Neuter — rhema — hray'-mah ) "that which is said, a word," is rendered "saying" or "sayings" in
Mark 9:32 ;
Luke 1:65 ; 2:17,50,51 ; 7:1 ; 9:45 (twice); 18:34. ...
Note: In
Acts 14:18 , "with these
sayings" is, lit. , "saying (lego) these things. " For lalia, "saying,"
John 4:42 , AV, see SPEECH , No
Moralism - ) A maxim or
saying embodying a moral truth
Annueler - ) A priest employed in
saying annuals, or anniversary Masses
Riddle - A dark or hidden
saying, as that which Samson put forth respecting the carcase of the lion,
Judges 14:12-19 ; and that of Ezekiel concerning the great eagle, but this is also called a 'parable. The word is chidah, and is also translated 'dark
saying, sentence, speech,' 'hard question,' and once 'proverb
Facetiae - ) Witty or humorous writings or
saying; witticisms; merry conceits
Bromidiom - ) A conventional comment or
saying, such as those characteristic of bromides
Adage - ) An old
saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb
Diverb - ) A
saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb
e-la - ) Originally, the highest note in the scale of Guido; hence, proverbially, any extravagant
saying
Witticism - ) A witty
saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit
Pooh-Pooh - ) To make light of; to treat with derision or contempt, as if by
saying pooh! pooh!...
Self-Repetition - ) Repetition of one's self or of one's acts; the
saying or doing what one has already said or done
Doornail - ) The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; - hence the old
saying, "As dead as a doornail
Double-Tongued - Inconsistency of speech might be taken as thinking one thing and
saying another or as
saying one thing to one, another thing to another
Apophthegm - ) A short, pithy, and instructive
saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim
Proverb - ) An old and common
saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage. ) A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure
saying; an enigma; a parable
Heterophemy - ) The unconscious
saying, in speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; - frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness
Alternation - In liturgy, the response of a congregation praying in turn with the officiating minister, as in
saying the Rosary or litanies; or the recitation of the Divine Office in choir, each side reciting a verse in turn
Jehovah-Shalom - Jehovah of peace, or prosperity, the name given by Gideon to an altar which he built in the place where the Angel-Jehovah had appeared to him, and saluted him by
saying "Peace be unto thee,"
Judges 6:24
Ditty - ) A
saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme
Spies - When they returned to the Israelite camp, they discouraged the Israelites from going to Israel,
saying it would be unconquerable
Mot - ) A pithy or witty
saying; a witticism
Rav zeira - He held Israel in high regard,
saying, "The air of Israel makes one wise
Enigma - ) A dark, obscure, or inexplicable
saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed
Scylla - The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the
saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand
Saying - Moses fled at this
saying. ...
Cicero treasured up the
sayings of Scaevola. Many are the
sayings of the wise
Instantly - And when they came to Jesus,they besought him instantly,
saying, that he was worthy for whom he should do this
Thing, Things - ...
3: ῥῆμα (Strong's #4487 — Noun Neuter — rhema — hray'-mah ) "a
saying, word," is translated "thing" in
Luke 2:15 ;
Luke 2:19 , AV (RV, "saying"); in
Acts 5:32 , "things. " See
saying
Lay Baptism - The one baptizing pours natural water over the head of subject, while
saying, "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
Baptism, Lay - The one baptizing pours natural water over the head of subject, while
saying, "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
Eve - Soon after the expulsion of the first pair from paradise, Eve conceived and bare a son; and imagining, as is probable, that she had given birth to the promised seed, she called his name Cain, which signifies possession,
saying, "I have gotten a man from the Lord. The Scriptures name only these three sons of Adam and Eve, but sufficiently inform us,
Genesis 5:4 , that they had many more,
saying, that "Adam lived, after he had begotten Seth, eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters
Amice - When putting it on he touches the head with it,
saying: "Put on my head, O Lord, the helmet of salvation, in order to repel the assaults of the devil
Hymeneus - A member of the church, probably at Ephesus, who fell into the heresy of denying the true doctrine of the resurrection, and
saying it had already taken place
Saying And Doing - SAYING AND DOING. —The contrast between ‘saying’ and ‘doing’ is based on an axiomatic principle of the moral and spiritual life, which, notwithstanding its simplicity and obviousness, is apt to be overlooked, viz. The distinction thus suggested necessarily finds a large place in the teaching of our Lord, who, as the Founder of a religion of inward reality, frequently emphasized the importance of ‘doing’ rather than ‘saying. Not that Jesus by any means underrated the importance of ‘saying’; He made confession of His name one of the most solemn obligations of discipleship (
Matthew 10:32-33, cf. In contrast with this ideal of ‘doing,’ Jesus warned men against the subtle dangers of mere ‘saying. The ‘acted parable’ of the withering of the barren fig-tree with its deceptive show of premature leaves, was a solemn warning against the danger and sin of ‘saying’ without ‘doing’ (
Matthew 21:18-19, Mark 11:12-14). Better that the ‘saying’ should follow than outrun the ‘doing,’ and be inspired by a truthful and humble judgment of even our best efforts and achievements; ‘when ye shall have done all the things that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which it was our duty to do’ (
Luke 17:10)
Amice - ) A square of white linen worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while
saying Mass
Dictum - ) An authoritative statement; a dogmatic
saying; an apothegm
Jehovah-Jireh - The expression used in
Genesis 22:14 , "in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen," has been regarded as equivalent to the
saying, "Man's extremity is God's opportunity
Incantation - The chanting or
saying of a magical formula to produce a magical effect
Hymenaeus - He is also mentioned with Philetus, as having erred concerning the truth,
saying that the resurrection had passed already (probably allegorising it), and had overthrown the faith of some
Ebenezer - The word signifies the stone of help; and it was erected by the prophet,
saying, "Hitherto the Lord hath helped us
Chasuble - ) The outer vestment worn by the priest in
saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only
Aser - The fertility of the land gave rise to the
saying that in Aser oil flowed as a river
Asher - The fertility of the land gave rise to the
saying that in Aser oil flowed as a river
Immediately - And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him,
saying, I will, be thou clean
Faith: the Summary of Virtue - The Jews in the Talmud have the
saying, 'The whole law was given to Moses at Sinai, in six hundred and thirteen precepts
Rubrics - (Latin: rubrica, red earth used by carpenters as chalk to mark wood; red titles of law announcements) ...
Directive precepts or liturgical prescriptions found in the Missal and the Ritual to guide the priest in the execution of sacred rites,
saying Mass, administering the Sacraments, etc
Indult - A personal indult is that of having a private oratory, or of
saying Mass in a sitting position
Fame - The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house,
saying, Joseph's brethren are come
Serving Two Masters - A title referring to a
saying of Christ in the famous Sermon on the Mount
Forest, John, Blessed - He was burned at Smithfield, the fire being fed with fragments of an enormous wooden statue of Saint Derfel Gadarn which from time immemorial had been venerated in Wales and concerning which there was an old
saying that it would one day burn a forest
John Forest, Blessed - He was burned at Smithfield, the fire being fed with fragments of an enormous wooden statue of Saint Derfel Gadarn which from time immemorial had been venerated in Wales and concerning which there was an old
saying that it would one day burn a forest
Gregorian Altar - It is related that Saint Gregory, by
saying one Mass, liberated the soul of a monk, named Justus, from Purgatory; so the faithful have confidently hoped that any Mass on this altar would free a soul from Purgatory
Altar, Gregorian - It is related that Saint Gregory, by
saying one Mass, liberated the soul of a monk, named Justus, from Purgatory; so the faithful have confidently hoped that any Mass on this altar would free a soul from Purgatory
Repetition - ) The act of repeating; a doing or
saying again; iteration
Muggins - ) In certain games, to score against, or take an advantage over (an opponent), as for an error, announcing the act by
saying "muggins
Monument - ) A
saying, deed, or example, worthy of record
Sentiment - ) A sentence, or passage, considered as the expression of a thought; a maxim; a
saying; a toast
Acceptation - This is a
saying worthy of all acceptation
Parable - , those in Matthew 13 and Synoptic parallels; sometimes it is used of a short
saying or proverb, e. Such a narrative or
saying, dealing with earthly things with a spiritual meaning, is distinct from a fable, which attributes to things what does not belong to them in nature. ...
2: παροιμία (Strong's #3942 — Noun Feminine — paroima — par-oy-mee'-ah ) denotes "a wayside
saying" (from paroimos, "by the way"), "a byword," "maxim," or "problem,"
2 Peter 2:22
Gallio - Roman proconsul of the province of Achaia, before whom Paul was accused; but who drove the Jews away,
saying he would be no judge of words, and names, and of their law
Corban - Jews were much addicted to rash vows; a
saying of the rabbis was, "It is hard for the parents, but the law is clear, vows must be kept
Conversation - This afternoon being on a visit, as I stepped aside from the company, I overheard one of them
saying, 'I love Mr
Nicolas - 4) says that Nicolas, when reproached by the apostles with jealousy, offered his wife to any to marry, but that Nicolas lived a pure life and used to quote Matthias'
saying, "we ought to abuse (i
Wont - ...
They were wont to speak in old time,
saying-- 2 Samuel 20
Vincent, Rule of Saint - 304has always been revered in the Church and is known as the author ofthe
saying, "Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus, creditumest," meaning what has been done or believed always, everywhereand by all is to be accepted
Repetitions - The rendering of the Sinaitic Syriac is "Do not be
saying battalatha, idle things," i
Bible: Why Priests Withhold it - Such trash as they trade in would never go off their hands if they did not keep their shops thus dark; which made one of their shavelings so bitterly complain of Luther for spoiling their market,
saying that but for him they might have persuaded the people of Germany to eat hay
Advertise - ...
I thought to advertise thee,
saying buy it before the inhabitants and elders of my people
Miracle - Miracles can be wrought only by Almighty power, as when Christ healed lepers,
saying, "I will, be thou clean," or calmed the tempest, "Peace, be still
Preachers: Not to Preach Themselves - Francis of Assisi, who nevertheless was represented as
saying, 'God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ
All Souls Day - The Office of the Dead must be recited by the clergy on this day and Pope Benedict XV granted to all priests the privilege of
saying three Masses of requiem: one for the souls in purgatory, one for the intention of the Holy Father, one for the priest's
Ichabod - , no glory,
saying, "The glory is departed from Isreal;" and with that word on her lips she expired
Silvanus, Bishop of Gaza - Eusebius speaks with high admiration of his Christian endurance,
saying that he was "reserved to the last to set the seal, as it were, to the conflict in Palestine" (Eus
Splendor - The basic significance of “splendor and majesty” with overtones of superior power and position is attested in the application of this word to kings: “Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him,
saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him,
saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!” (
Dorotheus (10), Bishop of Thessalonica - The emperor Anastasius refused the message of the legates, tried to corrupt them, and wrote to the pope
saying that he could suffer insults, but not commands (July 11, 517). The pope wrote to his legates,
saying that they must see Dorotheus deposed, and take care that Aristides should not be his successor. He accordingly wrote an agreeable letter,
saying that he had exposed his life in defence of bp. Pope Hormisdas wrote back,
saying that the crime was known to all the world, and required clearer defence; he remitted its examination to the patriarch of Constantinople
Kiss, Liturgical Use of - At High Mass the celebrant kisses the altar, and presents his left cheek to the deacon's,
saying Pax tecum (peace be with you); the deacon conveys the salute to the sub-deacon, thence to the other clergy
Liturgical Use of Kiss - At High Mass the celebrant kisses the altar, and presents his left cheek to the deacon's,
saying Pax tecum (peace be with you); the deacon conveys the salute to the sub-deacon, thence to the other clergy
Christ: Riches of His Grace - The braziers in the hall were supplied with logs of rare, sweet-scented wood for fuel; but they burned with a far more delicious fragrance when the noble citizen bringing forth the king's bonds for the repayment of the large sum of £60,000 (equal to £900,000 now), thrust them into the blazing fire,
saying, that he was too happy thus to discharge the king's obligations
Sacrament - The bread and wine in the Lord's Supper are considered sacraments in that they are visible manifestations of the covenant promise of our Lord: "In the same way, after the supper he took the cup,
saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you
Christian - Peter accepts it,
saying that to suffer as a 'Christian ' is a cause of thanksgiving
Pelatiah - The prophet fell on his face thereupon
saying, "Ah! Lord God! wilt Thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?" The people regarded Pelatiah as a mainstay of the city
Wise - ) Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as, a wise
saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination
Needle's Eye - This occurs in the gospels in the
saying that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven
Consubstantiation - Some of his followers, who acknowledged that similes prove nothing, contented themselves with
saying that the body and blood of Christ are really present in the sacrament in an inexplicable manner
Troas - Here Paul, on his second missionary journey, saw the vision of a "man of Macedonia," who appeared to him,
saying, "Come over, and help us" (
Acts 16:8-11 )
Dignity of Christian Character: to be Maintained - ' Such also was Philip's
saying to his son, when, at a certain entertainment, he sang in a very agreeable and skilful manner, 'Are you not ashamed to sing so well?' Even so, when one who professes to be of the seed royal of heaven, is able to rival the ungodly in their cunning, worldliness, merriment, scheming, or extravagance, may they not blush to possess such dangerous capacities? Heirs of heaven have something better to do than to emulate the children of darkness
Baptism For the Dead - This expression as used by the apostle may be equivalent to
saying, "He who goes through a baptism of blood in order to join a glorified church which has no existence
Demetrius - John commended him, saying, he “hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself” (3 John 1:12 )
Harmon - TEV does not translate the final Hebrew word,
saying it is unclear
Arpad - Isaiah mimicked such statements,
saying Assyria was only a rod of Yahweh's anger and would soon face punishment for its pride (
Isaiah 10:5-19 )
Adjure - Joshua adjured them at that time,
saying, cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city of Jericho
Comprehend - If there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this
saying, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself
Means of Grace - The bread and wine in the Lord's Supper are considered sacraments in that they are visible manifestations of the covenant promise of our Lord: "In the same way, after the supper he took the cup,
saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you
Saw - A
saying proverb maxim decree
Seek - The man asked him,
saying, what seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethen
Macarius, a Roman Christian - ]'>[1] Jerome calls him Ὅλβιος ,
saying, "Tunc discipulus Ὄλβιος , vere nominis sui si in talem magistrum non impegisset" (Ep
Sursum Corda - Cyprian giving an explanation of the meaning and purpose of theSursum Corda as follows: "It is for this cause that the Priestbefore worship uses words of introduction and puts the minds ofhis brethren in preparation by
saying, 'Lift up your hearts'; thatwhile the people answer, 'We lift them up unto the Lord,' they maybe reminded that there is nothing for them to think of except theLord
Preacher: Must Feed the People (2) - Try it in earnest and you cannot fail; you will soon be
saying, 'Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as doves to their windows?' ...
...
Naomi - She asked to be called no more Naomi, 'pleasant,' but Mara, 'bitter,'
saying "for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me
Nathanael - He appears to have been a pious Jew who waited for the Messiah: and upon Jesus
saying to him, "Before Philip called thee, I saw thee under the fig tree," Nathanael, convinced, by some circumstance not explained, of his omniscience, exclaimed, "Master, thou art the Son of God, and the King of Israel
Gershom - She accordingly took a "sharp stone" and circumcised her son Gershom,
saying, "Surely a bloody husband art thou to me", i
Rechabites - When he did so, they refused,
saying that their father Jonadab (Jehonadab) had commanded them not to drink wine, nor to live in houses, nor to engage in agriculture
James, Son of Alphaeus - He spoke with a measure of authority at the conference respecting the law not being enforced on the Gentiles,
saying, 'My sentence is,' etc
Abiezer - Gideon soothed the wounded vanity of Ephraim when upbraiding him for not having called in their aid against Midian,
saying "Is not the grape of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?" (
Joshua 17:2
Knight - ) To dub or create (one) a knight; - done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword,
saying: Rise, Sir - -
Bushel - ’...
To the influence of Roman customs was no doubt due the substitution of modius for seah in the report of the
saying (
Matthew 5:15 etc. ...
The
saying of our Lord is as picturesque as it is forcible
Mouse - Herodotus, the Greek historian, accounts for the destruction of the army of Sennacherib (
2 Kings 19:35 ) by
saying that in the night thousands of mice invaded the camp and gnawed through the bow-strings, quivers, and shields, and thus left the Assyrians helpless
Bud - ...
Psalm 132:17 (b) Here is a beautiful way of
saying that the throne of David would again be set up and dead Israel would again become a living nation
Predestinate - " (
Ephesians 1:5) Hence it will follow, that all the purposes of God in Christ concerning redemption are first formed in the Lord Jesus, and then the church in him; and hence the church is represented as
saying: with one voice, (
2 Timothy 1:9) "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began
Maranatha - It should seem to be rather a proverbial method of
saying, let a man that is guilty of such and such things be an Anathema Maranatha
Anathema - Paul echoed similar sentiments in
Romans 9:3 ,
saying he would be cut off from Christ if that were the means to save his Jewish people
Jerubbaal - )
Judges 6:32 translated, "they (not Joash, but one, for the townsmen generally) called him Jeroboam,
saying, Let Baal fight against him, because he hath thrown down his altar
Report - ...
A — 2: εὐφημία (Strong's #2162 — Noun Feminine — euphemia — yoo-fay-mee'-ah ) "a good report, good reputation" (eu, "well," pheme "a
saying or report"), is used in
2 Corinthians 6:8 . ...
C — 5: βλασφημέω (Strong's #987 — Verb — blasphemeo — blas-fay-meh'-o ) "to speak slanderously, impiously, profanely" (blapto, "to injure," and pheme, "a
saying"), is translated "we be slanderously reported" in
Romans 3:8 (Passive Voice). ...
Note: In
Matthew 28:15 , AV, diaphemizo, "to spread abroad" (dia, "throughout," pheme, "a
saying, report"), is translated "is commonly reported" (RV, "was spread abroad")
Nag's Head Story - Scory was supposed to have consecrated them by placing a Bible on the neck of each,
saying, "Receive the power of preaching the Word of God sincerely
Asp - Our Arabs killed it,
saying it was exceedingly venomous
East, Turning to the - By this expression is meant turning to theAltar in
saying the Creed and Glorias and in celebrating the HolyCommunion, this last being called the Eastward position
Heaven: a Sustaining Prospect - ' When he was in the midst of the flames he exhorted his companions to constancy,
saying, 'We shall not end our lives in the fire, but make a change for a better life; yea, for coals we shall receive pearls
Dog - The prophet insulted the priests by
saying their sacrifices were no better than breaking a dog's neck and sacrificing the dog (
Isaiah 66:3 )
Rust - James' mention of riches, moths, and rust (
James 5:2-3 ) suggests that he was applying Jesus'
saying
Needle - This attempt to dull the sharp edge of Jesus'
saying runs counter to the context
Sackcloth - And at any time when a reverse of circumstances took place, they rent the sackcloth from their loins: hence David is represented as
saying, "Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness
Lord (2) - John commences the Revelation
saying: "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day
Lord (2) - John commences the Revelation
saying: "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day
Streets - It is a common thing to see such characters, far past the bloom of life, mounted on stone seats, with a bit of Persian carpet, at the corner of the streets, or in front of their bazaars, combing their beards, smoking their pipes, or drinking their coffee, with a pitcher of water standing beside them, or
saying their prayers, or reading the Koran
Lord (2) - John commences the Revelation
saying: "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day
Rogation Days - The Rogation Days were originated about the middle of theFifth Century by Mamercus, Bishop of Vienne in Gaul, on the occasionof a great calamity that threatened his Diocese; whence arose thecustom of
saying the Litany and certain Psalms such as 103d and104th, during perambulations of parishes
Lamb - He is represented as now standing in the midst of the throne of God, as a "Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God," "And they sung a new song
saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation, and hast made us unto our God kings and priests. " "And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I
saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever
Isaac Jogues, Blessed - He traveled to Rome where he was granted the privilege of
saying Mass by Pope Urban VIII, this having been made canonically impossible because his hands had been mutilated, two fingers having been burnt off
Athens - It was a sarcastic
saying of the Roman satirist that it was "easier to find a god at Athens than a man
Authority - ) A precedent; a decision of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion,
saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent
Sentence - ) A short
saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw
Mandrakes - There doth not seem to be any determined fruit meant by those mandrakes; and some have concluded, that they were flowers, such as the jessamine or violet; and the language of the church in
saying, that they gave a smell, seems to favour this opinion
Beelzebub, - He also denounces the dreadful blasphemy of
saying that the work done by the Holy Spirit was accomplished by the influence of Satan: this blasphemy against the Holy Spirit was the sin that should never be forgiven
Saw - ) A
saying; a proverb; a maxim
Apollos - His name is associated with that of Paul in connection with the party spirit at Corinth, which the apostle strongly rebuked; but from his
saying he had 'transferred these things to himself and to Apollos,' it would appear that the Corinthians had local leaders, under whom they ranged themselves, whom he does not name; and that he taught them the needed lesson, and established the general principle by the use of his own name and that of Apollos rather than the names of their leaders
Moses - The name (as the margin of our Bibles states) means drawn out The illustrious history of Moses forms so large a page in the sacred volume of the Old Testament, that it supersedes the necessity of
saying much about him here
Mark, Marcus - He was with Peter at Babylon, and when Paul was a second time a prisoner at Rome, he asked for Mark,
saying he was serviceable for the ministry
Affirm - 4), denotes "to allege, to affirm by way of alleging or professing,"
Acts 24:9 (RV, "affirming," AV, "saying"); 25:19;
Romans 1:22 , "professing
Nethinim - It is probable that they became proselytes,
Nehemiah 10:28 , and that many of them could cordially unite with David in
saying, "I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness,"
Psalm 84:10
There - ...
And there came a voice from heaven,
saying, thou art my beloved Son
Adonijah - 68) this was in eastern countries considered as a pretension to the crown, which agrees with Solomon
saying, 'Ask for him the kingdom also,' and explains also the advice given by Ahithophel to Absalom, to go in publicly to his father's wives
Oracle - 16) quotes Papias as
saying that ‘Matthew composed the oracles (sc
Keys of the Church - The Office of Institution recognizes this right in that one ofits provisions is that "then shall the Senior Warden (or the memberof the Vestry supplying his place) present the keys of the Church tothe new Incumbent,
saying, In the name and behalf of———Parish
I do receive and acknowledge you, the Reverend, (name)as Priest and Rector of the same; and in token thereof, give intoyour hands the keys of the Church
Tittle - letters are distinguished from others that they closely resemble, and there are several Jewish
sayings which declare that any one who is guilty of interchanging such letters in certain passages of the OT will thereby destroy the whole world (see Edersheim, LT
. ...
On the lips of Jesus the
saying, ‘One jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law till all be fulfilled’ (
Matthew 5:18), is startling; and a number of modern critical scholars are inclined to meet the exegetical difficulty by denying the genuineness of the logion—regarding it as an answer of the Evangelist himself to the Pauline anti-legalism, or even as a later Jewish-Christian insertion Certainly, if the
saying stood by itself, unqualified and uninterpreted in any way, there might be some warrant for such criticism, even although on textual grounds there is nothing to be said against the verse, which, moreover, reappears in Luke, though in a shorter form. ), we may see in the
saying an utterance that has its polemical bearing. ’...
The point of the
saying clearly lies in the word ‘fulfilled. Regarded in this way, the
saying is nothing more than an arresting utterance of the familiar Christian truth of the relation in spiritual things between the kernel and the husk, the calyx and the flower
Cornerstone - Zechariah expands this promise by
saying that the cornerstone will come from the tribe of Judah (10:4). Paul builds on this concept in
Ephesians 2:20 by
saying that Jesus Christ is the chief cornerstone, the apostles and prophets are foundation stones, and the whole building (the church) is a holy temple in the Lord
Say, Utter, Affirm - But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets,
saying, Prophesy not” (
Amos 2:11-12). ...
Ne'ûm (נְאֻם, Strong's #5002), “utterance;
saying. 30:1) in the
sayings of Agur, the usage throughout the Old Testament is virtually limited to a word from God
Celibacy (2) - Matthew records a
saying of Christ in which it is contemplated that by a special vocation some are called to celibacy. ’ Our Lord in His reply recognized that there are some for whom this ‘saying’ of the disciples is true, but only those ‘to whom it is given. He then repeated in a different form, ‘He that is able to receive it, let him receive it’ (
Matthew 19:10-12), the previous statement that the ‘saying’ of the disciples, to which He had thus given a higher and deeper meaning, was not a maxim for all His followers, but only for those who, having the Divine call to the celibate life, had with it the Divine gift of power to obey the call. This particular
saying is not recorded by any of the Evangelists except St. 97) quotes as a
saying of Christ, with the introduction ‘The Lord says,’ the following: ‘He who is married, let him not put away his wife; and he who is not married, let him not marry; he who with purpose of chastity has agreed not to marry, let him remain unmarried. ’ Some have thought this
saying to be a reminiscence of
1 Corinthians 7:8 to
1 Corinthians 11:27 ascribed to Christ because of the words ‘not I, but the Lord’
in 7:10; but Clement apparently has our Lords words in
Matthew 19:12 in view, for a little later in the same chapter he says, ‘They who have made themselves eunuchs from all sin for the kingdom of heaven’s sake, these are blessed, they who fast from the world. ’ It is possible that in these passages the ‘Gospel according to the Egyptians’ preserved an echo of
Matthew 19:12, or some
saying of our Lord unrecorded in the NT
Chantry - The term chantry was employed also to designate a small chapel specially erected for the use of the incumbent in
saying or singing his Mass
Fame - A — 1: φήμη (Strong's #5345 — Noun Feminine — pheme — fay'-may ) originally denoted "a Divine voice, an oracle;" hence, "a
saying or report" (akin to phemi, "to say," from a root meaning "to shine, to be clear;" hence, Lat
Hypostasis - Athanasius assisted; from which time the Latins made no great scruple of
saying three hypostases, nor the Greek of three persons
Hymenaeus - These false teachers ‘made shipwreck concerning the faith’; their heresy consisted in denying the bodily resurrection,
saying that the resurrection was already past apparently an early form of Gnosticism which, starting with the idea of matter being evil, made the body an unessential part of our nature, to be discarded as soon as possible
Demetrius - Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen, in fear for their gains, raised a tumult against Paul as
saying "they be no gods which are made with hands
Centurion - The centurion at the Lord's crucifixion uttered the testimony so remarkable from a Gentile: "certainly this was a righteous man"; Luke's explanation (
Luke 23:47) of what a Gentile would mean by
saying, "Truly this was the Son of God" (
Matthew 27:54)
Mock - As he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him,
saying, go up, thou bald head
Coal - The words of Paul (
Romans 12:20 ) are equivalent to
saying, "By charity and kindness thou shalt soften down his enmity as surely as heaping coals on the fire fuses the metal in the crucible
Lamech - The...
most satisfactory, perhaps, is that Lamech had accidentally or in...
self-defense killed a man, and was exposed to the vengeance of "the...
avenger of blood;" but quiets the fears of his wives by
saying of...
Cain under heavy penalties,
Genesis 4:15 , much more would he guard...
the life of Lamech who was comparatively innocent
Sentence - A maxim an axiom a short
saying containing moral instruction
Ear - When a servant, whose time of service had expired, preferred to stop with his master,
saying, "I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free," his ear was bored with an awl to the door post, and his ear belonged to his master perpetually, he was to hear only that one as master: type of Christ and His love to the church
Within - , "in the midst of," is to be preferred; the kingdom of God was not in the hearts of the Pharisees; (b) en, "of thinking or
saying within oneself," e
Say - In
Matthew 14:27 , "saying," and
Mark 6:50 , "and saith," emphasis is perhaps laid on the fact that the Lord, hitherto silent as He moved over the lake, then addressed His disciples. ...
Note: A characteristic of lego is that it refers to the purport or sentiment of what is said as well as the connection of the words; this is illustrated in
Hebrews 8:1 , RV, "(in the things which) we are
saying," AV, "(which) we have spoken. ,
Romans 9:29 ; "to tell before,"
Matthew 24:25 ;
Mark 13:23 ; "were spoken before,"
2 Peter 3:2 ;
Jude 1:17 ; (b) of "saying" before,
2 Corinthians 7:3 ; 13:2 , RV (AV, "to tell before" and "foretell");
Galatians 1:9 ; 5:21 ; in
1 Thessalonians 4:6 , "we forewarned," RV. ...
Notes: (1) Phasko, "to affirm, assert," is translated "saying" in
Acts 24:9 , AV (RV, "affirming"), and
Revelation 2:2 in some mss
Salutations - " The Mohammedans of Egypt and Syria never salute a Christian in these terms: they content themselves with
saying to them, "Good day to you;" or, "Friend, how do you do?" Niebuhr's statement is confirmed by Mr. The country people at meeting clap each other's hands very smartly twenty or thirty times together, without
saying any thing more than, "How do ye do? I wish you good health. All the forms of salutation now observed appear to have been in general use in the days of our Lord; for he represents a servant as falling down at the feet of his master, when he had a favour to ask; and an inferior servant, as paying the same compliment to the first, who belonged, it would seem, to a higher class; "The servant, therefore, fell down and worshipped him,
saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. And his fellow servant fell down at his feet, and besought him,
saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all,"...
Matthew 18:26 ;
Matthew 18:29
Loans - ...
Apart from incidental references in parables, there is one
saying of Jesus which calls for fuller notice. On the authority of this
saying the unlawfulness for Christians of receiving interest on loans has been based; and, rightly understood and applied, the inference is just. Paul’s
saying, ‘Owe no man anything, save to love one another’ (
Romans 13:8)
Divine Attributes - Though God is absolutely one and simple, yet to enable us to form a better idea of Him and to unfold as far as possible what is implied in
saying that He is All-perfect, we apply or attribute to Him certain perfections which we find in creatures
Gallio - Eusebius quotes Jerome as
saying that he committed suicide a
Attributes, Divine - Though God is absolutely one and simple, yet to enable us to form a better idea of Him and to unfold as far as possible what is implied in
saying that He is All-perfect, we apply or attribute to Him certain perfections which we find in creatures
Word, the - and is translated 'word,
saying, speech,' etc
Achish - " Achish dealt well with David, gave him Ziklag to dwell in, and would have had him go to war with him against Israel,
saying, "I will make thee keeper of my head for ever" 1 Samuel 27 ;
1 Samuel 28:2
Gospel - Angels thought so, when at the command of God they posted down from heaven, at the birth of Christ, as if ambitious to be the first preachers of it to a lost world, and in a multitude of the heavenly host met together, to proclaim the blessed tidings to the Jewish shepherds,
saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, good will towards men
Tower - And he spake also unto the men of Penuel,
saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower” (
ja'el - (
Judges 5:27 ) She then waited to meet the pursuing Barak, and led him into her tent that she might in his presence claim the glory of the deed! Many have supposed that by this act she fulfilled the
saying of Deborah, (
Judges 4:9 ) and hence they have supposed that Jael was actuated by some divine and hidden influence
Rose - The Jewish sensualists, in
Wis_2:8 , are introduced
saying, "Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments; and let no flower of the spring pass by us
Smart - ) Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart
saying
Golden Rule - —This name is given to a
saying of Jesus recorded in the Sermon on the Mount. The two versions of the
saying are as follows:...
Matthew 7:12 ‘All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets. ’...
The
saying is rightly called a rule, for it lays down a general principle for moral guidance, and furnishes a ready test of the social value of words and deeds. To the disciples of Christ the coming of the Kingdom of God is the supreme end; for them this
saying is, therefore, the golden rule, furnishing a standard of excellence whose practical value consists in its universal applicability. Disparagement of the
saying is the result either of failure to fathom the depths of its meaning, or of the rejection of Christ’s teaching in regard to the blessedness in which all men’s good consists. ’...
In its negative form the
saying is found in both Jewish and pagan sources before the Christian era. A
saying of Confucius is, ‘Do not to others what you would not wish done to yourself’ (Legge, Chinese Classics, i. ’ The
saying is quoted with no context, but a comparison with Nicom. 110) ascribes to Seneca the
saying, ‘ab altero expectes alteri quod feceris,’—a suggestive and rare contrast to the Stoic maxim, ‘Quod tibi fieri non vis, alteri ne feceris. The
saying of Christ leaves abundant room for good actions which the recipient may be known to be altogether unable to return,—another reason for refusing to see in the positive form of the Golden Rule an appeal to self-interest. There must be no arbitrary limiting of the extension of the term ‘men’ in the
saying, ‘Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them
Christmas - Priests have the privilege of
saying three Masses, at midnight, daybreak, and morning
Jehovah Jireh - The meaning of Mori-jah," the seeing of Jehovah," implies that it originated in this
saying of Abraham, and that "Moriah" in
Genesis 22:2 is used by anticipation
Reen - ...
Luke 23:31 (b) This is a figurative way of
saying that if Israel was so rebellious and so hostile when the Lord JESUS was with them, what would they be like when CHRIST was gone from them
Eating And Drinking - The careless self-indulgence of the servant who, in his lord’s absence, began to eat and drink with the drunken (
Matthew 24:49, Luke 12:45) is condemned on the one hand; and so, on the other hand, is that over anxiety which keeps
saying, ‘What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or Wherewithal shall we be clothed?’ (
Matthew 6:24-34, Luke 12:22-34)
Purpose of God - "The Lord of hosts hath sworn,
saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand
Communication - Abner had communication with the elders of Israel,
saying, Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you
Transfiguration - The law and the prophets were represented by Moses and Elias; but when Peter proposed to make three tabernacles, he was silenced by a voice from heaven,
saying "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: hear ye him
Antinomians - They had not injured him at all by
saying he was not a strict Jew,
Allelujah - The beloved apostle John tells us, that in those visions he was favoured with, in seeing heaven opened, and beholding the glorified inhabitants of the New Jerusalem, he heard a great voice of much people in heaven,
saying, Hallelujah
Curse - ...
On the other hand the
saying ‘Jesus be cursed’ became a common
saying among the opponents of Christianity during the time of Paul
Noetus, a Native of Smyrna Noetus - But he stood out against them,
saying, 'What evil am I doing in glorifying one God?' And the presbyters replied to him, 'We too know in truth one God, we know Christ, we know that the Son suffered even as He suffered, and died even as He died, and rose again on the third day, and is at the right hand of the Father, and cometh to judge the living and the dead, and these things which we have learned we allege. 1) expressly confirms,
saying that he and his brother both died soon after their excommunication and were buried without Christian rites
Ignorance (2) - In
saying this He renewed that condemnation which He had often passed upon religious ignorance, for He implied that those who slew Him had need of the Father’s forgiveness—His own forgiveness the words themselves express. But what the
saying immediately proclaims is that the sin of ignorance is not beyond forgiveness, even when it has led to the darkest of crimes; nay, that ignorance itself may be pleaded in extenuation (γάρ) before Him who knoweth all. (On the genuineness of the
saying see Meyer, Alford, WH
Voice (2) - —A ‘voice from heaven’ is mentioned in the Synoptics in Matthew 3:17 || (φωνὴ ἐκ τῶν οὐρανῶν), in the narrative of the Baptism (‘And lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased’), and again in Matthew 17:5 || in the narrative of the Transfiguration a ‘voice out of the cloud’ is spoken of (‘And behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying,’ etc. in John 12:28 ‘There came therefore a voice out of heaven, saying,’ etc. Thus at the death of Moses a Bath Kol was heard saying: ‘Fear thou not, Moses! I myself will care for thy burial’ (Deut. Only, the Rabbis shrank from saying baldly, ‘God said so and so,’ and made use of the phrase ‘A Bath Kol came (or was given)’ instead. Thus it is said that when the Rabbinical authorities proposed to include King Solomon among the finally lost, a Bath Kol was heard saying in the words of Job 34:33 ‘Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it?’† Montallegro - According to tradition, the Blessed Virgin appeared (July 2, 1557) on Monte Leto, to Giovanni Chichizola, a peasant, and showed him a picture of her passing from earthly life, saying that it had been transported by angels from Greece, and that she would leave it on the mountain side as a pledge of her love
Faith: Appropriating - When the glories of heaven burst upon his view, he does not stand at a distance, like a stranger,
saying, 'O God, these are thine
Scythians -
Colossians 3:11 uses Scythians to represent the most repugnant barbarian and slave,
saying they, too, are accepted in Christ, all social and cultural barriers being abolished in His church
Decrees, of God -
Isaiah 46:9-10 says, "Remember the former things long past, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, 10Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things which have not been done,
saying, ‘My purpose will be established, and I will accomplish all My good pleasure
Phut - 21-22) narrates that the king of Ethiopia unstrung a bow and gave it to Cambyses' messengers,
saying that when the king of Persia could pull a bow so easily he might come against the Ethiopians with an army stronger than theirs
Horn - (See
Psalms 132:17) And Zacharias celebrates Christ to the same amount in his song, when
saying, "the Lord hath raised up an horn for salvation for us, in the house of his servant David
Life - Sin having come in, this life is forfeited and God claims it,
saying, "surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man
Lime - The use of it was for plaster or cement, the first mention of which is in Deuteronomy 27, where Moses directed the elders of the people,
saying, "Keep all the commandments which I command you this day
Silvanus, Solitary of Sinai - " The stranger confessed his fault and was forgiven, Silvanus playfully
saying, "Martha is evidently necessary to Mary
Cry - (1) ‘to cry’ or ‘cry out’ (= κράζειν, ἀνακράζειν:...
(a) of articulate cries, followed by words uttered (often with ‘saying’ or ‘and said’ added): of joy,
Mark 11:9 and ||;
Matthew 21:15 (children crying in the temple, ‘Hosanna’); of complaint or distress,
Mark 10:48 ||
Luke 18:39, Matthew 20:31 (Bartimaeus);
Matthew 14:30 (Peter crying out while walking on the water);*
: of joy,
John 12:13 (‘Hosanna’); of distress,
Matthew 15:22 (Canaanitish woman … ‘cried,
saying’: cf. ]'>[8] quotes a Jewish
saying which strikingly illustrates the phrase: ‘There are three kinds of prayers, each loftier than the preceding: prayer, crying, and tears
Herod Agrippa i. - And when he spoke and made an oration to them, they gave a shout,
saying, 'It is the voice of a god, and not of a man
Nabal - " Nabal insultingly resented the demand,
saying, "Who is David, and who is the son of Jesse?" (
1 Samuel 25:10,11 )
Blindness - In Ludd (Lydda) the
saying is, every one is either blind or has but one eye
Castaway - Paul turned the argument on them,
saying they needed to prove themselves that they had not failed the test of Christ and become reprobates
Abel-Mizraim - of Jordan, which would make Moses' standpoint in
saying "beyond" the E
Ananias - His wife,
saying the same thing, also met with a like punishment
Heal - ...
False prophets are condemned because they deal only with the symptoms and not with the deep spiritual hurts of the people: “They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly,
saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace” (
Salvation - Thus, instead of
saying, God saves them and protects them, they say, God is their salvation
Fig - The
saying ‘to sit under one’s own vine and fig tree’ indicated the enjoyment of long-lasting peace, contentment and prosperity
Light - The first occurs in the figurative and somewhat enigmatic
saying preserved in
Matthew 6:22-23 =
Luke 11:34-35, where the eye is called the lamp of the body, the symbolism pointing to sincerity of soul as the decisive feature of life. Each Evangelist gives the
saying a different setting. He brought men from the circumference to the centre, laid supreme stress on motive, and sought to emphasize—as in this
saying—the vital importance of the inner spirit for conduct. ...
The introduction of the
saying in
Luke 11:33-36 is due to the key-word λύχνος. groups
sayings together less from their internal correspondence than from some verbal common element. He sharpens the point of the
saying by introducing
Luke 11:35. Yet the stress of the
saying falls on attention to the inward life as determining the course and value of the outer. The connexion of
Luke 11:33 with the
saying is not immediate. It emphasizes that frankness of spirit and necessity of good conduct which the
saying upon light advocates as the sole reasonable position for Christian disciples to assume. ), prefer to read the
saying in the light of the Apostolic age, as if it meant that after the Resurrection all reserve upon the Christian mysteries was to be thrown aside (
Mark 4:11). This, however, cannot be the original sense of the
saying, and there is no reason why one should give up the interpretation which makes the lamp here equivalent to the teaching of Jesus or the knowledge of the gospel (see Expos. But the essential bearing of the
saying is the same, viz. ...
(c) Upon the other hand, Christ, the Light, came to His own people; and there are repeated allusions to the brief opportunity of the Jews (
John 9:4, John 11:9-10, John 12:35-36), in
sayings which warn the nation against trilling with its privilege,—a privilege soon to be taken from its unworthy keeping
Outcasts - They called thee an outcast, saith the Lord, by Jeremiah, (
Jeremiah 30:17)
saying, This is Zion whom no man seeketh after. " And after many blessings of grace that the Lord promiseth shall be shown to Egypt in smiting and healing, it is added, "whom the Lord of hosts will bless,
saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of mine hands, and Israel mine inheritance
Account - ...
B — 1: λόγος (Strong's #3056 — Noun Masculine — logos — log'-os ) "a word or
saying," also means "an account which one gives by word of mouth" (cp. See CAUSE , COMMUNICATION , DO , DOCTRINE , FAME , INTENT , MATTER , MOUTH , PREACHING , QUESTION , REASON , RECKONING , RUMOR ,
saying , SHEW , SPEECH , TALK , THING , TIDINGS , TREATISE , UTTERANCE , WORD , WORK
Pilate, Pontius - This done, the soldiers began to deride the sufferer, and they threw around him a purple robe, probably some old cast-off robe of state (
Matthew 27:28 ;
John 19:2 ), and putting a reed in his right hand, and a crowd of thorns on his head, bowed the knee before him in mockery, and saluted him,
saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" They took also the reed and smote him with it on the head and face, and spat in his face, heaping upon him every indignity. ...
Pilate then led forth Jesus from within the Praetorium (
Matthew 27:27 ) before the people, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe,
saying, "Behold the man!" But the sight of Jesus, now scourged and crowned and bleeding, only stirred their hatred the more, and again they cried out, "Crucify him, crucify him!" and brought forth this additional charge against him, that he professed to be "the Son of God. Calling for water, he washed his hands in the sight of the people,
saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just person
Oath - For our Lord himself made solemn asseverations equivalent to an oath; and Paul repeatedly, in his inspired epistles, calls God to witness the truth of what he was
saying
Job - ‘And remember Job; when he cried unto the Lord,
saying, Verily evil hath afflicted me: but thou art the most merciful of all those who show mercy
Wilkinsonians - She asserted that those who refused to believe these exalted things concerning her, will be in the state of the unbelieving Jews, who rejected the council of God against themselves; and she told her hearers that was the eleventh hour, and the last call of mercy that ever should be granted them: for she heard an inquiry in heaven,
saying, "Who will go and preach to a dying world?" or words to that import; and she said she answered, "Here am I...
send me;" and that she left the realms of light and glory, and the company of the heavenly host, who are continually praising and worshipping God, in order to descend upon earth, and pass through many sufferings and trials for the happiness of mankind
Demand - The soldiers also demanded of him,
saying, what shall we do? Luke 3
Lass - ...
James 1:23 (b) This is a way of
saying that a man sees in the Scripture the spots and the blemishes of his life but does not use the remedy to get rid of them
Bitterness - There is an echo of this
saying in
Hebrews 12:15, where any member of the Church who introduces wrong doctrines or practices, and so leads others astray, becomes a ‘root of bitterness springing up’ (ῥίζα πικρίας ἄνω φύουσα); and there may be another echo of it in
Acts 8:23 (Revised Version margin), where Peter predicts that Simon Magus will ‘become gall (or a gall root) of bitterness’ (εἰς χολὴν πικρίας ὁρῶ σε ὄντα) by his evil influence over others, if he remains as he now is
Pearl - —This jewel, specially esteemed and familiar in the East, is twice used by our Lord as an image of the preciousness of the Christian religion: once in the
saying, ‘Cast not your pearls before swine’ (
Matthew 7:6), and again in the parable of the Pearl of Great Price (
Matthew 13:46)
Earthquake - ...
There was an earthquake at the death of the Lord, and the rocks were rent, which drew from the centurion the
saying, "Truly this was the Son of God
Pearl - —This jewel, specially esteemed and familiar in the East, is twice used by our Lord as an image of the preciousness of the Christian religion: once in the
saying, ‘Cast not your pearls before swine’ (
Matthew 7:6), and again in the parable of the Pearl of Great Price (
Matthew 13:46)
New Testament, Divorce in the - ...
"And there came to him
the Pharisees tempting him, and
saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female? And he said: For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh
Divorce in the New Testament - ...
"And there came to him
the Pharisees tempting him, and
saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female? And he said: For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh
Money-Changers - This gives point to the frequently quoted unwritten
saying ( agraphon ) of our Lord to His disciples: ‘Be ye expert money-changers’ be skilful in distinguishing true doctrine from false
Security - It is not clear what is meant by
saying that the politarchs ‘let them go
Logia - (loh gee uh) A Greek term applied to a collection of
sayings. The Church Fathers used “logia” to denote a collection of the
sayings of Jesus. Rather, the Hebrew logia were likely the
sayings of Jesus contained in Matthew and Luke, but not in Mark. Three papyrus fragments were found containing
sayings ascribed to Jesus. Each
saying begins with “Jesus says. 300-400, they contain over 200
sayings attributed to Jesus. ...
The Gospels, as well as those New Testament
sayings of Jesus found outside the Gospels (such as
Acts 20:35 ), and the modern discoveries all demonstrate the early Church's concern for preserving Jesus'
sayings
Bridle - ...
Psalm 39:1 (b) This represents the restraining influence which David brought to bear upon his own mouth in order to prevent him from
saying things which should not be said
Cloud - on the mount of Transfiguration, a cloud overshadowed those present, and "a voice came out of the cloud,
saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him
Infirmity - Let us be cautious and watchful, however, against sin in all its forms: for it argues a deplorable state of mind when men love to practise sin, and then lay it upon constitution, the infirmity of nature, the decree of God, the influence of Satan, and thus attempt to excuse themselves by
saying they could not avoid it
Read - )
saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel
Amaziah - A priest at Bethel who sent Amos the prophet home,
saying he did not have the right to prophesy against King Jeroboam II of Israel (789-746 B
Camphire - ...
In the Song of Solomon, the bride is described as
saying, "My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi,"
Song of Solomon 1:14 ; and again, "Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, camphire with spikenard,"
Song of Solomon 4:13
Saint Bartholomew's Day - Then he demanded war with Spain,
saying that if it were not declared, another war might be expected
Nurse - She weeps and tenderly embraces her,
saying, My daughter, I shall see you no more; forget not your mother
Faith -
James 2:14-26, "though a man say he hath faith, and have not works, can (such a) faith save him?" the emphasis is on "say," it will be a mere
saying, and can no more save the soul than
saying to a "naked and destitute brother, be warmed and filled" would warm and fill him
Ephraim - When Israel blessed the two sons of Joseph he set Ephraim before his elder brother,
saying he should be greater, and his seed should become a multitude (or, 'fatness') of nations. This also agrees with the prophecy
saying 'the head of Ephraim ' is Samaria
Right Hand - God’s taking one’s “right hand” means that He strengthens him: “For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand,
saying unto thee, Fear not: I will help thee” (
saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?” (
Rephidim - At this station, adjoining to Mount Horeb, the people again murmured for want of water; and they chid Moses,
saying, "Give us water that we may drink. " And "they tempted the Lord,
saying, Is the Lord among us or not?" Moses, therefore, to convince them that he was, by a more obvious miracle than at Marah, smote the rock with his rod, by the divine command, and brought water out of it for the people to drink: wherefore, he called the place Meribah, "chiding," and the rock Massah, "temptation
Ephraim - When Israel blessed the two sons of Joseph he set Ephraim before his elder brother,
saying he should be greater, and his seed should become a multitude (or, 'fatness') of nations. This also agrees with the prophecy
saying 'the head of Ephraim ' is Samaria
Supper - "He took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave it unto them,
saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper,
saying This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you,"...
Luke 22:19-20 . He took the bread which was then on the table, and the wine, of which some had been used in sending round the cup of thanksgiving; and by
saying, "This is my body, this is my blood, do this in remembrance of me," he declared to his Apostles that this was the representation of his death by which he wished them to commemorate that event
Ransom (2) - It is probable from its structure that the second of the above passages (
1 Timothy 2:6) looks back upon Christ’s
saying in the first (
1 Peter 1:18-197); it has been thought also that the ἐλυτρώθητε in
1 Peter 1:18 is an echo of the same
saying (Denney, Death of Christ, p. Paul knew of the
saying of Jesus recorded in Matthew and Mark, there can be little doubt how he would have interpreted it. But what of Christ’s own thought? The genuineness of the
saying in
Matthew 20:28 =
Mark 10:45 has been assailed (by Baur, etc. It is His ‘life’ He gives, and He startles by
saying that He yields it up as a λύτρον ἀντὶ πολλῶν. No doubt it is possible to empty the
saying of most of its significance by generalizing it to mean that in some undefined way Christ’s death would be of great saving benefit to mankind, and therefore might be spoken of metaphorically as a ransom for the good of many (cf
Amen - ...
Jesus introduces his teaching by
saying amen lego humin
, that is, "truly I say to you, " on nearly seventy occasions in the Gospels (thirty times in Matthew, thirteen in Mark, six in Luke, and twenty in John, where the amen is always doubled). When Jesus instructed Nicodemus, for example, he appealed not to Scripture but to his own authority,
saying "Amen, amen, I say to you" (
John 3:3,5 ; see also
Matthew 6:2,5 , 16 ; 18:3 ;
Luke 13:35 ;
John 5:19,24 , 25 ; 6:26,32 , 47,53 ). Amen lego humin also punctuates the teaching of truths unknown in the Old Testament, and seasons startling
sayings for which Jesus offers no proof other than his own authority. So in Matthew 5 Jesus comments on the Old Testament or Jewish interpretations of it six times in the chapter,
saying, "You have heard that it was said , but I tell you
Father's House - ) are given as a direct
saying of Jesus, ‘Make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise. The essential thought in the
saying is simply that the believer will enter after death into that perfect communion with God which is impossible under the conditions of this world. ’ The
saying in the Gospel declares that there will be room for all these separate mansions within the one ‘Father’s house
Lamb of God (2) - Before giving Holy Communion during or outside of Mass, the priest elevates a particle of the Host before the faithful,
saying "Ecce Agnus Dei, ecce qui tollit peccata mundi; Domine non sum dignus," etc
Fare, Farewell - In the papyri, besides
saying goodbye, the stronger meaning is found of getting rid of a person (Moulton and Milligan)
Catechumens - Some days before baptism they went veiled; and it was customary to touch their ears,
saying, Ephatha, 1:e
Stephen - He applied these two points to the Jews of his time by
saying that they were mistaken in thinking God dwelt in the Jerusalem temple, and that their rejection of Christ was in keeping with the stubbornness of their forefathers (
Acts 7:48-53)
Hymenaeus - "Erred concerning the truth,
saying that the resurrection is past already, overthrowing the faith of some" (
2 Timothy 2:17-18)
Camel - Jeremiah thus described the sins of Israel
saying they were as a swift she-camel, running wild (
Jeremiah 2:23 )
Grass - ...
It is a coincidence undesigned, and therefore a mark of genuineness, that by three evangelists the "grass" is noticed in the miraculous feeding of the 5,000; John (
John 6:10)
saying, "there was much grass in the place" (a notable circumstance in Palestine, where grass is neither perennial nor universal; the latter rain and sunshine stimulate its rapid growth, but the scorching summer soon withers it and leaves the hills bare); Mark (
Mark 6:39), with his usual graphic vividness, mentioning "the green grass"; Matthew (
Matthew 14:19) simply stating Christ's command to "sit down on the grass
Weight - ...
Isaiah 26:7 (a) GOD is well acquainted with every detail of our lives, and He knows the value of what we are doing, what we are
saying, where we are going, and our manner of life
Korah - He with Dathan and Abiram headed the rebellion against Moses and Aaron,
saying that they took too much upon themselves, whereas all the people were holy
Benediction - Hence benediction is the act of
saying grace before or after meals
Gad - Zilpah brought a son, whom Leah called Gad,
saying, "A troop cometh
Stephen - ...
The results of Stephen's death illustrates the
saying of Tertrullian, "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church,"
Acts 8:1,4 11:19-21
Sign of the Cross - The ordinary method is to put the right hand to the forehead, and to the breast, and to the left and the right shoulder,
saying: "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
Save - He cried,
saying Lord, save me
Transfiguration, the - "And there came a voice out of the cloud,
saying, This isMy beloved Son, hear Him
Murder (2) - With this
saying of Jesus may be compared one of Mohammed, ‘Whosoever shall say to his brother, Thou unbeliever, one of the two shall surfer as an unbeliever
Profit - ), but in one great
saying the appeal to what may be termed the business instincts is direct: ‘What shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?’
Matthew 16:26 (=
Mark 8:36, Luke 9:25)
Foolishness - —In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus points out the grave sin of
saying to our brother, ‘Thou fool’ (μωρέ,
Matthew 5:22). When He likened His critics to children in the market-place who would play at neither a sad nor a merry game (
Matthew 11:16-19), was He not
saying in His heart, ‘Ye fools’? But anger and contempt are the sources of the former; wonder and pity, mingled with indignation, shape the latter
Elisha - Elisha cast the cruse into the spring,
saying,"Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more, death, or barren land. So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the
saying of Elisha
Unwritten Sayings - UNWRITTEN
sayingS . The name Agrapha or ‘Unwritten
sayings,’ is applied to
sayings ascribed to Jesus which are not found in the true text of the canonical Gospels. That some genuine
sayings of the Lord not recorded by the Evangelists should linger in the oral tradition of the early Church is only what we should expect, but of the extant Agrapha it is only a small number that meet the tests of textual criticism, or satisfy the requirements of moral probability. It is significant of the value of the canonical Gospels as historical records that outside of them there are so few ‘sayings of Jesus’ that could possibly be accepted as conveying a veritable tradition of His actual words. The Unwritten
sayings may be classified as follows: ...
1. To this list must be added the
sayings of Jesus in
Mark 16:15-18 and
John 8:7 ;
John 8:11 , the conclusion of Mk. ]'>[4] gives the striking
saying:...
‘On the same day he saw one working on the Sabbath, and said to him, Man, if thou knowest what thou doest, blessed art thou; but if thou knowest not, thou art accursed and a transgressor of the law. In the opinion of some commentators,
James 1:12 ‘the crown of life which the Lord promised to them that love him,’ is ‘a semi-quotation of some
saying of Christ’s. Peter in Gethsemane, adds: ‘For the
saying had also preceded, that no one untempted should attain to the heavenly kingdoms. Special interest attaches to the ‘Sayings of Jesus’ unearthed at Oxyryhnchus by Messrs. The first series of these, published in 1897, contained some
sayings that have Gospel parallels, but the following strike a note of their own:...
‘Jesus saith, Except ye fast to the world, ye shall in no wise find the kingdom of God; and except ye make the sabbath a real sabbath, ye shall not see the Father. ’...
More recently the same scholars discovered another papyrus with additional ‘Sayings’ of Jesus. A good account of this second series of ‘Sayings’ with the Gr. Here again some of the ‘Sayings’ have Gospel parallels, while others bear a more original character. ’...
Of the value of the Oxyrhynchus ‘Sayings’ very different estimates have been formed
Word - utterance or
saying that may refer to a single work, the entire law, the gospel message, or even Christ. It can refer to a spoken utterance, a
saying, a command, a speech, a story—linguistic communication in general. ...
Jesus' message of the coming kingdom can be called a “word” (
Mark 2:2 ;
Mark 4:33 ;
Luke 5:1 ) as can His individual
sayings (
Matthew 26:75 ;
Luke 22:61 ;
John 7:36 ). Even today a couple can make or create a marriage by
saying “I do
Poverty of Spirit - Though formally an addition to the actual
saying of Jesus, they were felt to be necessary for the right translation of an Aramaic term which had come to bear a peculiar shade of meaning. ’ The truth of the
saying may be best illustrated by the historical fact that our Lord’s earliest disciples were drawn, almost wholly, from the poorer class. What, then, is the religious temper, the ‘poverty of spirit,’ which was associated in our Lord’s mind with actual poverty? When we examine the
saying in the light of the general context of the teaching of Jesus, we can discover three main ideas which are implied in it. By whatever process the qualifying words were introduced into the
saying, they correctly interpret the real thought of Jesus, and are necessary to guard it from misconstruction
Christ, Christology - ...
A key passage that summarizes the risen Christ's own interpretation of his completed messiahship is the Emmaus
saying of
Luke 24:25-27 : "'How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?' And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. The following
sayings describe Jesus' messianic understanding as he sees the power of God at work in his own ministry and in those who accept him. ...
The critical consensus of those
sayings that imply Jesus' messianic self-understanding also includes his appeal to discipleship, typical of which is
Luke 9:62 : "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God. The
saying would lead one to conclude that the challenge of the proclamation arises from the intention of Jesus the proclaimer. This is borne out in the unusual
saying of
Luke 9:60 , "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God"; and the exhortation of
Matthew 7:13 a (cf. A similar point is made in the
saying in
Luke 14:11 , "For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted, " which implies that only one who is conscious of speaking with the authority of God can announce that all must and will be in accordance with the values of God. ...
The
sayings of Jesus agreed on by a consensus of scholars as historically authentic continue with three attitude utterances. The originality of Jesus is implicit in the
saying and can come only from one who is convinced that he has the authority to challenge traditional ways of thinking. Jesus' use of the personal pronoun "I" in the formula "I tell you the truth" lends additional weight not only to the demand but to the view that Jesus is indwelling the
saying with an intentional authority as he understands himself to have the right to make demands that only God has the right to make. ...
Yet another of the contrasts generally accepted as genuine is Jesus'
saying, "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" (
Matthew 5:44 ). This
saying goes against the grain of rabbinic and sectarian Judaism by insisting that it is one's own attitudes and behavior, not external practices relating to foods, which defile a person. When the
saying is placed in the context of Jesus' inaugurated kingdom proclamation, one sees that the kingly Messiah requires a new attitude and conversion of thought in regard to himself. Only one who is supremely self-confident about what is coming to pass through his present words and Acts, and about what will be brought to fruition in the future, could utter such
sayings as those of the mustard seed (
Mark 4:30-32 ), the leaven (
Matthew 13:33 ), the seed growing of itself (
Mark 4:26-29 ), the petition "your kingdom come" (
Matthew 6:10 ), and the prophecy "I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, IsaActs and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven" (
Matthew 8:11 ). What is remarkable about all these
sayings is the implied declaration of small beginnings, big endings
Isaac - God directed Abraham to comply,
saying that it would be through Isaac that his descendants would be reckoned (
Genesis 21:8-13 ; compare
Romans 9:7 )
Add - , Ruth summoned God’s curse upon herself by
saying, “The Lord do so to me, and more also
, if ought but death part thee and me,” or literally, “Thus may the Lord do to me, and thus may he add, if …” (
Ruth 1:17; cf
Jackal - At the present day the Bedouin threaten an enemy with death by
saying they will ‘throw his body to the jackals
Belshazzar - This agrees with his
saying to Daniel that if he could interpret the writing he should be the third in the kingdom
Baptism - Baptism is administered by pouring water on the head of the candidate,
saying at the same time, ...
I baptize thee, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
Dark - Obscure not easily understood or explained as a dark passage in an author a dark
saying
Stephen - "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and
saying, Lord Jesus, receive, my spirit; and he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge
Wise - Dictated or guided by wisdom containing wisdom judicious well adapted to produce good effects applicable to things as a wise
saying a wise scheme or plan wise conduct or management a wise determination
Protevangelium - , on the contrary, uses παροιμία in the sense of ‘figurative language, allegory’ (
John 10:6), or ‘dark
saying’ (
John 16:26;
John 16:29) rather than ‘proverb’; perhaps, ‘figure’ best represents his use of the word
Teilo, Bishop of Llandaff - 243) is probably safest in
saying that his period in that see ended in its first stage with the appearance of the plague
Undressed Cloth - In the parallel passage
Luke 5:36, where, however, a somewhat different turn is given to the
saying, ἱμάτιον καινόν (‘new garment’) occurs instead of ῥάκος ἄγναφον. ’ For the religious significance of the
saying see esp
Gideon - The men of the city desired his death, but his father protected him,
saying, Let Baal plead for himself, and symbolically named Gideon JERUBBAAL, 'Let Baal plead. ...
Israel desired Gideon to rule over them, but he refused,
saying, "The Lord shall rule over you
Philip the Apostle - ...
In
John 12:20-22 Greek proselytes coming to Jerusalem for the Passover, attracted by Philip's Greek name, and his residence in Galilee bordering on the Gentiles, applied to him of the twelve,
saying, We would see Jesus. ...
This
saying sank deep into Philip's mind; hence when Jesus said, cf6 "if ye had known Me ye should have known the Father, henceforth ye know and have seen Him," Philip in childlike simplicity asked,"Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us" (
John 14:8-11)
Alpha And Omega - Kohler) have given another explanation of its use as a title for God, calling it the hellenized form of a well-known
saying, ‘The Seal of God is Emeth (אֱמֶת = ‘truth’), a word containing first, middle, and last letters of the Heb, alphabet (cf. ) probably refers to this
saying (cf
Temperance - , for those who are to rescue the victims of strong drink, for we all know that example is far more powerful than precept; we are far more likely to be able to help those who have fallen into this abyss by
saying to them, ‘Do as we do,’ than by
saying, ‘Do as we tell you. The Jesus of the Gospels presents to us a life which is the very embodiment of temperance, a life of perfect self-restraint, of complete self-mastery; a life free from excess on the one hand and defect on the other, well-balanced, well-proportioned, without flaw, without spot, perfect in all its parts; a life which had for its object the glory of God, from the time when He came into the world,
saying, ‘Lo, I come to do thy will, O my God’ (
Hebrews 10:7), to the time when, having finished all, He exclaimed with the voice of a conqueror, ‘I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do’ (
John 17:4)
Temperance - , for those who are to rescue the victims of strong drink, for we all know that example is far more powerful than precept; we are far more likely to be able to help those who have fallen into this abyss by
saying to them, ‘Do as we do,’ than by
saying, ‘Do as we tell you. The Jesus of the Gospels presents to us a life which is the very embodiment of temperance, a life of perfect self-restraint, of complete self-mastery; a life free from excess on the one hand and defect on the other, well-balanced, well-proportioned, without flaw, without spot, perfect in all its parts; a life which had for its object the glory of God, from the time when He came into the world,
saying, ‘Lo, I come to do thy will, O my God’ (
Hebrews 10:7), to the time when, having finished all, He exclaimed with the voice of a conqueror, ‘I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do’ (
John 17:4)
Sychar - he identifies them,
saying that the form Sychar is due to a scribal error
Esther - She therefore called all the Jews in Shushan to fast with her three days and nights,
saying she would go in to the king unbidden, and if she perished she perished
Christ: the Preacher's Great Theme - The best sermon is that which is fullest of Christ, A Welsh minister, when preaching at the chapel of my dear brother Jonathan George, was
saying that Christ was the sum and substance of the gospel, and he broke out into the following story:–A young man had been preaching in the presence of a venerable divine, and after he had done, he foolishly went to the old minister and enquired, 'What do you think of my sermon, sir?' 'A very poor sermon indeed,' said he
Taxes - When questioned about paying the poll tax, Jesus surprised His questioners by
saying that the law should be obeyed (
Mark 12:13 )
Leaven - ...
This antique view of leaven as (in Plutarch’s words) ‘itself the offspring of corruption, and corrupting the mass of dough with which it has been mixed,’ is reflected in the figurative use of ‘leaven’ in such passages as
Matthew 16:6 ||, and especially in the proverbial
saying twice quoted by St
Mitre - ’ This passage is our warrant for
saying that the headdress prescribed for the high priest in the Priests’ Code, consisting of mitre and diadem, is intended to signify that the high priest shall unite in his person the highest office in both Church and State
Naked (And Forms) - ...
Job 1:21 (c) This is one way of
saying that he came into the world owning nothing, and possessing nothing
Quails - The Psalmist hath made a beautiful observation upon this self-will of Israel, and the lawful consequence of it, when
saying, "they lusted exceedingly, or as the words are, they lusted a lust in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert
Pontius Pilate - His washing his hands before the multitude, and
saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it," is evidence that he had a bad conscience, he senselessly condemned himself by his own lips
Fat - And JEHOVAH so strikingly
saying, "all the fat is the Lord's," (
Leviticus 3:16) sets forth that Christ is the Christ of God
Circumcision - To be circumcised, therefore, after Christ was come, was in effect denying that Christ Was come, and by that act
saying, We are looking for his coming
Mephibosheth - ...
When Absalom revolted, Ziba brought presents to David, and slandered Mephibosheth,
saying that he sought the kingdom
Pollute - Perhaps the writer is simply
saying that in contrast to the apparent non-Godfearing attitude expressed by Cain, the generation beginning with Seth and his son Enosh was known for its God-fearing way of life
Deacon - " And the
saying pleased the whole multitude; and they (the multitude) chose Stephen, and six others, whom they set before the Apostles, &c
Nazarites - But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets,
saying, Prophesy not
Dreams - The Prophet Jeremiah exclaims against impostors who pretended to have had dreams, and abused the credulity of the people: "They prophesy lies in my name,
saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed
Zebulun - In the last words of Moses, he joins Zebulun and Issachar together,
saying, "Rejoice Zebulun, in thy going out, and Issachar in thy tents
Openly - 1: παρρησία (Strong's #3954 — Noun Feminine — parrhesia — par-rhay-see'-ah ) "freedom of speech, boldness," is used adverbially in the dative case and translated "openly" in
Mark 8:32 , of a
saying of Christ; in
John 7:13 , of a public statement; in
John 11:54 , of Christ's public appearance; in
John 7:26 ; 18:20 , of His public testimony; preceded by the preposition en, "in,"
John 7:4 , lit
Sadducees - That is not
saying that no priest could be a Pharisee or a Scribe. Neither is it
saying that all the priests were Sadducees
Scripture - 4; but here it is a Gospel citation of a
saying of Christ: ‘As it is written. 4 a
saying of Christ is cited as Scripture
A - Before participles, it may be a contraction of the Celtic ag, the sign of the participle of the present tense as, ag-radh,
saying a
saying, a going
Meribah - ) The designation which Moses gave the place at Rephidim where Israel, just before they reached Sinai in the second year after leaving Egypt, did chide with Moses, "give us water that we may drink," and tempted (from whence came the other name Massah) Jehovah,
saying "is Jehovah among us or not?" (
Exodus 17:7; compare as to the sin,
Matthew 4:7
Casual Security - So many of our hearers are
saying, 'Oh, yes! what the preacher says is well enough, but you know we can repent whenever we like; we have power to obtain the grace of God whenever we please; we know the way; have we not been told over and over again simply to trust Christ?–and we can do that whenever we please–we are safe enough
Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani - ...
This
saying of Jesus from the cross strikes a dissonant chord for some Christians, because it seems to indicate that Jesus felt forsaken by the Father
Tribute - ...
The temple offerings, for which the half shekels were collected, through Him become needless to His people also; hence they, by virtue of union with Him in justification and sanctification, are secondarily included in His pregnant
saying, "then are the children (not merely the SON) free" (
John 8:35-36;
Galatians 4:3-7;
Galatians 5:1)
Tree - But in the Septuagint , where ξύλον is used for עַץ, ‘tree,’ the phrase ‘hang on a tree’ occurs several times (
Genesis 40:19, Deuteronomy 21:22, Joshua 10:26); and the dread
saying, κατηραμένος ὑπὸ θεοῦ πᾶς κρεμάμενος ἐπὶ ξύλον (‘maledictus a Deo est qui pendet in ligno’), seems to have been applied very early in the Christian Church-apparently many years before the writing of the Epistle to the Galatians-with a deep theological meaning as well as a poignant pathos, to the death of Christ, whose Cross then came to be commonly known as ‘the tree
Helps - 386) is mistaken in
saying that this sense of ‘helping’ is ‘unknown in classical Greek’: it is frequent in papyri, in petitions to the Ptolemys (G
Morning - ’s words rendered in Revised Version NT 1881, OT 1885 ‘late on the sabbath,’ should be rendered ‘late from the sabbath,’ which is equivalent to
saying ‘after the sabbath
Sealing - So also when Peter preached to Cornelius and those gathered with him, while he was
saying "Whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins
Boanerges - ]'>[4] If the Evangelist be right in
saying that the original title meant ‘sons of thunder,’ we must suppose that Βοανη or Βοανε is due to inaccurate transliteration of בִּנִי, or to a conflation of two readings with a single vowel (see Dalm
Bank - ...
There is an apocryphal
saying of Christ which may be connected with this parable. But it may perhaps he looked at rather as connected with the stewardship of gifts and talents by the Lord’s disciples, finding its parallel in such
sayings as
Luke 16:12 ‘If ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?’ The duty of a timid servant may be to use his gifts under the guidance and authority of others, but growing experience might advance him to be a τρατεζίτης himself, who is able to trade boldly with that which has been entrusted to him
Habakkuk - At the close, while faith has to wait for the blessing he rejoices in God,
saying, "I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation
Abner - He was with Saul when David took away the spear and cruse of water while they slept: for which David reproached him,
saying he was worthy of death because he had not more faithfully guarded his master
Ear - The Lord reveals His words to the “ears” of his prophets: “Now the Lord had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came,
saying …” (
Litany - Chrysostom derives the custom from the primitive ages, when the priest began and uttered by the Spirit some things fit to be prayed for, and the people joined the intercessions,
saying, "We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord
Caiaphas - " On hearing these words, Caiaphas rent his clothes,
saying, "What farther need have we of witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy
Think - He thought within himself,
saying, what shall I do? ...
Luke 12
Election, - Cyrus, who was called by God to be His 'shepherd' to work out His will,
saying to Jerusalem, "Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid
Proverb - (3) The fact that a wise
saying was meant for the wise encouraged the use of elliptical form . (4) The obscurity referred to was sometimes made the leading feature and motive of the proverb, and it was then called an ‘enigma’ or ‘ dark
saying ’ (
Psalms 49:4 ,
Proverbs 1:6 ;
Proverbs 30:15-31 )
Joannes Cappadox, Bishop of Constantinople - The patriarch John, having meanwhile gained time for thought and consultation, came out and mounted the pulpit,
saying, "There is no need of disturbance or tumult; nothing has been done against the faith; we recognize for orthodox all the councils which have confirmed the decrees of Nicaea, and principally these three—Constantinople, Ephesus, and the great council of Chalcedon. John wrote
saying that he received the four general councils, and that the names of Leo and of Hormisdas himself had been put in the diptychs. The emperor sent an account of the proceedings throughout the provinces and the ambassadors forwarded their report to Rome,
saying that there only remained the negotiations with Antioch
Faith (2) - As soon as the emperor left, the soldier laid down his gun,
saying, 'He may take it who will,' and instead of returning to his comrades, he approached the group of staff officers
Galilee - " This
saying of theirs was "not historically true, for two prophets at least had arisen from Galilee, Jonah of Gath-hepher, and the greatest of all the prophets, Elijah of Thisbe, and perhaps also Nahum and Hosea
Eldad - The context favors KJV When "the (so Hebrew for a) young man" reported it at the tabernacle, and Joshua begged Moses to forbid them, he refused
saying, "enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets," etc
Doors -
Job 3:10 (a) This is a graphic way of
saying that Job was sorry that he was born, that he proceeded out of his mother's womb, and was delivered as all babies are
Forty Martyrs, the - His mother, however, who was present, herself placed him in the executioner's cart,
saying: "Go, my son, finish this happy voyage with thy comrades, that thou mayst not be the last presented to God
Beloved - The other occasion of the word is that record of another great revealing moment of His life—the Transfiguration, when two of the three tell of ‘a voice out of the cloud (saying), This is my beloved son, hear ye him’ (
Matthew 17:5, Mark 9:7; in the ||
Luke 9:36 the true reading is ἐκλελεγμένος)
Flesh - Thus in the instance of the sons of Jacob, when some were for killing Joseph, Judah restrained from the deed,
saying, "What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood? Let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh
Beloved - The other occasion of the word is that record of another great revealing moment of His life—the Transfiguration, when two of the three tell of ‘a voice out of the cloud (saying), This is my beloved son, hear ye him’ (
Matthew 17:5, Mark 9:7; in the ||
Luke 9:36 the true reading is ἐκλελεγμένος)
Reproach - In
Psalms 69:10 the righteous sufferer is represented as speaking to God and as
saying that he has to bear the reproaches uttered against God. Paul here puts the words into our Lord’s lips, who is conceived as speaking, not to God, but to a man, and as
saying that in enduring reproaches He was bearing, not His own sufferings, but those of others
Goat - " (
Isaiah 53:6) And Jesus is no less represented as
saying, "Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. And hence the prophet is supposed to allude when
saying, "though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool
Childhood - ...
Our most profitable reflections on the childhood of our Lord, however, are best summarized in the
saying of Irenaeus, to the effect that, in completely participating in the conditions of human life, He became a child for the sake of children, and by His own experience of childhood He has sanctified it (adv. ...
(a) In the former instance the untimely interposition of the disciples leads to the
saying, ‘Of such is the kingdom of God. ’ In Mark and Luke this is followed by a further solemn
saying—‘Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall in no wise enter therein. …’ And no doubt in the second of these
sayings the manner in which men are to receive the kingdom is set forth with emphasis. The first
saying has hardly its due weight given to it if we stop here. But the
saying of Jesus, as it stands, surely implies that the kingdom comprises not only the childlike, but little children qua children as well. The same truth is emphasized in a
saying which in varying form is found twice over in each of the Synoptics—the man who wishes to be first shall be last; the man willing to be least shall be great. And as here, so in the more extended
sayings in Matthew 18, whatever the reference to childlike and lowly-minded disciples in general, the words of Jesus must apply to children themselves. Whether this remarkable
saying be understood as referring to guardian angels or to representative angels (in some way corresponding to the Zoroastrian fravashis or ‘spiritual counterparts’—see art. The closing
saying of this group (vv
Proverbs - —It is a
saying of the Rabbis that ‘the Law spoke in the tongue of the children of men. The Oriental mind delights in proverbs, and Jesus, in His gracious desire to reach the hearts of His hearers, did not disdain to weave into His discourse the homely and often humorous
sayings which were current in His day. He spied the woman returning in haste from the town accompanied by an eager throng (
John 4:28-30), and He broke out, ‘Ye have a
saying (λέγετε, cf. Flores: ‘Vulgare proverbium est, quod nunia familiaritas parit contemptum’); and the
saying of the witty Frenchman that ‘no man is a hero to his valet de chambre. There is no
saying of Jesus more astonishing than His answer to the disciple who sought permission to go and bury his father ere casting in his lot with Him: ‘Leave the dead to bury their own dead’ (
Matthew 8:21-22 =
Luke 9:59-60). The OT story of Elisha’s call from the plough (
1 Kings 19:19-21) seems to have leapt into His mind and suggested His reply, which is an adaptation of a common
saying: ‘A ploughman must bend to his work, or he will draw a crooked furrow’ (Plin. Damis of Nineveh, the Boswell of Apollonius of Tyana, was once sneered at for the diligence wherewith he recorded his master’s
sayings and doings, taking note of every trifle. Hillel: ‘He who increases not, decreases,’ which means that one who does not improve his knowledge, loses it (Taylor,
sayings of the Fathers, i. Jesus employs the
saying in this sense in
Matthew 13:12, Mark 4:25 =
Luke 8:18. How comes it that Greek and Latin
sayings were current among the Jews? The Jewish attitude toward pagan culture was one of bitter hostility. Celsus charged Him with borrowing from Plato His
saying about the difficulty of a rich man entering into the kingdom of heaven, and spoiling it in the process (ib. Is it not reasonable to suppose that they would introduce into the Holy Land many a pithy
saying which they had learned in the countries of their adoption?...
David Smith
Conscience - ” Paul completed the sentence by
saying: “yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord
Small - Notice
2 Kings 5:14: “Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the
saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child
Sarah - Twice he deceived people by
saying Sarah was his sister
Irony - ” Job was really
saying that his so-called comforters were not as important or wise as they thought they were
Macedonia - The first country in Europe where Paul preached the gospel, in obedience to the vision of a man of Macedonia,
saying "come over and help us
Leading - But, as this
saying is placed by St
Letter - , that the writer was not personally known to the community which he was addressing; we should not therefore be justified in
saying that the letter-form is a mere artifice
Felix - At the second Paul, before Felix and Drusilla, Felix's Jewish wife, who was curious to "hear him concerning the faith of Christ," so reasoned of "righteousness and temperance (both of which Felix outraged as a governor and a man, having seduced from her husband) and judgment to come" that Felix "trembled" before his prisoner, but deferred repentance,
saying, "when I have a convenient season I will call for thee
Seraphim - ...
Besides praising God they are secondly the medium of imparting spiritual fire from God to His prophet; when Isaiah laments alike his own and the people's uncleanness of lips, in contrast to the seraphim chanting in alternate responses with pure lips God's praises, and (
Isaiah 6:5-7) with a deep sense of the unfitness of his own lips to speak God's message to the people, one of the seraphim flew with a live coal which he took from off the altar of burnt offering in the temple court, the fire on it being that which God at first had kindled (
Leviticus 9:24), and laid it upon Isaiah's mouth,
saying, "lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away and thy sin purged
Adam - When questioned by God, Adam laid the blame on Eve, ungratefully
saying, "the woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat
Adam - When questioned by God, Adam laid the blame on Eve, ungratefully
saying, "the woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat
Can - This is a hard
saying who can hear it? John 6
Obscurity - The teaching about the eternal food of His flesh and blood for the life of the world was felt to be ‘a hard
saying’ (
John 6:60)
Touch -
Revelation 1:17 ‘He laid his right hand
upon me,
saying, Fear not’); the touch of blessing vouchsafed to the children brought by their mothers (
Matthew 19:15 ἐπιθεὶς αὐτοῖς τὰς χεῖρας). ‘Then touched he their eyes,
saying, According to your faith be it unto you’ (
Matthew 9:29). This is the record of our Lord’s
saying to Mary Magdalene: ‘Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended unto the Father,’—a passage of which the interpretations are nearly as numerous as the commentators. —as though our Lord were
saying, ‘Keep not on touching me, making sure of me in a selfish rapture, for the duty of the moment calls thee to be a witness to others; handle me not, but go to my brethren, and say unto them’? And if it be objected, as by Godet, that on that view the following words, ‘I am not yet ascended,’ present’ absolutely no sense,’ the answer is that the hour was coming later, when, after the gift of the Spirit, close and intimate communion with Christ could be given along with the work of witness and service,—when it would be possible for a soul to be both in contact with the living Lord and also a messenger for Him,—when (in other words) the disciple could be in ‘touch’ with Christ by His Spirit and also ‘go’ on His errands
John the Baptist - He pointed him out to his disciples,
saying, "Behold the Lamb of God
Apollos - into a party watchword,
saying, "I am of Apollos," so popular was he
Bethel - God thus gave to Jacob the apprehension that the house of God on earth — the gate of heaven — was to be connected with him and his seed, and afterwards God acknowledged the place and the name,
saying, "I am the God of Beth-el,"
Genesis 31:13
Amen - And the prophet Isaiah (
Isaiah 65:16) describes the believer in the gospel church, as
saying, That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; that is, the God Amen
Amaziah - He therefore sent to defy the king of Israel,
saying, "Come, let us look one another in the face
Pietists - "In so
saying, Master, thou reproachest us also
Ephod - Spencer and Cunaeus are of opinion, that the Jewish kings had a right to wear the ephod, because David, coming to Ziklag, and finding that the Amalekites had plundered the city, and carried away his and the people's wives, ordered Abiathar, the high priest, to bring him the ephod, which being done, David inquired of the Lord,
saying, "Shall I pursue after this troop?"...
1 Samuel 30:8
Apple Tree - ...
To the manner of serving up these citrons in his court, Solomon seems to refer, when he says, "A word fitly spoken is like golden citrons in silver baskets;" whether, as Maimonides supposes, in baskets wrought with open work, or in salvers curiously chased, it nothing concerns us to determine; the meaning is, that an excellent
saying, suitably expressed, is as the most acceptable gift in the fairest conveyance
Mysia - The absence of landmarks between the land of the Mysians and that of the Phrygians gave rise to the
saying, χωρὶς τὰ Μυσῶν καὶ Φρυγῶν ὁρίσματα
Abimelech - Abraham, fearing that the Philistine king Abimelech might kill him in order to take Sarah for his own wife, preserved his life by
saying that Sarah was his sister (
Genesis 20:1-2;
Genesis 20:13; cf
Oracle - Cyril has vigorously refuted,
saying, that he never could have offered such, but from an unwillingness to acknowledge, that, when the world had received the light of Christ, the dominion of the devil was at an end. For example, such was the voice that was heard at the baptism of Jesus Christ,
saying, This is my beloved Son, &c
Greatness - This is admittedly a difficult
saying. ...
One more
saying of Jesus must be included in our study
Sadducees - had two disciples, who in turn taught disciples his
saying "be not like servants who serve their master for the sake of reward, but serve without view of reward"; and that the disciples reasoned, "if our fathers had known that there is another world, and a resurrection of the dead, they would not have spoken thus"; so they separated themselves from the law (and denied there is another world and a resurrection); "so there arose two sects, the Zadokites from Zadok, and Baithusians from Baithos. " But this does not justify the modern notion that Zadok himself misinterpreted Antigonus'
saying; still the Sadducees might claim this Zadok as their head
Community of Goods - In
Luke 6:20;
Luke 6:24 our Lord is reported as
saying, ‘Blessed are ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Peter is reported as
saying to Ananias: ‘Whiles it remained, did it not remain thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thy power?’ (
Acts 5:4)
Fellow - Hence Jesus himself, by the spirit of prophecy, under the ministry of a prophet, is introduced as
saying, "Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me, are for signs and wonders in Israel; from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. ...
And while the Lord Jesus himself bears testimony to the fellowship and equality between himself and his Father,
saying, "I and my Father are one," (
John 10:30) none after this would fancy fellow meant neighbour
Angels - "The angel of God" spake unto Jacob
saying, "I am the God of Bethel. "The angel of Jehovah" spake to Abraham
saying, "By myself have I sworn," etc
Separate - “When they had sent unto the home of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the Lord, And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets,
saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself
, as I have done these so many years?” (
saying, Prophesy not” (Amos 2:11-12)
Osee, Book of - Twice does Our Lord repeat the familiar
saying: "I will have mercy and not sacrifice
Galilee, Sea of - He stilled its tempest,
saying to the storm that swept over it, "Peace, be still" (
Matthew 8:23-27 ;
Mark 7:31-35 ); and here also he showed himself after his resurrection to his disciples (John 21 )
Say, Speak, Answer - Often, however, there is a much fuller sense where God’s
saying effects the thing spoken (cf
Exaltation (2) - It is better to take the lowest room, and wait till the host shall give their proper place to one’s virtue and dignity, by
saying, ‘Friend, come up higher’ (
Luke 14:10). In the
sayings in the Gospel of John there are many lofty statements as to His heavenly glory (cf
Tongue - This vivid language is not adequately characterized by
saying, with Mayor, ‘The tongue is of course merely the innocent instrument employed by the free will of man’ (The Epistle of St
Exorcism - By contrast, the exorcisms of Jesus in the Synoptics involved His command without reference to other divine beings (
Mark 1:25 ;
Mark 9:25 ) and with only a single reference to anything like technique in
saying about the boy the disciples could not exorcise that the demon involved could only be cast out by prayer (
Mark 9:29 )
Herodians - Yet, such is man's perversity, they had the impudence soon after at Jesus' trial before Pilate to say, "We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar,
saying that He Himself is Christ a king" (
Luke 23:2)
Hosea, Book of - Twice does Our Lord repeat the familiar
saying: "I will have mercy and not sacrifice
Kenosis - In like fashion, when Paul said that Christ emptied Himself in
Philippians 2:5-11 , he may have been
saying that Jesus gave Himself sacrifically for the sake of others without intending to say anything about what attributes Christ gave up
Oaths - Bible writers could even use human images to describe God,
saying the Lord swears by His right hand (
Isaiah 62:8 )
Ant - " The Arabs put one in the new-born infant's hand,
saying, "May he prove clever!" Others take it from namal , Hebrew "cut off," the body being cut into segments, joined by but a slight thread
Adonijah - Foolishly indulged by his father, who "had not displeased him at any time in
saying, Why hast thou done so?" Never crossed when young, he naturally expected to have his own way when old; and took it, to his father's grief in his old age, and to his own destruction
Bone - Closely related to this nuance is the use of ‛etsem for “human remains,” probably including a mummified corpse: “And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel,
saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence” (
Considerateness - —It was a
saying of St. The post-resurrection
sayings to Mary Magdalene (
John 20:15;
John 20:18), to St
Voice - In an extended nuance qôl signifies the thing said, even though it is written down: “Then he wrote a letter the second time to them,
saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice …” (
2 Kings 10:6)
Mary, the Mother of Jesus - Once afterwards Mary came with His 'brethren' desiring to speak with Him; but again a mysterious
saying declared that those who did the will of His Father were His brother, and sister, and mother. ...
No doubt Mary subsequently understood the depth of these
sayings when she came to learn what His death accomplished
Mount Zion - ) When we hear JEHOVAH
saying, "Behold, I lay in Zion, for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone
Tempt - ...
Note: "
James 1:13-15 seems to contradict other statements of Scripture in two respects,
saying (a) that 'God cannot be tempted with evil,' and (b) that 'He Himself tempteth no man
Cock - Parkhurst asks, "May not this name be as properly deduced from the Hebrew אור הלכת , the coming of the light, of which this ‘bird of dawning,' as Shakspeare calls him, gives such remarkable notice, and for doing which he was, among the Heathen, sacred to the sun, who in Homer is himself called αλεκτωρ ?" In
Matthew 26:34 , our Lord is represented as
saying, that before cock-crow, Peter should deny him thrice; so
Luke 22:34 , and
John 13:39
Almond Tree - To the forwardness of the almond tree there seems to be a reference in Jeremiah: "The word of the Lord came unto me,
saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree
Tongue - This vivid language is not adequately characterized by
saying, with Mayor, ‘The tongue is of course merely the innocent instrument employed by the free will of man’ (The Epistle of St
Mary - As soon as Elizabeth heard the voice of Mary, her child, John the Baptist, leaped in her womb; and she was filled with the Holy Ghost, and spake with a loud voice,
saying, "Blessed art thou among women,"...
&c. Then Mary praised God,
saying, "My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour," &c. Judas Iscariot murmured at this; but Jesus justified Mary in what she had done,
saying, that by this action she had prevented his embalmment, and in a manner had declared his death and burial, which were at hand
Atonement - ...
The New Testament The so-called ransom
saying, found in the Gospel of Mark (10:45; cf. the parallel
saying at
Matthew 20:28 ), has been much disputed as to its authenticity, but its theological content is clear. Like many of the teachings of Jesus, the
saying dramatically extends the answer to an immediate question or problem (that of the selfishness and pride of the apostles) to include something that no one would have linked to that problem (the ransom nature of the cross). The
saying of course primarily relates the death of Christ to the metaphor of service; giving his life is the greatest example of servanthood that can be imagined
Unconscious Faith - It is obvious that in
saying, ‘I know that Messias cometh’ (
John 4:25), the woman of Samaria had little consciousness of the real meaning of her words, yet her imperfect faith drew the disclosure, ‘I that speak unto thee am he. And there seems to be a similar recognition of a widespread unconscious faith which needs to he made conscious that it may be perfect, in the
saying, ‘Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must lead, and they shall hear my voice’ (
John 10:16). A still more remarkable recognition of an unconscious faith in Himself, in days long anterior to His manifestation in the world, is to be found in the
saying, ‘Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it, and was glad’ (
John 8:56). Not Abraham alone, but all the prophets in Israel, and even all ‘they that feared the Lord, and thought upon his name,’ rejoiced to see Christ’s day, and saw it with joy; for all of them are included in the Divine
saying, ‘They shall be mine in the day which I do make, even a peculiar treasure’ (
Malachi 3:16-17)
Sacrifice - ) "I spake not to your fathers, nor commanded them, at the time that I brought them out of Egypt, concerning the matters of burnt-offerings or sacrifices; but only this very thing commanded I them,
saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people. ) For I spake not to your fathers, nor commanded them, concerning burnt- offerings or sacrifices; but this thing I commanded them,
saying, Obey my voice
Vain - What He here condemns is the heathenish idea that a reluctant and ungracious Deity is to be worked upon by our
saying the same thing over and over again (cf. The true sense of our Lord’s
saying is set forth in one of Bp
Good - Ṭôb often characterizes a statement as an important assertion for salvation and prosperity (real or imagined): “Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt,
saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness” (
saying “nothing at all
Hardness of the Heart - ...
The explanation of
saying God hardened Pharaoh's heart seems to be that this is the way of punishment which comes as the consequence of his own initial self hardening
Illyricum - Paul contemplated a journey by Rome to Spain, he justified his desire for fresh fields by
saying that from Jerusalem and round unto Illyricum (καὶ κύκλῳ μέχρι τοῦ Ἰλλυρικοῦ) he had fully preached the gospel of Christ (
Romans 15:19)
Law of Christ - If we take this passage to refer to the Messiah, then we could paraphrase it by
saying that the Christ, when he comes, will teach God's law to the Gentiles ("the coastlands")
Water - This seems to be what Nicodemus, in the context, understood Jesus to be
saying
Picards - With this pretence, he taught, to give themselves up to all impurity,
saying, that therein consisted the liberty of the sons of God, and all those not of their sect were in bondage
Self-Suppression - To a certain hard
saying the Lord appends the caution, ‘He that is able to receive it, let him receive it’ (
Matthew 19:12). These and other
sayings which might be quoted display our Lord’s evident desire to develop rather than annihilate individuality
Burden - ...
Psalm 81:6 (b) This is a beautiful way of
saying that GOD sometimes leaves the load of grief, sorrow and trouble which weighs down the heart and spirit, but removes the person from under the weight of it
Testimony - (See
Exodus 16:33-34) Now, as the whole of this service plainly typified Christ, we cannot be at a loss to discover what is meant under the term of testimonies in this Psalm, when we hear the blessed speaker
saying, "Thy testimonies have I taken as mine heritage for ever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart
Cheerfulness - Paul is described as once
saying that his service has been with tears (
Acts 20:19;
Acts 20:31), and in his letter to Corinth confesses that he writes with many tears and with deep suffering and depression of spirit (
2 Corinthians 2:4), such utterances stand isolated among a multitude of phrases suggestive of rejoicing and exultation
Jehu - Meeting Jehonadab, he took him up in his chariot,
saying, "Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord
Avenge - … And Moses spake unto the people,
saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the Lord of Midian” (
Arsenius - " A very famous
saying of his referred to faults of the tongue: "often have I been sorry for having spoken—never for having been silent
Cloud - " (
Isaiah 4:5) When we consider the peculiarity of this cloud, when we read expressly who was in it, when we consider the wonderful progress of it in its ministry, then going before, and then shifting its station, as occasion required, and going behind, when we behold the striking account of its ministry, in the difference of its aspect of light to Israel, and darkness to the Egyptians, when we trace the history of it through all the wilderness dispensation of the church, and discover its blessed and beneficial influences to Israel, from Succoth even to Jordan, who but must exclaim, What hath God wrought! Surely, it is impossible for any reader, and every reader, to attend to the wonderful account without joining Moses, the man of God and
saying, "Happy art thou, O Israel! who is like unto thee, O people saved of the Lord?" (
Deuteronomy 33:29) Let the reader turn to those Scriptures, (
Exodus 13:21-22;
Exo 14:19-20;
Exo 16:10;
Numbers 12:5;
Deuteronomy 31:15;
Nehemiah 9:19;
1 Corinthians 10:1;
1Co 10:4) But when the reader hath paused over these Scriptures, and duly pondered the wonderous subject, I entreat him to carry on the blessed consideration (for it is, indeed, most blessed), as it concerns the Exodus, or going forth of the church of Jesus now
Cluster - And hence they had a
saying, that after the death of Jose Ben Joezen, a man of Tzereda, and Jose Ben Jochanan, a man of Jerusalem, the clusters ceased
Malachi - The answer is that they brought to the Lord that which was torn, the lame, and the sick, and had offered polluted bread upon Jehovah's altar: in effect
saying, "The table of the Lord is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible
Christ - Yet our translators, who would always say "the Baptist," have, it should, seem, studiously avoided
saying "the Christ
Girdle - Gracthus is introduced,
saying, "Those girdles which I carried out full of money when I went from Rome, I have, at my return from the province, brought again empty
Camel - " There is also a
saying of the same kind in the Koran: "The impious, who in his arrogancy shall accuse our doctrine of falsity, shall find the gates of heaven shut; nor shall he enter there, till a camel shall pass through the eye of a needle
Joash - Father of Gideon: he defended his son when he had thrown down the altar of Baal,
saying, If Baal "be a god, let him plead for himself
Joannes ii, Mercurius, Bishop of Rome - ), and now the Acoemetae , or "Sleepless Monks," of Constantinople argued from it in favour of the Nestorian position that Mary was not truly and properly the mother of God;
saying with reason that, if He Who suffered in the flesh was not of the Trinity, neither was He Who was born in the flesh
Maximus, Bishop of Jerusalem - 17), records the dramatic incident that the aged confessor Paphnutius of the Thebaid, whose mutilated form had attracted so much attention at Nicaea, when he saw Maximus vacillating, took him by the hand and led him over to the small band of Athanasius's supporters,
saying that it did not become those who bore the tokens of their sufferings for the faith to consort with its adversaries
Miltiades, 2nd Cent. Christian Writer - He begins by
saying that the anti-Montanist document mentioned Miltiades as having written against Montanus; and then, having given extracts from the document, goes on to give the account we have already used of the other works of Miltiades
Mustard - But the fact is, the
saying is proverbial (found as such in the Talmud and in the Koran), and in good proverbs there is often the suppressed note of poetic licence (cf
Unpardonable Sin - —The expression is not a Scriptural one, but rests partly upon a
saying of Jesus reported in different forms by all the Synoptists, and partly upon two analogous passages in Hebrews and one in 1 John. It is only with the
saying in the Gospels that we are directly concerned, but the passages in the Epistles must be glanced at as bearing upon our interpretation of Christ’s words, and something must be said also as to the place of the subject in Christian experience. connect the
saying with calumnious charges of the scribes and Pharisees, based upon our Lord’s action in curing demoniacs (
Matthew 12:22 ff. For there we find Him
saying of the man who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit that he ‘hath never forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin’ (
Mark 3:29 Revised Version NT 1881, OT 1885 )
Paul as the Chief of Sinners - " "This is a faithful
saying," says Paul, "and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. And when the enraged crowd were about to fall upon the soothsayer and tear him to pieces for
saying such things about their greatest saint, Socrates himself came forward and restrained their anger and confessed openly and said, "Ye men of Athens, let this truth-speaking man alone, and do him no harm. For myself, when I hear Paul
saying this that is in the text, and Luther, and Rutherford, and Bunyan, and Andrewes, and Edwards, and Brodie, it is with me as it was with John Bunyan's pilgrim in the valley of the shadow of death. "When Christian had travelled in this disconsolate condition some considerable time, he thought he heard the voice of a man, as going before him,
saying, Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear none ill, for Thou art with me
Saul - " The simple countryman was transformed into the king of Israel, a remarkable change suddenly took place in his whole demeanour, and the people said in their astonishment, as they looked on the stalwart son of Kish, "Is Saul also among the prophets?", a
saying which passed into a "proverb. " While pursuing the Philistines, Saul rashly adjured the people,
saying, "Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening. The people, however, interposed,
saying, "There shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground
Diognetus, Epistle to - scribe,
saying, "Thus I found a break in the copy before me also, it being very ancient. ) after a break in the middle of a sentence, the discourse points to martyrdoms as "signs," not of the return but "of the presence" of the Lord, as though
saying, "You see, He is still with us. It could not be complete till it had been carried further than merely
saying that "it was God Who implanted the Word," and that He did so "when the time came
Gospels, Apocryphal - The Gospels of this sort undertake to complete the account of Jesus’ life by supplying fictitious incidents, often by way of accounting for
sayings in the canonical Gospels. With the exception of a few
sayings, mostly from the Gospel according to the Hebrews, the teaching they contain is obviously a working up of that of the canonical Gospels, or clearly imagined. In the entire literature there are few
sayings attributed to Jesus that are at the same time authentic and extra-canonical (see Unwritten
sayings). , and that in general it was composed of material similar to that of the canonical Gospels, but contained also
sayings of Jesus which our canonical Gospels have not preserved for us. ...
‘In the Gospel according to the Hebrews … is the following story: “Behold, the Lord’s mother and His brethren were
saying to Him, John the Baptist baptizes unto the remission of sins; let us go and be baptized by him. ...
‘In the Hebrew Gospel, too, we read of the Lord
saying to the disciples, “And never,” said He, “rejoice, except when you have looked upon your brother in love. ...
The most important
sayings of Jesus which have come down from this Gospel are from the conversation of Jesus with Salome, given by Clement of Alexandria. ...
‘And why do not they who walk any way rather than by the Gospel rule of truth adduce the rest also of the words spoken to Salome? For when she said, “Therefore have I done well in that I have not brought forth,” as if it were not fitting to accept motherhood, the Lord replies,
saying, “Eat every herb, but that which hath bitterness eat not” ’ ( ib. ’ At the time of the resurrection the soldiers are said to have seen how ‘three men cams forth from the tomb, and two of them supported one, and the cross followed them; and of the two the head reached unto the heavens, but the head of him that was led by them overpassed the heavens; and they heard a voice from the heavens
saying, “Thou hast preached unto them that sleep. Jesus is represented as
saying, ‘I come to put an end to sacrifices, and unless ye cease from sacrificing, anger will not cease from you. ’ The same motive appears in its re-writing of
Luke 22:15 , where the
saying of Jesus is turned into a question requiring a negative answer. It is, however, not in the least improbable that Basilides, as the founder of a school, re-worked the canonical Gospels, something after the fashion of Tatian, into a continuous narrative containing
sayings of the canonical Gospels favourable to Gnostic tenets. According to Epiphanius, the work contained the
saying of Jesus, ‘Be approved money-changers. ...
( m ) The Logia , found by Grenfell and Hunt at Oxyrhynchus, contains a few
sayings, some like and some unlike the canonical Gospels
Womanliness - Lightfoot in loco quotes a
saying of Jesus from the Apocryphal Gospel of the Egyptians, which may be founded on this verse—‘Being asked by Salome when His kingdom should come, He is reported to have answered, “When the two shall be one, and the male with the female, neither male nor female. ” ’ This mystical
saying has its fulfilment in the character of Jesus
Caesar - 5, 10, 11, 12) for
saying that the friends of Octavius began to address him as ‘Caesar’ within a week or two of the Dictator’s assassination. This was the charge which they found it so easy to frame against Jesus when He and they were in the presence of Pilate: ‘forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and
saying that he himself is Christ, a king’ (
Luke 23:2)
Care - Matthew attaches the warning against care to the
saying, ‘No man can serve two masters … ye cannot serve God and mammon. it follows as a deduction from the parable spoken against covetousness and the closing
saying, ‘So is every one that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God
Job, Book of - When all Job's property and his sons and daughters were swept away, still he worshipped,
saying the Lord who gave was the Lord who had taken away; and he blessed the name of the Lord. Then, provoked by the suspicions and misjudgement of his friends, he falsely judged God,
saying, "God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked
Humility - In accordance with Augustine’s well-known
saying (quoted by Calvin, Institutio, bk. The great
saying which goes to the root of the matter—‘I am meek and lowly in heart’ (
Matthew 11:29), has been variously interpreted (see art. For, as a fine Jewish
saying puts it, ‘While God despises what is broken among the animals, He loves in man a broken heart. This astonishing incident left an ineffaceable impression (
1 Peter 5:5), and warranted the literal
saying: ‘I am in the midst of you as he that serveth’ (
Luke 22:27). It was a wholesome
saying of the Rabbis: ‘The disciple of the wise should have sufficient pride to stand in defence of the Law he represents
Thomas - In the conversation after the Supper, Thomas interjects the remark, ‘Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?’ (
John 14:5); and thereby elicits the great
saying, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life’ (
John 14:6)
Tongues - It had also to have meaning to the speaker, for he was not likely to be spiritually built up if he did not understand what he was
saying (
1 Corinthians 14:13-15)
Theophany - In the same passage when Moses begged God to show him His glory (
Exodus 33:18 ), the Lord graciously granted Moses a vision of Himself,
saying, “I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen” (
Exodus 33:23 NAS)
Oaths - ‘â¦
saying, The Lord make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire’ ⦠(
Jeremiah 29:22 ; cf
Verily - John makes Him in every instance reduplicate the formula,
saying ‘Verily, verily
Ananias - Violent tempered to such a degree that he caused Paul to be smitten on the mouth for
saying, "I have lived in all good conscience before God"; himself on the contrary "a whited wall
Ear - ...
Isaiah 50:4 (a) This passage is spoken prophetically of our Lord JESUS CHRIST is
saying that He was constantly listening for His Father's voice, and the messages from His GOD
Despondency - But why was the depression so great now in Gethsemane when He had looked forward to this from the beginning of His ministry,
saying in an early stage of it, ‘The Son of man must be lifted up’ (
John 3:14)? Part of the answer to this question must be that our Lord’s mind, being truly human, was liable to those often mysterious alternations of feeling which, in common men, we call changes of mood
Babblings - Emerson; ‘I cannot listen to what you are
saying for thinking of what you are’)
Arbitration - But His
saying goes far beyond the sphere of jurisprudence
Eating - When they have eaten, he takes the vessel of wine in his right hand,
saying as before "Blessed be thou, O Lord our God, the King of the world, who hast produced the fruit of the vine
Unperfect - ...
Let the reader remember, that Christ, under the Spirit of prophecy, is speaking in this Psalm of his substance, his body, and which in another Scripture, he is introduced as
saying to his Father "A body hast thou prepared me," (
Hebrews 10:5) compared with (
Psalms 40:6) Now in this Psalm also Christ is speaking to the Father, and saith: "Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect: and in this book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, (or as the margin of the Bible renders it what days, they should be fashioned,) when as yet there was none of them
Together - Goliath challenged the Israelites,
saying: “I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together” (
Soul; Self; Life - 3:2: “Many are
saying of my soul, // There is no deliverance for him in God” (NASB)
Go Away, Leave - 4:21: “And she named the child Ichabod,
saying, The glory is departed from Israel
Bless - Thus Moses instructed Aaron, and his descendants, to bless the congregation, "In this wise shall ye bless the children of Israel,
saying unto them, The Lord bless thee, and keep thee; the Lord make his face to shine upon thee; the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace,"
Numbers 4:23
Naaman - But, if so, the prophet would hardly have dismissed him with a blessing,
saying, "Go in peace,"
2 Kings 5:19
Ecclesiastes - He takes as his starting point a
saying that probably came from King Solomon, ‘Vanity of vanities, all is vanity’
Wealth (2) - These consist partly of
sayings peculiar to Lk. and partly of
sayings common to Lk. The following
sayings regarding wealth are peculiar to
Luke 1:53;
Luke 3:11;
Luke 4:18;
Luke 6:24-25;
Luke 12:13-21;
Luke 14:12-14;
Luke 14:33;
Luke 16:1-13;
Luke 16:19-31. The following are illustrations of
sayings common to Mt. The strongest
saying of Jesus against wealth, ‘It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God,’ is recorded by Mt. that we are indebted for the record of the
sayings, ‘Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth’ (
Luke 12:16-21), and ‘The poor have good tidings preached to them’ (
Mark 8:36-37,7). , who have preserved the
saying of our Lord in which He speaks of the blessedness of leaving lands (ἀγρούς) for His sake (
Matthew 19:29, Mark 10:29). reports incidents and
sayings the reverse of Ebionitic. to the contrast between poverty and wealth, and to
sayings of our Lord which seem to favour the poor, indicates a deep interest on the part of the writer in the problem of wealth and poverty. It is implied in His parting injunctions to His disciples (
Luke 22:35-36), and in the
saying, ‘Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness’ (
Luke 16:9), which also involve the possession and use of money. The same truth is implied in the petition, ‘Give us this day our daily bread’ (
Matthew 6:11, Luke 11:3), and in the
sayings: ‘If God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?’ (
Matthew 6:30, Luke 12:28); ‘Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things
Laughter - Beyond the two passages already mentioned, there is only one (
James 4:9) in which laughter is referred to,—and this is obviously a reminiscence of Christ’s
sayings as reported in
Luke 6:21;
Luke 6:25,—and one other in which jesting (εὐτραπελία)*
Saul - A band whose hearts God had touched escorted him to Gibeah, while the worthless despised him, saying "how shall this man save us?" (compare Luke 14:14, the Antitype, meekly "He held His peace"; Psalms 38:13). ...
His magnanimity too appears in his not allowing any to be killed of those whom the people desired to slay for saying "shall Saul reign over us?" Pious humility then breathed in his ascription of the deliverance to Jehovah, not himself (1653219916_87). ...
He shifts the blame on "the people" and makes religion a cloak, saying the object was "to sacrifice unto Jehovah, thy God. Yet soon after, because Jonathan let David go, Saul cast a javelin at his noble unselfish son, saying, "thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, for as long as he liveth thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom" (1 Samuel 20:28-33)
Absolution - ’...
The first of the
sayings—that about the keys and the binding and loosing—we might have been under some compulsion to take as for Peter alone, if it had not been that the like
saying is repeated to all the Apostles afterwards. In regard to the
saying (in
John 20:23) about the forgiveness and retaining of sins, it was spoken in ‘a general gathering of the believers in Jerusalem’ (see
Luke 24:33), and ‘there is nothing in the context to show that the gift was confined to any particular group (as the Apostles) among the whole company present. It was evidently the purpose of the Lord Jesus that His Church should continue the exercise on earth of the power which He constantly exercised and set in the forefront of His ministry, the power of
saying to the penitent, ‘Thy sins are forgiven thee’; and of
saying this with such assured knowledge of the truth of God and such sympathetic discernment of the spirits of men, that what was done by the Church on earth should be valid in heaven, and the word of Christ by the Church powerful to give comfort to truly penitent souls. , defending it from the objection that it is falsified and of no effect if the absolved lag not truth and faith, by
saying that in that case it is still effectual for judgment, as in the case of the misuse of the Lord’s Supper, or, indeed, of the preached gospel
Restitution - On the ground of this
saying the expectation of Elijah’s reappearance to herald the advent of the Messiah had become general among the Jews (
Sirach 48:10-11; cf. ...
(1) The
saying of Jesus in
Matthew 17:10 (
Mark 9:11) has been already referred to
Home (2) - A Talmudic
saying is significant—‘The altar itself weeps over the man who puts away his wife’ (Gittin 10b, Sanhed. It is true that this
saying is not to be taken too literally (see Bruce, With Open Face, ch
Heathen - This
saying is to be regarded as an obiter dictum of our Lord’s, spoken to His disciples from their present Jewish standpoint, and therefore of use to them at the moment in interpreting His meaning. Nor should we forget that the
saying which immediately precedes is, ‘Let the children first be filled. ’ The Syrophœnician, with the quick penetration of faith, perceived that the two
sayings were to be taken together, and knew that she was not really repelled (cf
Moses - " Moses then had to hear the voice of God
saying "Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. After this Moses besought the Lord
saying "I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon
Judah - For when in the hall of Pilate Jesus stood before the Governor, and the Governor asked him,
saying, "Art thou the king of the Jews?" Jesus acknowledged it, and said unto him, Thou sayest. And surely, as it is said of Christ in one blessed Scripture, that the names of his people are all "written in the book of life," (
Revelation 20:15) and in another he bids his people to "rejoice that their names are written there," (
Luke 10:20) as when considering himself the shepherd of his flock, and his people the sheep of his fold, he saith that "he calleth them all by name, and leadeth them out," (
John 10:3) and as the whole flocks of the mountains and of the vale, and of the cities of Benjamin, Jerusalem, and Judah, shall all pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, (
Jeremiah 33:13) surely it is not stretching the Scripture to say, that the Shebeth of Jehudah is as eminently descriptive of the greatness of his character, when speaking of this use of it, in writing, as in ruling, for sovereignty is implied in both, And the poor feeble hand that is now writing these lines, (earnestly begging forgiveness if he errs in the matter) cannot conclude this article without first
saying, (and will not the reader for himself also join the petition?) Oh, that the almighty Jehudah may have graciously exercised the Shebeth of his power, and written my poor name, worthless as it is, among the millions he hath marked down in the book of life! Amen
Nicolaitans - John
saying to the church in Pergamos, "I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication,"...
Revelation 2:14 . If Irenaeus is correct in
saying that it preceded by a considerable time the heresy of Cerinthus, and that the Cerinthian heresy was a principal cause of St
Enoch - The language "Enoch prophesied,
saying," favors tradition rather than the Book of Enoch being the source from whence Jude drew
Border - The same law is found in the Priestly Code in expanded form: ‘And the Lord spake unto Moses
saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes (zîzîth, κράσπεδα) in the borders’ (more correctly ‘tassels in the corners,’ (Revised Version margin)) ‘of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of each border (i
Alms - Luke our Lord is reported as
saying: ‘Sell that ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not’ (
Luke 12:33)
Southcotters - The following is the conclusion of a communication which she had at Stockfort: "As wrong as they are,
saying thou hast children brought up by the parish, and that thou art Bonaparte's brother, and that thou hast been in prison; so false is their
sayings, thy writings came from the devil or any spirit but the SPITIT OF THE LIVING GOD; and that every soul in this nation shall know before the FIVE YEARS I mentioned to thee in 1802 are expired; and then I will turn as a DIADEM of beauty to the residence of my people, and they shall praise the GOD OF THEIR SALVATION
Persecution in the Bible - Paul (
1 Corinthians 4:11-13 ;
2 Corinthians 4:8-12 ;
2 Corinthians 6:4-10 ;
2 Corinthians 11:24-27 ;
Galatians 5:11 ;
1 Thessalonians 2:2 ;
1 Thessalonians 3:4 ;
Acts 17:5-10 ;
Acts 18:12-17 ; 1653219916_10 ;
Acts 23:12-35 ), as well as Stephen (
Acts 6:8-7:60 ), James (
Acts 12:2 ), and Peter (
Acts 12:3-5 ), together with many anonymous martyrs experienced the truth of the Johannine
saying: “If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you” (
John 15:20 ; see
Acts 4:3 ;
Acts 5:17-42 ;
Acts 8:1 ;
Acts 12:1 ;
Revelation 2:26 ,
Revelation 2:26,2:9-10 ,
Revelation 2:9-10,2:13 ,
Revelation 2:13,2:19 ;
Revelation 3:8-10 ;
Revelation 6:9 ;
Revelation 16:6 ;
Revelation 17:6 ;
Revelation 18:24 ;
Revelation 20:4 )
Hezekiah - The laconic sentence: ‘Hezekiah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish,
saying: I have offended; that which thou puttest on me will I bear’ (
2 Kings 18:14 ) shows that abject submission was made
Boasting - After
saying that we have received everything from God, Paul poses the question, "Why do you boast as though you did not?" (
1 Corinthians 4:7 ), clearly implying that any time we boast in ourselves we are taking praise that belongs to God alone
Reap - Now the disciples were to go forth pointing to Him and
saying, the hour has come, the Messiah has arrived, and you must believe on Him
Gift - ...
It is notable that Christ’s only recorded request for a personal favour should have been the occasion of that deep
saying concerning ‘the gift of God’ (
John 4:10)
Levirate Law - ...
For the statement of a problem regarding the resurrection, propounded to Jesus (
Matthew 22:23-33, Mark 12:18-27, Luke 20:27-38), the Levirate law was used by the Sadducees, who are described by the Synoptists as
saying that there is no resurrection, and by Josephus (Ant
Shepherd - To this Messianic passage reference is made in
John 10:11-16, where Jesus is represented as
saying: ‘I am the good shepherd; … and I lay down my life for the sheep
Edification - The germ of the idea is probably to be found in the
saying of Christ (
Matthew 16:18) concerning the building of His Church (Lightfoot, Notes on Epistles of St
Caiaphas (2) - In
saying that ‘being high priest that same year he prophesied,’ the Evangelist does no more than claim for the theocratic head of the nation the function which might be supposed to be latent in his office (cf
Foot - John the Baptist indicated his inferiority to Christ by
saying that he was unworthy to unfasten His shoelatchet (
Mark 1:7)
Gallery - For while the church is made blessed in Christ, as her Head, which is said to be upon her "like Carmel, and the hair of her head like purple;" meaning, that Christ being the Head of his body the church, high, like the lofty mount Carmel, all the innumerable members on him beautiful as the purple coloured hair, the most lovely and valued among eastern women, the Lord praises his church with
saying, "How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse! thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck
Archangel - Now that he who spake was the Lord, appears by his
saying, "Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with a change of raiment
Faithfulness - But generally, the Person to whom one is “faithful” is the Lord Himself: “And he charged them,
saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord, faithfully, and with a perfect heart” (
Nose - ” God cursed Adam
saying: “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground …” (
am ha'Arez - Even the touch of the garment of an ‘am hâ’ârez was defiling; and Lazarus (Ethics of Judaism) quotes a
saying, ‘An ‘am hâ’ârez may be killed on the Sabbath of Sabbaths, or torn like a fish
Power - The believer must learn to depend upon God and trust in Him: “This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel,
saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts” (
Lord's Supper - And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them,
saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins,"
Matthew 26:20 ;
Matthew 26:26-28
Foot - This is what Moses means in this place by
saying, that, in Egypt they water the earth with their feet
Name - " (
Exodus 23:13) And hence we find, in after-ages of the church, the Lord again interposing with his grace on this occasion, and
saying: "And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi, and shalt call me no more Baali; for I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth
Navel - " (
Psalms 74:12) And hence the Lord Jesus is represented by the Holy Ghost as calling from his throne, in the centre of it, to his redeemed,
saying, "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else
Zedekiah - Jeremiah had assured him that he should die in peace; that his body should be burned, as those of the kings of Judah usually were; and that they should mourn for him,
saying," Ah, lord!"
Jeremiah 34:4-5
Obed-Edom - No doubt, the tokens of the divine presence were so visibly bestowed upon this man and his household, that the whole neighborhood, yea, the whole kingdom, could not but take notice of it; for it is said, "that it was told king David,
saying, the Lord hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertained to him, because of the ark of God,"
2 Samuel 6:12
Occupation (2) - ‘This is a faithful
saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works
Animals - ...
The camel (κάμηλος) figures in two
sayings of our Lord which have a proverbial ring. The three Synoptics record the
saying, ‘It is easier for a camel to pass through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God’ (
Matthew 19:24, Mark 10:25, Luke 18:25). The camel must have been the largest animal with which our Lord was familiar, and in both
sayings it is mentioned for its size. But Peter answered him,
saying, If then the wolves tear the lambs in pieces? Jesus said to Peter, Let not the lambs fear the wolves, after they (the lambs) are dead. The word is not intended to add to the harshness of our Lord’s
saying; the woman saw in it her ground for appeal. ) The only further reference to swine is the
saying, ‘Cast not your pearls before swine’ (
Matthew 7:6), in which our Lord emphasizes the necessity of tact in religious work. There is a similar use of the word in a
saying of our Lord as given by Justin Martyr: ‘Be not anxious as to what ye shall eat or what ye shall put on: are ye not much better than the birds and the beasts?’ (1 Apol. For the doctrine of providence involved in this and similar
sayings of our Lord, we must refer our readers to § iv
Humility - In accordance with Augustine’s well-known
saying (quoted by Calvin, Institutio, bk. The great
saying which goes to the root of the matter—‘I am meek and lowly in heart’ (
Matthew 11:29), has been variously interpreted (see art. For, as a fine Jewish
saying puts it, ‘While God despises what is broken among the animals, He loves in man a broken heart. This astonishing incident left an ineffaceable impression (
1 Peter 5:5), and warranted the literal
saying: ‘I am in the midst of you as he that serveth’ (
Luke 22:27). It was a wholesome
saying of the Rabbis: ‘The disciple of the wise should have sufficient pride to stand in defence of the Law he represents
Eucharist - 27 And he took a cup, and gave thanks, and gave to them,
saying, Drink ye all of it; 28 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is shed for many unto remission of sins. 19 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave to them,
saying, This is my body
David - in His Races - ...
I would fain begin David's shining graces by saying that faith in God is the true and real and living root of them all. And therefore it has been that they are the only two, father and son, to whom a voice came from heaven saying, Thou art a man after Mine own heart, and, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. ...
I was always exceedingly pleased with that saying of Chrysostom, says Calvin, 'The foundation of our philosophy is humility. After death we shall be done both with death and hell; and after death we shall awake in His likeness who died, not cursing Judas, and Annas, and Caiaphas, and Herod, and the soldier with the spear, but saying over them all with His last breath, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do
Rufus - At the same time, in His great
saying,
Mark 12:17,—a
saying which reveals that the whole domain of duty lay open before Him,—our Lord teaches that a kingdom of this world, even the principality of a Tiberius, has its own sphere of right, and that when it keeps within it, and exercises its administrative functions,—of which the levying of tribute is a representative instance,—it is to be obeyed without demur. This
saying was probably present to the mind of St
Life - The wicked live in harmony with the
saying, ‘Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die’ (ch. The deep, paradoxical
saying (
Matthew 16:25 f. ) about losing and finding one’s life is of significance here a
saying found not only in the three Synoptics (see
Mark 8:35 ,
Luke 9:24 ), but also in its substance in
John 12:25
Moses - Occasionally, however, special emphasis is laid upon the fact that Moses, as a prophet, gave utterance to certain
sayings, since, as the recognized representative of Judaism, he forms in some sense a contrast to Jesus; cf.
1 Timothy 5:18, where the same OT passage-
Deuteronomy 25:4 -is placed side by side with a
saying of Jesus)-just as elsewhere he frequently refers to special provisions of the Law, or to the Law as a whole. ...
We may sum up the whole by
saying that while primitive Christianity originally set Moses and Jesus side by side, it came at length, in the process of development, to contrast them with each other, and St. John, in the Prologue to his Gospel, gives expression to this result in his great
saying: ‘The law was given by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ’ (1:17)
Rufus - At the same time, in His great
saying,
Mark 12:17,—a
saying which reveals that the whole domain of duty lay open before Him,—our Lord teaches that a kingdom of this world, even the principality of a Tiberius, has its own sphere of right, and that when it keeps within it, and exercises its administrative functions,—of which the levying of tribute is a representative instance,—it is to be obeyed without demur. This
saying was probably present to the mind of St
Timothy, the First Epistle to - ...
Not knowing the true use of "the law" (
1 Timothy 1:7-8) the false teachers "put away good conscience," as well as "the faith" (
1 Timothy 1:19;
1 Timothy 4:2), "spoke lies in hypocrisy, corrupt in mind," regarded "piety as a means of gain" (
1 Timothy 6:5;
Titus 1:11); "overthrew the faith" by heresies "eating as a canker,
saying the resurrection is past, leading captive silly women, ever learning yet never knowing the truth, reprobate as Jannes and Jambres (
2 Timothy 3:6-8), defiled, unbelieving, professing to know God but in works denying Him, abominable, disobedient, reprobate" (
Titus 1:15-16). "the faithful
saying" (
1 Timothy 1:15), "sound," "seared" (
1 Timothy 4:2;
1 Timothy 3:14-159), "old wives' fables," "slow bellies" (
Titus 1:12)
Consecrate, Consecration (2) - ...
Our Lord’s words, ‘I consecrate myself’ (
John 17:19), are best understood in the light of His earlier
saying that ‘the Father consecrated’ Him (
John 10:36). ’ But it is not from the word ἁγιάζειν, that the nature of Christ’s death is to be learnt; that which differentiates the consecration of Christ from the consecration of His disciples is brought out rather by the other words in this pregnant
saying
Following - ), who came
saying, ‘Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. A
saying of farewell (ἀποτάσσεσθαι) in quite a different sense was necessary (
Luke 14:33)
Proverbs, the Book of - Pithy
sayings (compare David's quotation,
1 Samuel 24:13), like similes or with a figure. ...
In
Proverbs 1:6 "dark
sayings" (chidah ) are another form of proverbs, the enigmatical obscurity being designed to stimulate reflection (
Habakkuk 2:6; Judges 14;
1 Kings 10:1;
2 Chronicles 9:1;
Ezekiel 17:2;
Psalms 78:2); the melitsah (
Proverbs 1:6), "interpretation" (so Chald. and Vulgate versions), for which Gesenius translated "a
saying that needs an interpreter," i. "Proverb" is with Jesus' disciples equivalent to an obscure
saying (
John 16:29). ...
(4) Proverbs 30 is Agur's proverbs and enigmatical
sayings. ...
The repetition of many proverbs in a similar form in the middle division is due, not to their emanating from different authors, but to their having been selected out of different collections oral or written, of the same author Solomon, in which the same proverb appeared in a different connection; just as Jesus'
sayings repeated in different connections (
Proverbs 14:12;
Proverbs 16:25;
Proverbs 21:2;
Proverbs 21:9;
Proverbs 21:19;
Proverbs 10:1;
Proverbs 15:20;
Proverbs 10:2;
Proverbs 11:4;
Proverbs 10:15;
Proverbs 18:11;
Proverbs 15:33;
Proverbs 18:12;
Proverbs 11:21;
Proverbs 16:5;
Proverbs 14:31;
Proverbs 17:5;
Proverbs 19:12;
Proverbs 20:2)
Thessalonians, Epistles to the - Paul, in his anxiety for them, had sent Timothy to confirm and encourage them, and was greatly relieved by the news which Timothy brought of their faith and love,
saying "now we live if ye stand firm in the Lord. ...
There is evidence in this epistle that the minds of the saints had been disturbed, apparently by a feigned letter or message from Paul,
saying that the day of the Lord was present: this supposition may have been strengthened by the persecution they were passing through
Joseph - " How natural was it now for his brethren to think that the tie by which alone they could imagine Joseph to be held to them was dissolved, that any respect he might have felt or feigned for them must have been buried in the cave of Machpelah, and that he would now requite to them the evil they had done! "And they sent a messenger unto Joseph,
saying, Thy father did command before he died,
saying, So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil
Immanuel - " The New Testament application is not an "accommodation," for Matthew (
Matthew 1:23) expressly states that Jesus' birth of the virgin "was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet,
saying, Behold," etc
Bethany - Judas "promised and sought opportunity to betray Him unto them in the absence of the multitude " (
Luke 22:6); Matthew (
Matthew 26:5) similarly represents the chief priests, in compassing His death, as
saying," Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people
Hagar - Ishmael's mocking at the feast which celebrated Isaac's weaning was the occasion of Sarah's
saying, "Cast out this bond-woman and her son, for the son of this bond-woman shall not be heir with my son
Rock (2) - ’ The Saviour was pleased by this answer of faith, which had been revealed to Peter by the Heavenly Father, and commended him by
saying (
Matthew 16:18), ‘Thou art Peter (πέτρος), and on this rock (πέτρα) I will build my Church
Saints - It is explained by
saying that we have in the incident a striking testimony to the supernatural character and far-reaching power of our Lord’s death; that not only did it affect nature (earthquake), the Jewish economy (the rent veil), and human life (centurion), but that its influence penetrated even to the unseen world
Wrath, Wrath of God -
John 3:36 (NRSV) records Jesus'
saying “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but must endure God's wrath
Messenger - The direct application of the term to Jesus is not made in the NT, though a kindred idea is frequently expressed: in the
saying which occurs in all the Gospels, ‘He that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me’ (
Matthew 10:40, Mark 9:37, Luke 9:48;
Luke 10:15, John 13:20;
John 12:44); in the frequent Johannine phrase ‘whom God hath sent,’ and in the commission (
John 20:21); and even in the term ‘gospel’ (εὐαγγέλιον), which is expressive of what Jesus described Himself as anointed of God and sent to preach (
Luke 4:18)
False Prophets - ’ This view of false prophecy as the
saying of things men wish to hear ‘for the hire of wrong-doing,’ is to be discerned in
2 Peter 2:2 f
Turtle - " (
1 John 5:7) Here was Jesus in the act of being baptized; here was the Holy Ghost descending like a dove, and lighting upon him; and here was the voice of God the Father from heaven
saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased
Wicked - 6:37: “Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity,
saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly
Sojourn, Dwell - 21:23, Abraham makes a covenant with Abimelech,
saying, “… According to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned
Manichaeans - Considering all sensual enjoyments to be in some degree criminal, they were enemies to marriage; though, at the same time, knowing that all men cannot receive this
saying, they allowed it to the second class of their disciples, called auditors; but by no means to the perfect or confirmed believers
Eating - " Having distributed the bread among the guests, he takes the vessel of wine in his right hand,
saying, "Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the world, who hast produced the fruit of the vine
Jonah - He said to God that he did well to be angry about the gourd, but God condescended to reason with him,
saying that as Jonah had had pity on the gourd which cost him nothing; so God had had pity on Nineveh, a city with more than 120,000 inhabitants who knew not their right hand from their left, besides very much cattle
Perpetua, Vibia - The shepherd gave Perpetua a piece of cheese, which she received "junctis manibus" and consumed, the attendants
saying "Amen
Son of God - Peter from the sea, ‘came and worshipped him,’
saying, ‘Of a truth thou art the Son of God’ (
Matthew 14:33), the most natural interpretation may be that they were acknowledging Him as the Messiah. Here and there, indeed, there may be Messianic associations involved, as when Jesus promises to the Twelve that, in the day of the full manifestation of the Kingdom, they shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel (
Matthew 19:28), or when He predicts that on the judgment-day He will appear in the glory of His Father and of the holy angels (
Mark 8:38); but, as a rule, one might read the greater number of these
sayings without being reminded that they proceeded from the lips of one claiming to be the Messiah. ...
The climax of this ethicoreligious sentiment is reached in the great
saying of
Matthew 11:27, ||
Luke 10:22 ‘All things are delivered unto me of my Father; and no man knoweth the Son but the Father, neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. He showed, it is remarked, the true pathway to this position, and the one by which He had reached it Himself, in such
sayings as the following: ‘Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you; that ye may be sons of your Father which is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust’ (
Matthew 5:44 f. The close resemblance will be noted between the opening words of this statement and the opening words of the
saying in
Matthew 11:27, already commented on. Of course, its authenticity as a
saying actually proceeding from Jesus has been fiercely disputed, and in certain quarters the air is affected of treating it as beyond dispute an addition to the actual words of Christ; but its place in the ordinance of baptism connects it closely with the Author of that rite; and there is no reason for rejecting it which would not, at the same time, imply the rejection of the whole section of the life of our Lord which follows His death on the cross. In
John 5:18 we read, ‘Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said that God was his Father, making himself equal with God’; and in
John 10:35 ‘The Jews answered him,
saying, For a good work we stone thee not, but because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God,’ this being because He had stated, ‘I and my Father are one’ (
John 5:30)
Papias, Bishop of Hierapolis - , had said, and what John and Aristion were
saying; the last two being the only ones then surviving. which contained divine
sayings and refused it to those narrative parts from which he so often drew lessons (
Rom_4:3;
1Co_10:1;
1Co_11:8;
Gal_4:21). John's Gospel; and though Irenaeus only gives it as a
saying of the elders, Lightfoot (Contemp. John's Gospel quotes a
saying of Papias about that Gospel and speaks of Papias as having been John's amanuensis. ...
Georgius Hamartolus quotes Papias as
saying in his second book that the apostle John had been killed by the Jews. That there is some blunder is clear; but Lightfoot has made it very probable from comparison with a passage in Origen that a real
saying of Papias is quoted but with the omission of a line or two
Living (2) - 272; and for a similar profound
saying as to the relation between the Father and the Son and believers, see
John 10:14-15).
1 Corinthians 10:4), and perhaps more especially those OT
sayings in which it had been predicted that living water should flow out from Jerusalem, or from the House of the Lord (
Ezekiel 47:1;
Ezekiel 47:12, Zechariah 14:8, Joel 3:18, cf. This
saying of our Lord supplements and extends that of
John 4:14. The
saying was fulfilled after Pentecost, when ‘rivers of living water’ flowed out from the Lord’s witnesses ‘unto the uttermost part of the earth,’ ‘beginning at Jerusalem’*
Pharaoh - Till in a policy of despair this demented king charged all his people, saying, Every son of the Hebrews that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. But instead of saying, This is the Lord, and proclaiming an edict that the people should go free, Pharaoh called in his sorcerers and his magicians, and they did in like manner with their enchantments. For this cause, among others, God raised up Pharaoh that he might speak to you out of the Ked Sea, saying, Learn of me. A voice comes from the depth below, as well as from the height above, saying to us all, He among you that doetb the will of God, eveu he shall know of the doctrine, and shall not need to seek after a miracle
Bible, Hermeneutics - If we want to interpret a piece of literature, we must ask at least five questions: 1) Who was the writer and to whom was he writing? 2) What was the cultural-historical setting of the writer? 3) What was the meaning of the words in the writer's day? 4) What was the intended meaning of the author and why was he
saying it? 5) What should this mean to me in my situation today? These basic questions lead into other questions that must be explored in a serious attempt to understand the message of the Bible. The reader today must somehow try to enter the world of the biblical writer and seek to understand what the writer was
saying
Hearing - ‘This is an hard
saying,’ said many of the disciples after Jesus had spoken of Himself as the bread which came down from heaven, ‘who can hear it?’ (
John 6:60). For example, the verses at the close of the Sermon on the Mount, ‘Every one which heareth these
sayings of mine and doeth them … Every one that heareth these
sayings of mine and doeth them not’ (
Matthew 7:24;
Matthew 7:26, Luke 6:47;
Luke 6:49). For along with exhortations addressed to men to ‘hear’ and to fulfil that experience in understanding, believing, and doing, there occurs a
saying of Jesus like this, ‘Every one that hath heard from the Father and hath learned, cometh unto me’ (
John 6:45)
Scribes - The scribes by whom the Old Testament was written in its present characters and form, and its canon settled, are collectively in later times called "the men of the great synagogue, the true successors of the prophets" (Ρirke Αboth ("The
sayings of the
Fathers"), i. Rabbinical
sayings, Jewish fables (
Titus 1:14), and finally the Gemara ("completeness") filled up the scheme; and the Mishna and Gemara together formed the Τalmud ("instruction"), the standard of orthodoxy for the modern Jew. )...
Hillel's precepts breathe a loftier spirit: "trust not thyself to the day of thy death"; "judge not thy neighbour until thou art in his place"; "leave nothing dark,
saying I will explain it when I have time, for how knowest thou whether the time will come?" (
James 4:13-15); "he who gums a good name gains it for himself, but he who gains a knowledge of the law gains everlasting life" (compare
John 5:39;
Romans 2:13;
Romans 2:17-24). The scanty notice of him in rabbinic literature makes the identification likely; the Ρirke Αboth ("The
sayings of the
Fathers") does not name him. The
saying of a scribe illustrates the pleasant relations between master and scholars, "I have learned much from my teachers, more from my colleagues, most from my disciples. "...
At 30 the presiding rabbi admitted the probationer to the chair of the scribe by laying on of hands, giving him tablets whereon to write
sayings of the wise, and cf6 "the key of knowledge" (
Luke 11:52) wherewith to open or shut the treasures of wisdom
Corner-Stone - It would, however, sometimes happen that a stone discarded by certain builders would be recognized by a wiser master as that which he needed for an important place in his building, and this gave rise to the proverbial
saying quoted in
Psalms 118:22, which is familiarly repeated and applied to-day in Syria. ...
The epigrammatic value of the
saying is enhanced by the fact that in the East the master-knowledge of the different trades has always been carefully guarded, and a sharp distinction is drawn between the man who thinks and plans and the man who by his elementary manual labour merely carries out the orders of another
Dead, the - Jesus in the noteworthy
saying in
Luke 9:60 (=
Matthew 8:22), ‘Let the dead bury their dead,’ overrides a chief charge on filial affection, the burial of a father, as He emphasizes the paramount claims of discipleship. ’—The use of the term as descriptive of a certain spiritual condition, unperceiving, unresponsive, is illustrated in the
saying of
Luke 9:60, quoted above
Purity (2) - ’ Here the Evangelist expressly notes that the
saying ‘makes all foods clean. It was the sense of what true purity consists in that led an old writer to say, ‘Keep thy heart above all that thou guardest, for out of it are the issues of life’ (
Proverbs 4:23),—a
saying which half-anticipates the Beatitude promising the vision of God to the pure in heart
Law (2) - Lastly, when we remember how bitter was the strife which this very question aroused in the primitive Church, the misgiving is certainly not unreasonable, that this may have been reflected back into the life of the Founder, and
sayings placed in His mouth endorsing one of the later partisan views. However plausible this suggestion may be, the
sayings bear rather the stamp of Jesus than of the early Apostolic Church. ) the
sayings about the undressed cloth and the new wine in the old wineskins. Usually it has been thought that in both
sayings Jesus is defending the attitude of His disciples: you cannot expect the new spirit of the gospel to be cast in the old moulds or Judaism; the new spirit must create new forms for itself. The two
sayings are connected by ‘and,’ it is true, but this conjunction has in the Synoptics a wider range of meaning than in English. Wellhausen finds the
sayings difficult. He is not disposed to question their authenticity, though, as already mentioned, he strikes out the
sayings immediately preceding. However we may explain the
saying, ‘Destroy this temple, and I will build it up in three days’ (
John 2:19), He certainly foretold in His eschatological discourse (
Matthew 24:2) the overthrow of the literal temple, and therewith naturally the cessation of the Jewish cultus. ...
It is not improbable that the
saying, ‘Destroy this temple,’ should be similarly interpreted. It is true that the author of the Fourth Gospel interprets the
saying as a reference to the body of Christ, fulfilled in the death and the resurrection. It is, in fact, very difficult to believe that the
saying referred to the death and resurrection of Jesus. A difficulty, however, is raised by the Johannine version of the
saying. The pregnant aphoristic form and penetrating insight of the
saying stamp it as authentic
Lois And Eunice - And the young Greek lover was not a false-hearted and a designing cheat in so
saying. And now so beset is he behind and before with his badly performed part as a husband and a father, that, O wretched man that he is, he is every day doing and
saying things he ought not to do and say; doing and
saying things that drive him to downright despair
Mary, the Virgin - Mary was troubled (διεταράχθη), we are told, at the
saying, yet she believed at once. “His mother kept all these
sayings hid in her heart”; “Mary kept all these
sayings, pondering them in her heart”; those two sentences would be sufficient. ‘His mother kept (συνετήρει) all these
sayings in her heart. 70), ‘a relative attitude only, and is perfectly consistent with tender care for kinsmen, as the
saying on the cross shows. ’ These two scenes at Cana and Capernaum belong to the beginning of the Ministry, and similarly, almost at its close, we have Christ’s words, during the last journey from Galilee to Jerusalem, in answer to the
saying of the woman above mentioned, ‘Yea, rather (μενοῦν), blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it (
Luke 11:28)
the Woman Who Took Leaven And Hid it in Three Measures of Meal - Now, what did He mean by that
saying, do you suppose? What would you say was the leaven of the Pharisees? I do not know any more than you do, but I will tell you what I think. Ah! it is easy
saying purge it out. Would, said Moses, that all the Lord's people were prophets! And I will leave this parable where our Lord and His Apostle left it, only
saying over it and over you, Would that all the Lord's people wore expositors and preachers, and that out of their own observation and experience!...
Paul as a Controversialist - Luther is always
saying such things as these about Paul. Tertullian has a
saying to the effect that some men are as good as Christian men already, just by their birth of their mother. To Butler every day for that great
saying of his-"Let us remember that we differ as much from other men as they differ from us
Sanballat - ...
Who, then, is a wise man, and endued with wisdom among you? Who would fain be such a man? Who would fain at once and for ever extinguish out of his heart this fire from hell? Who would behave to his rivals and enemies, not as Nehemiah, good man though he was, behaved to the Samaritans, but as Jesus Christ behaved to them? Who, in one word, would escape the sin, and the misery, and the long-lasting mischief of party spirit? Butler has an inimitable way of
saying some of his very best and very deepest things. Our master-moralist seems to be
saying nothing at all, when all the time what he is
saying is everything. And here is one of his great
sayings that has helped me more in this matter than I can tell you
Nicodemus - " And, had Nicodemus only been alone that day, there is no
saying what he might not have said and done on the spot. Believe me, whoever says it, and however long and learnedly and solemnly they have been
saying it, there is no such thing. John had scoffed at Nicodemus's boasted birth from Abraham; but Jesus contented Himself with simply
saying that Nicodemus must be born of water and of the Spirit
Titus, Epistle to - Ancient writers describe their avarice, ferocity, fraud, and mendacity, and the Apostle himself quotes (
Titus 1:12 ) Epimenides, one of their own poets, as
saying ‘Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons
Tabernacle - The writer of the Fourth Gospel illustrates the Incarnation by
saying that the Logos tabernacled (ἐσκήνωσεν) among us (
John 1:14). Taylor,
sayings of the Jewish Fathers2, Cambridge, 1897, p
Naphtali - 180) quotes a
saying from the Talmud: ‘It is easier to raise a legion of olives in Galilee than to bring up a child in Palestine
Consecration - When he approached near the rail of the communion table, he bowed towards it five or six times; and, returning, went round the church, with his attendants in procession;
saying first the hundredth and then the nineteenth Psalm, as prescribed in the Roman Pontifical
Tradition - ...
When the canon was complete the infallibility was transferred from living men's inspired
sayings to the written word, now the sole unerring guide, interpreted by the Holy Spirit; comparison of Scripture with Scripture being the best commentary (
1 Corinthians 2:12-16;
1 John 2:20;
1 John 2:27;
John 1:33;
John 3:34;
John 15:26;
John 16:13-14). The danger of even a genuine oral tradition (which scarcely any of the so-called traditions are) is illustrated in the "saying" that went abroad among the brethren that John should not die, though Jesus had not said this, but "if I will that he tarry until I come, what is that to thee?" (
John 21:22-23)
Greetings - On discovery the former may revoke it, as he does should a Moslem fail to return it,
saying, ‘Peace be on us and on the righteous worshippers of God’ (
Luke 10:6)
Legs - ‘One of the malefactors reproached them,
saying, We have suffered this for the evils that we have done, but this man having become the Saviour of men, what wrong hath He done to you? And they, being angered at him, commanded that his legs should not be broken, that he might die in torment’ (see Robinson and James, Gospel and Revelation of Peter; also the edd
Blessedness (2) - The famous form of the
sayings there collected (see art. So throughout the pages of the Gospels and elsewhere in the NT we find
sayings cast in the same mould. ...
When we set ourselves to discover the significance of these
sayings we are struck (1) by their spiritual character. ’...
(2) Several of these
sayings are marked by the sense of the futurity of their fulfilment. As Titius puts it, ‘Over every
saying of Jesus may be written the inscription, “Concerning the kingdom of God” ’ These
sayings, then, reveal the nature of the kingdom in its twofold aspect as an inward, spiritual, present reality which exists, progresses, suffers, is in perpetual conflict; and, as a great future fulfilment, when conflict shall turn to peace, failure to victory, suffering to reward, and the inward desire and the outward attainment be one in the presence of perfected power
False Christs - They do not belong to the primitive tradition of Christ’s
sayings. ) quotes this
saying in his Dialogue (82
Build - Ben-hadad’s servant Hazael took gifts to Elisha,
saying, “Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee” (
2 Kings 8:9)
Offer - Qârab can be used of the imminence of joyous occasions, such as religious feasts: “Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart,
saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand …” (
Lord - Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord
God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me,
saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt: And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites …” (
Mark, Gospel by - Of the Lord's utterances on the cross, His asking forgiveness for His murderers; His promise to the repentant thief; His commending His mother to John; His
saying, 'I thirst;' 'It is finished;' and His commending His Spirit unto the Father, are not recorded here
Neonomianism - Hath the Gospel a sanction, that is, doth Christ therein enforce his commands of faith, repentance, and perseverance, by the foresaid promises and threatenings, as motives to our obedience? Both these I affirm, and they deny;
saying, the Gospel in the largest sense is an absolute promise without precepts and conditions, and a Gospel threat is a bull
Paul's Visit to Jerusalem to See Peter - Would you have asked anything? How far would you go tonight to have an interview with Peter? Honestly, have you any curiosity at all about Jesus Christ, either as He is in heaven now, or as He was on earth then? Really and truly, do you ever think about Him, and imagine Him, and what He is
saying and doing? Or are you like John Bunyan, who never thought whether there was a Christ or no? If you would tell me two or three of the questions you would have put to Peter, I would tell you in return just who and what you are; just how you stand tonight to Jesus Christ, and how He stands to you: and what He thinks and says about you, and intends toward you. Paul went "back to Jesus," as the
saying sometimes is; but when he went back he took back with him all the knowledge of the Son of God that he has put into his Epistles, ay, and much more than the readers of his Epistles were able to receive
Blasphemy (2) - the phrase ‘the sons of men’ occurs in an earlier part of the
saying (
Mark 3:28). ...
At the same time, while this must be understood as the correct exegesis of the words, the
saying should be interpreted in harmony with the spirit of Christ
Joannes ii, Bishop of Jerusalem - He shewed some consideration towards Pelagius, allowing him, though a layman, to sit among the presbyters; and when there was a clamour against Pelagius for shewing disrespect for the name and authority of Augustine, John, by
saying, "I am Augustine," undertook both to ensure respect to that great teacher and not to allow his authority to be pressed too far against his antagonist. " John thereupon asked him if he was ready to become the accuser of Pelagius; but Orosius declined this duty,
saying that Pelagius had been condemned by the African bishops, whose decisions John ought to accept
Holy Spirit (2) - ...
Have we any means of
saying what is meant by such words as the Evangelists employ in this connexion? Can we interpret Jesus’ experience by what we read of spiritual gifts or states in the Primitive Church? Is it right to look in His life for such phenomena as we find, e. It is hardly doubtful that this is the true form of this much discussed
saying of Jesus. In principle, it is the everyday sin of finding bad motives for good actions; carried to its unpardonable height, it is the sin of confronting the Divine holy power which wrought so irresistibly and so intensely in Jesus, and
saying anything—the maddest, most wanton, most malignant thing—rather than acknowledge it for what it is. ...
The form of this
saying which appears in
Matthew 12:31 f. is a doublet, in which the same
saying is found, first as it appeared in the Gospel of Mk
Michal - ) Meanwhile, Michal loved David; and Saul on hearing of it from his attendants made it a trap for David (
1 Samuel 18:21),
saying, "thou shalt be my son in law in a second way," and requiring, instead of the dowry paid to the father according to Eastern usage, 100 Philistines' foreskins
Reuben - ...
Reuben was deeply moved to find Joseph gone; he rent his clothes, crying, "the child is not, and I, where shall I go?" Years after he reminded them of his remonstrance (
Genesis 42:22): "spoke I not unto you
saying, Do not sin against the child, and ye would not hear? Therefore behold also his blood is required
Jehovah - ...
The Jews by a misunderstanding of
Leviticus 24:16 ("utters distinctly" instead of "blasphemeth") fear to use the name,
saying instead "the name," "the four lettered name," "the great and terrible name
Levi - ]'>[2] (
Numbers 18:2 ;
Numbers 18:4 ) playa upon the same word,
saying to Aaron: ‘Bring the tribe of Levi ⦠that it may be joined ( yillâwû ) unto thee
Sadducees -
Acts 23:8 defines the Sadducees theologically,
saying that, in contrast to the Pharisees, they hold there "is no resurrection, and neither angels nor spirits
Mary - Tambasco, What Are They
saying about Mary? ...
...
Galilee, Sea of - ...
So impressed were the disciples that "they worshipped Him,
saying, Of a truth Thou art the Son of God
James, Epistle of - ...
The apostle then speaks of the folly of
saying one had faith apart from works
Abba - ) of the Roman Catholic ‘saying Paternoster,’ but adds that ‘Paul will not allow even one word of prayer in a foreign tongue without adding an instant translation’; and further refers to the Welsh use of Pader as a name for the Lord’s Prayer
Shimei - When David, fleeing from Absalom, reached the edge of the valley, between the road and Shimei's house, Shimei ran along the ridge over against the road, cursing and throwing stones and dust at him and his mighty men still as he went; and
saying, "Come out, come out, thou bloody man and thou man of Belial the Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul (referring to his hanging up Saul's sons for the Gibeonites, 2 Samuel 21, which in time preceded this; also to his general engagement in wars,
1 Chronicles 22:8), and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son, and behold thou art taken in thy mischief because thou art a bloody man" (
2 Samuel 16:5-13)
Magi - Prideaux is of opinion that Zoroaster took the hint of this alteration in their theology from the prophet Isaiah, who brings in God,
saying to Cyrus king of Persia, I am the Lord, and there is none else: I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace and create evil, ch
Bezer - (
Isaiah 58:12) And every ordinance and means of grace in the ministry of his word points, like the Miklat of the Jews, unto Jesus,
saying, "This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left," (
Isaiah 30:21) Blessed Jesus, be thou indeed, "the way, and the truth, and the life!" and surely, "the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein
Messiah - This term is peculiarly, and by way of eminency, applied to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Mashah or Meshiah of the Father, full of grace and truth Hence, with pointed and personal distinction, God the Father is represented in the Scripture as
saying: "I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people; I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him
Jerusalem - ...
We are told by the Evangelists, that "when Jesus was come near to Jerusalem, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace: but now they are hid from thine eyes
Priest; Priesthood - 16:5-7: “And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company,
saying, Even tomorrow the Lord will show who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him
Remnant - … Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly
saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael … wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?” (
Eutychius - Some of his friends told Gregory that, a few minutes before his end, he touched the skin of his hand,
saying, "I confess that in this flesh we shall rise again" (Paul
Judas Iscariot - But when Judas, who attended the whole trial, saw that it turned out quite contrary to his expectations, that Jesus was capitally convicted by the council, as a false Christ and false prophet, notwithstanding he had openly avowed himself; and that he wrought no miracle, either for their conviction or for his own deliverance, as Judas well knew he could, even from the circumstance of healing Malchus, after he was apprehended; when he farther reflected, like Peter, on his Master's merciful forewarnings of his treachery, and mild and gentle rebuke at the commission of it; he was seized with remorse, and offered to return the paltry bribe of thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders instantly on the spot,
saying, ‘I sinned in delivering up innocent blood;' and expected that on this they would have desisted from the prosecution
Zechari'ah - Jeremiah especially seems to have been his favorite; and hence the Jewish
saying that "the spirit of Jeremiah dwelt in Zechariah
Phrygia - There is a bitter
saying in the Talmud to the effect that the baths and wines of Phrygia had separated the ‘Ten Tribes’ from the brethren (A
Think - " The
saying appears to be proverbial, perhaps a rabbinical adage
Natural - To Renan’s outburst, ‘Nature cares nothing about chastity,’ the true reply is, ‘Instead of
saying that Nature cares nothing about chastity, let us say that human nature, our nature, cares about it a great deal’ (Matthew Arnold, Discourses in America, London, 1896, p
Sermon on the Mount - Other
sayings of Jesus contained in the three chapters of Mt. is not the source of any of these
sayings. ’s second renderings of the
sayings than to his earlier renderings, which are those of the Sermon on the Mount, showing that if Mt. in either case, it is in the later passages where the
sayings are given in another connexion, not in the Sermon. in their renderings of the same
sayings, as well as various other phenomena connected with them, have led scholars to the conclusion that (a) there were two or more versions of Matthew’s Logia, or (b) that there were other collections of
sayings of Jesus besides that made by Matthew (Wendt, Jülicher, Wernle, J. , split at 5 places, or as some reckon at 7 places, with blocks of Logia wedged in at these openings, the Sermon being the first such insertion; and (β) since our chief collection of the
sayings of Jesus is that contained in Mt. We have here a concise concentration of many most pregnant
sayings of Jesus. It will be observed that the Gospel’s most full and consecutive rendering of
sayings found in St. Let us turn to those
sayings of the Mt. Moreover, this
saying is also in Mk. the
saying about salt losing its savour is followed by that of the lamp under the bushel—a logion which appears in Mk. —Lastly, the
saying about the narrow gate (
Matthew 7:13-14) appears in Lk. contain
sayings of Jesus which were not parts of the original Sermon. , he allows that the Sermon, apart from such interpolations of alien
sayings of Jesus, is a connected discourse (The Sermon on the Mount: Its Literary Structure, etc. For a similar reason, we cannot suppose that they were both dependent on the same version of Matthew’s Logia; because, if so, one or both of them must have treated its venerated contents—consisting of reports of the
sayings of Jesus—in the same unscrupulous way. are genuine and characteristic
sayings of Jesus. But we may admit the genuineness of the
sayings and yet deny them a place in the original Sermon on the Mount; for it has been shown above that Mt. ’s three chapters contain insertions of
sayings of Jesus spoken on various occasions, (b) The First Evangelist—or St. (c) It is difficult to think that if our Lord gave the
sayings originally with their ethical and spiritual characterization, this could have dropped out accidentally, or have been deliberately eliminated so as to confine them to social relations. , His disciples may have discerned in them a deeper meaning, knowing that He was accustomed to speak in parables; or He Himself may have explained them, for we must remember that in the Gospels we have excerpts from the teachings of Jesus, pregnant
sayings, parables, and aphorisms that stuck in the memory, while the fuller exposition which must often have followed is rarely given, perhaps n
Expediency - That this
saying of Caiaphas has made a deep impression upon St. Paul here refers to some
saying of his, which was subsequently drawn out of its limiting context by some members of the Corinthian Church who were inclined to exaggerate Christian liberty, so that they could please themselves in the matter of food, drink, etc. It is to such sinister criticism that he alludes when in
2 Corinthians 5:11, after
saying ‘we persuade men,’ he adds, ‘but we are become manifest unto God’; i
Missions - Then He warned the disciples,
saying, ‘Ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles’ (
Matthew 10:18). After
saying that He lays down his life for the sheep’ (
John 10:15), Jesus adds, ‘Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice’ (
John 10:16). He quotes the words of Joel in explanation of what had happened at Pentecost,
saying, It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh’ (
Acts 2:17), And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved’ (
Acts 2:21). It was ‘they of the circumcision,’ and not the first disciples, who glorified God,
saying, ‘Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life’ (
Acts 11:18)
James And John, the Sons of Zebedee - 86), which shows that the
saying of
Mark 10:38 was interpreted of the baptism of blood, and the testimony of Aphraates (Homily 21), who speaks of James and John following in the footsteps of their Master, if they point to the tradition of martyrdom, also suggest the natural explanation of its origin, if it is not historical, viz. Whether the tradition owes its existence to attempts to interpret the Synoptic
saying, or is a reminiscence of actual fact, is in the light of our present knowledge difficult determine. The Synoptic
saying about the cup and baptism (
Mark 10:38) is certainly insufficient proof of actual martyrdom. And we may perhaps venture to say that there are traces of modification and omission in regard to this very
saying which suggest that it did cause difficulty
‘We have found in a certain booklet an apostolic
saying, “Blessed is also he who fasts that he may feed the poor” ’ (‘Invenimus hi quodam libello ab apostolis dictum-Beatus eat qui etiam jejunat pro eo ut alat pauperem’). ...
This
saying might legitimately be deduced from such passages as
Ephesians 4:28 and
James 2:16, but the practice easily associated itself with the idea of fasting as a work of merit. Nowhere is the traditional Church ascetic held up to imitation in the NT, as Eusebius (HE
Sayings (Unwritten) - SAYINGS (UNWRITTEN). —Certain sayings ascribed to Christ, though recorded by early writers, are not found written in the Gospels, and therefore are known as the Agrapha, or Unwritten sayings of Our Lord. ...
There must once have been a large amount of Agrapha—of teachings and sayings which have not reached us in the pages of Holy Writ. ...
The extra-canonical sayings are preserved in some Manuscripts of the Gospels, and in those religious romances known as the Apocryphal Gospels, also in the Commentaries of the Fathers; but there are, besides, a few sayings which are Agrapha in that they are not included in the written Gospels, but yet possess high attestation as being parts of the text of Acts and 1 Cor. ...
The sayings preserved in some Manuscripts of the Gospels are of the nature of textual variations for the most part. Those which are not universally admitted may yet be authentic traditions, though extra-canonical: relics of the many sayings which were not recorded by the Evangelists. ...
The following sayings, however, are in a different category. ; yet the words attributed to Christ in these two sections, and in the texts cited above, must certainly commend themselves to unprejudiced ears as authentic reminiscences of the Master’s sayings, even if we refuse them a place in the canonical records. ...
The sayings of Christ which have been preserved outside the NT by ecclesiastical writers, though not actually numerous, are too many for quotation in this article. ...
(b) ‘There is the following story: “Behold, the Lord’s mother and his brethren were saying to him: ‘John the Baptist baptizes unto remission of sins; let us go and be baptized by him. ...
(c) ‘We read, too, of the Lord saying to the disciples: “And never rejoice, except when you have looked upon your brother in love” ’ (in Ephesians 5:3 f. ...
The ‘Sayings’ contained in a fragmentary papyrus of the 3rd cent. ’...
Many sayings ascribed to Jesus have been collected from Mohammedan sources (cf. are useful: ‘Sayings’ from Manuscripts and Fathers—Lock, Expositor, iv. 1, 97; ‘Oxyrhynchus sayings’—Swete, ExpT 257, 321, 401; ‘Sayings’ from Mohammedan sources—Margoliouth, ExpT Violence - Interest centres chiefly on the two passages Matthew 11:12 and Luke 16:16, which are so much alike, though in different contexts, that they are obviously two versions of the same saying. ...
If it be supposed, adds Dalman, that by using (Luke 16:15-18) sayings of our Lord which originally had quite a different association, Lk. The saying which Mt
Scenes from the life—plant and animal—of nature occur in all His parables, and in very many
s, which show the exactness and sympathy of His observations. More deliberate and (as it were) classical are such