-gall:.the
drink offered to our Lord was vinegar.(made
of light wine rendered acid, the common
drink of Roman soldiers)."mingled
with gall" or, according to Mark 15:23
"mingled with myrrh" both expressions meaning the same thing, namely, that
the vinegar was made bitter by the infusion
of wormwood
or some other bitter substance, usually given, according to a merciful
custom, as an anodyne
to those who were crucified, to render them insensible to pain. Our Lord,
knowing this, refuses to drink it. He would take nothing to cloud his faculties
or blunt the pain of dying. He chooses to suffer every element of woe in
the bitter cup of agony given him by the Father:.John
18:11.
-doeth:.means
'to make, to produce, construct, form, fashion, etc., to be the authors
of, to cause, to make ready, to prepare, to produce, bear, shoot forth,
to acquire, to provide a thing for one's self, to make a thing out of something,
to render one anything, to constitute or appoint one or anything, to declare
one anything, to put one forth, to lead him out, to make one do something,
cause something,
to bring forth.
-eunuchs:.Emmanuel
is speaking of those who, like the apostle Paul,
came to lead a life without need of a mate and the concerns that come along
with it:.1Corinthians
7:32-35.
Those made eunuchs
refers to individuals
rendered.sexually.incapable
by others.
-comments on Romans
9:3:.Paul
is saying that He was willing to be accursed,
that is, continue being in a low consciousness,
if
that were possible and if somehow that would avail
anything in the awakening and
helping of others spiritually:.Psalms
84:10. It is
an expression of
his heartfelt love toward others having the benefit at his expense:.Philippians
2:3,4. Paul, Moses
and David were unselfish and
had
deep feelings for others.
Barnes
New Testament Notes."The
object of the apostle is not to state his former feelings, but his present
attachment to his countrymen and willingness to suffer for them. The proper
grammatical construction of the word used here is not 'I did wish', but
'I could desire'; that is, if the thing were possible. It is not 'I do
wish' or 'did wish', but 'I could desire'.(original
"hucomhn"), implying that he was willing
now to endure it; that his present love for them was so strong, that he
would, if practicable, save them from the threatened ruin and apostasy."
Family
New Testament Notes:."Paul
was willing to be subjected to the greatest calamities for his brethren,
if by this means they could be saved. While true religion leads those who
possess it earnestly to desire the salvation of all, it leads them especially
to desire the salvation of their own countrymen and most of all that of
their relatives and friends and to be willing to make any proper sacrifices
for the sake of promoting it."
Geneva Bible Footnotes,
1599
A.D.."The
apostle loved his brethren so completely that if it had been possible he
would have been ready to have redeemed the castaways of the Israelites
with the loss of his own soul forever, for this word 'accursed' signifies
as much in this place."
-Son
of man:.John
12:34 "The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ
abides for ever and how you say, The Son of man must be lifted up? who
is this Son of man?"
Son of man is Emmanuel
the son of the Creator having been born into humanity:.Hebrews
2:14; Luke 24:39. Since our
Creator is only love, He was the
Son of Love.
Love is a high consciousness
quality,
a quality that the Son of man came
here to reveal so that humanity would be lifted upward and onward from
the low consciousness ego level that is the base cause of all his problems.
And Christ showed the way to the Father, the way to love, for God and all
in this spiritual realm of God, is love:.1John
4:6-17. Without the high consciousness of love they
would not be there.
He was the representative
man, in the sense of 1Corinthians
15:45-47; Philippians 2:7;
Matthew
11:19;
Luke 19:10, the Son
of David.(Matthew
1:1), His Jewish name and Son of
God.(Matthew
4:6).His
divine
name.
-Galatians
4:10 re:."days
and months and times and years":
Comprised from.Peoples
New Testament Notes: These are specifications of how they were
turning back to the Jewish law. The days are the Jewish Sabbaths. The months
are the new moons; the times are the Jewish festivals; the years are the
Sabbatical.(every
7).years
such as the year of jubilee. In observing these, there was legal bondage
to an obsolete system.
These all were never binding
except on Jews and others who embraced their religion. Prior
to Christ's time they were binding. When Paul
wrote the Galatians, these had for years been done away:.Colossians
2:16; 2Corinthians 11:3,4;
Galatians
2:21; Galatians 4:11.
-Nicodemus:
From the.Peoples
New Testament Notes:."Nicodemus
was a
Pharisee
and member of the Sanhedrin.
He is first noticed as visiting Emmanuel by night.(John
3:1-21).for
the purpose of learning more of his doctrines, which Christ then unfolded
to him, giving prominence
to the necessity of being 'born again'.
"He is next met with in the
Sanhedrin.(John
7:50-52), where he protested against
the course they were taking in plotting against Christ.
"Once more he is mentioned
as taking part in the preparation for the anointing and burial of the body
of Christ:.John
19:39. We hear nothing more of him. There
can be little doubt that he became a true disciple."
See the series The
Chosen and you'll so much more about this fine man.
-persecutions:.comprised
with.Barnes
New Testament Notes: "...promising
a hundred times as many mothers, sisters, etc. means that the loss shall
be a hundred times compensated or made up. We have a hundred times the
value of all that may have forsaken us in becoming a member of the
God team..."
Comprised with.Adam
Clarke's Commentary:."...those
who have left all for the sake of Christ do find, among genuine people
of love, spiritual 'relatives' which are as dear to them as fathers, mothers,
for wherever a Christian
travels among Christians, the shelter of their houses and the product of
their lands, are at his service as far as they are requisite...";
example.
From.Matthew
Poole's Commentary:."...Christ
assures him that neither he, nor any other that had done so, should by
it lose any thing; for though in this life they should have persecutions,
yet they should be amply rewarded in value, if not in kind, in this world
and with infinite happiness in the next...."
From.Strongs
Exhaustive Concordance: 'persecution' is to make to run or flee,
to be made to 'get out of here', to put to flight, drive away; to run swiftly
in order to catch a person or thing, to run after; to press on figuratively
of one who in a race runs swiftly to reach the goal; to pursue.(in
a hostile manner); in any way whatever
to harass, trouble, molest one; to persecute; to be mistreated, suffer
persecution
on account of something even without the idea of hostility, to run after,
follow after someone; to seek after eagerly.
Matthew
5:12 "Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven,
for so persecuted
they the prophets which were before you."
Romans
5:3 "And not only so, but we glory in tribulations
also, knowing that tribulation works patience."
James
1:2 "My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations."
James
1:4 "But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect
and entire, wanting nothing."
1Peter
1:6 "Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need
be, you are in heaviness through manifold
temptations."
Hebrews
12:6 "For whom the Lord loves he chastens and scourges every son whom
he receives."
And Emmanuel's
example:.Luke
22:42 "Saying, Father, if you be willing, remove this cup from me,
nevertheless not my will, but yours, be done."
-go
to now:.comprised
with.Barnes
New Testament Notes.'go
to now' is a phrase
designed to awaken one's attention, as if there were something that demanded
their notice. The phrase expresses disapproval or disbelief. See also James
5:1. Compare Genesis 11:7;
Isaiah
1:18..The
phrase is akin to
'come on now', meaning to gather your head because 'what you're telling
me, I can't make
sense of, that is, I can't accept what you are saying'; 'based on what
you said, more information is needed before I would accept it as true;
'he was trying to pull
the wool over my eyes, to keep me in the dark and away from the truth'.
Adam
Clarke's Commentary by Gary Gallant."Come
and hear what I have to say, you that say, today or tomorrow we will go.".Genesis
11:3,4,7.
-anger:
When is anger 'sinful'? Sin means 'missing the mark', missing the mark
of
what?
Anger misses the mark of
being of the same
mind as God when:
From.Barnes
New Testament Notes: Anger is sinful in the following circumstances:
1. When it is excited without
any sufficient cause, such as, when we are in no danger and do not need
it for a protection. We should be safe without it.
2. When it transcends
the cause, if any cause really exists. All that is beyond the necessity
of immediate self-protection is apart from its design and is wrong.
3. When it is against the
person rather than the offence. The object is not to injure another; it
is to protect ourselves:.Romans
12:18 "If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with
all men."
4. When it is attended with
the desire of revenge. That is always wrong:.Romans
12:17,19.
5. When it is cherished and
heightened by reflection.
6. When there is an unforgiving
spirit; a determination to exact the utmost satisfaction for the injury
which has been done. If men were perfectly holy, that sudden arousing of
the mind in danger or on the reception of an injury, which would serve
to prompt us to save ourselves from danger, would exist and would be an
important principle of our nature, whereas, as it is now. it is violent;
excessive; incontrollable; persevered in and is almost always wrong. If
men were holy, this excitement of the mind would obey the first injunctions
of reason and be wholly under its control; as it is now, it seldom obeys
reason at all and is wholly wrong. Moreover, if all men were holy, if there
were none disposed to do an injury, anger would exist only in the form
of a sudden arousing of the mind against immediate danger. Now, it is excited
not only in view of physical dangers, but in view of the wrongs done by
others and hence it terminates on the person and not the thing and becomes
often wholly evil.
-disputing
about the body of Moses: comprised with.Barnes
Notes: It has been supposed that the apostle quotes some book existing
in his time, containing this account. Origen
mentions such a book called.The
Assumption of Moses, a Jewish Greek book
as extant in
his time, containing this very account of the contest between Michael and
the devil about the body of Moses as described in Jude
1:9. That book is now lost. There is still extant a book in Hebrew,
a book called.The
Death of Moses.which
some have supposed to be the book referred to by Origen.
Other
books mentioned but not included in the Bible.
