A Commentary; Critical, Practical and Explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments, Volume 2 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...the words which are now employed as names of letters used to denote the letters themselves or their figures. vitringa. The noun here is cognate to the verb, " mart a mark." So in Revelation, 7. 3, no particular mark is specified. We seal what we wish to guard securely. When all things else on earth are confounded, God will secure His people from the common ruin. God gives the first charge as to their safety before He orders the punishment of the rest (Psalm 31. 20; Isaiah, 26. 20, 21). So in the case of Lot and Sodom (Genesis, 19. 22); also the Egyptian first-born were not slain till Israel had time to sprinkle the blood-mark, insuring their safety (Cf. Revelation, 7. 3; Amos, 9. 9). So the early Christians had Pella provided as a refuge for them, before the destruction of Jerusalem, upon the foreheads--the most conspicuous part of the person, to imply how that their safety would be manifested to all (Cf. Jeremiah, 15. 11; 39, 11-18). It was customary thus to mark worshipers (Revelation, 13. 16; 14. 1, 9) and servants. So the Church of England marks the forehead with the sign of the cross in baptizing. At the exodus the mark was on the houses, for then it was families; here, it is on the foreheads, for it is individuals whose safety is guaranteed, sigh and... Cry--similarly-sounding verbs in Hebrew, as in English Version, ex.pressing the prolonged sound of their grief. "Sign" implies their inwardgrief ("groanings which cannot be uttered." Romans, 8. 26); "cry," the outward expression of it. So Lot (2 Peter, 2. 7, 8). Tenderness should characterise the man of God, not harsh sternness in opposing the ungodly (Psalm 119. 53, 136; Jeremiah, 13. 17; 2 Corinthians, 12. 21); at the same time zeal for the...

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