{"id":12421,"date":"2022-09-24T04:31:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-nehemiah-68\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T04:31:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:31:16","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-nehemiah-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-nehemiah-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Nehemiah 6:8"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 8<\/strong>. <em> There are no such things<\/em> done] Literally, &lsquo;it has not happened or it has not been done according to these words.&rsquo; Nehemiah contents himself with curtly retorting that there is no sort of foundation for Sanballat&rsquo;s words. The letters of Artaxerxes to &lsquo;the governor beyond the river&rsquo; (<span class='bible'>Neh 2:9<\/span>) were well known to all; Nehemiah could not be a rebel; he had royal and official support for his work. And the assertion that he was currently rumoured to be engaged in an insurrectionary movement was a mere pretence. The very rumour, he replies, is of Sanballat&rsquo;s own making; and such as it is, it has nothing to go upon.<\/p>\n<p> Nehemiah saw that the object of the letter was to damage him in the eyes of the people. Compare Sennacherib&rsquo;s messengers, <span class='bible'>2Ch 32:18<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em> thou feignest them out of thine own heart<\/em> ] i.e. your assertion that a rumour of this kind is being circulated is as much your own invention as the statements which you graft upon it. &lsquo;Feignest.&rsquo; The Hebrew word so rendered only occurs elsewhere in the O. T. in <span class='bible'>1Ki 12:33<\/span>, &lsquo;in the month which he had devised of his own heart.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P>  Verse <span class='bible'>8<\/span>. <I><B>There are no such things done<\/B><\/I>] You well know that what you say is false: I shall not, therefore, trouble myself about a false charge.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Adam Clarke&#8217;s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Then I sent unto him<\/strong>,&#8230;. Whether a letter, or a messenger, is not said:<\/p>\n<p><strong>saying there are no such things done as thou sayest<\/strong>; that there was any scheme formed to rebel, and make him king, or that prophets were appointed to declare him such:<\/p>\n<p><strong>but thou feignest them out of thine own heart<\/strong>; in short, that they were no other than lies of his own inventing.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 8<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> Thou feignest them heart <\/strong> The governor no longer hesitates to charge his enemy with devising a wicked slander.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Neh 6:8 Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 8. <strong> There are no such things done as thou sayest<\/strong> ] Nehemiah is not too careful to clear himself. This was so transparent a lie, that a man might see through it, and was, therefore, best answered with a neglective denial. It falls out often that plain dealing puts craft out of countenance. <em> Animus recti conscius obiecta probra ut visus nocturnos et vanas somniorum imagines digno supplicio punit, festivo scilicet contemptu, et oblivione: vel, si tanti est, misericordia elevat<\/em> (John Wower).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>feignest. Only here and 1Ki 12:33 (devise). <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>There are: Act 24:12, Act 24:13, Act 25:7, Act 25:10 <\/p>\n<p>thou feignest: Job 13:4, Psa 36:3, Psa 38:12, Psa 52:2, Isa 59:4, Dan 11:27, Mat 12:34, Joh 8:44 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Jer 37:14 &#8211; said<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. 8. There are no such things done] Literally, &lsquo;it has not happened or it has not been done according to these words.&rsquo; Nehemiah contents himself with curtly retorting that there is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-nehemiah-68\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Nehemiah 6:8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}