40<\/strong>. lest that come upon you<\/em> ] viz. a moral and spiritual overthrow as great as the destruction which the Chaldans and Nebuchadnezzar wrought upon the land and people at the time of the Babylonish captivity to which the prophecy (Hab 1:5<\/span>) quoted in the next verse refers.<\/p>\n Beware, therefore – <\/B>Avoid what is threatened. It will come on some; and Paul exhorted his hearers to beware lest it should come on them. It was the more important to caution them against this danger, as the Jews held that they were safe.<\/P> Lest that come – <\/B>That calamity; that threatened punishment.<\/P> In the prophets – <\/B>In that part of the Scriptures called the Prophets. The Jews divided the Old Testament into three parts, of which the Book of the Prophets was one. See the notes on Luk 24:44<\/span>. The place where this is recorded is Hab 1:5<\/span>. It is not taken from the Hebrew, but substantially from the Septuagint. The original design of the threatening was to announce the destruction that would come upon the nation by the Chaldeans. The original threatening was fulfilled. But it was as applicable to the Jews in the time of Paul as in the time of Habakkuk. The principle of the passage is, that if they held in contempt the doings of God, they would perish. The work which God was to do by means of the Chaldeans was so fearful, so unusual, and so remarkable, that they would not believe it in time to avoid the calamity. In the same way, the manner in which God gave the Messiah was so little in accordance with their expectation, that they might see it, yet disbelieve it; that they might have the fullest proof, and yet despise it; that they might wonder, and be amazed and astonished, and yet refuse to believe it, and be destroyed.<\/P><\/p>\n Act 13:40-41<\/span><\/p>\n Beware therefore.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n A solemn warning to the ungodly<\/strong><\/p>\n We are, in this world, represented as being remarkably under the influence of self-love; but, with regard to the eternal future, the self-love of man is strangely perverted and enfeebled. One of the main objects of the sacred writings is to grapple with this fatal tendency, and one mode is to announce mens danger by reason of their sinful folly; and also the only method by which that danger can be averted. Notice–<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>The cause from which the threatened anger arises. God created the universe for His praise, and filled it with all the elements of happiness. And when we find Him going forth amid the threatenings of vengeance, to what is the change to be ascribed? To the introduction of sin. The first transgressors were angels who kept not their first estate, and are reserved, under chains and darkness, unto the judgment of the great day! Afterwards man became a sinner, and by one mans disobedience, many have been made sinners. Hence it is that there comes the threatening. Now, is there anything in this but an equitable arrangement of consequence as following cause?<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>The operations in which that wrath is manifested.<\/p>\n (1)<\/strong> We have tokens around us of the anger of God against sin. In the barrenness of the wilderness; in the scorching of the summer heat; in the withering of the wintry frost; and in disease, pestilence, and death.<\/p>\n (2)<\/strong> And then we must not forget that there are examples of His vengeance of a temporal nature. The deluge, the destruction of the cities of the Plain, the plagues of Egypt, the punishment of the Jaws, etc.<\/p>\n (3)<\/strong> And have there been no manifestations of the wrath of God against sin in modern times?<\/p>\n (4)<\/strong> But is there nothing beyond? We have spoken of temporal evils, but we hear of many announcements in the sacred writings of the wrath which is to come.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>On account of the suddenness with which it is frequently inflicted. Because there is wrath, beware lest He take thee away with a stroke. He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, aid that without remedy. There are examples which God has given, in order to illustrate and confirm these general declarations. For example, Nabad and Abihu, Korah and his company, Belshazzar, Ananias, Herod. And have we had no instance of the infliction of the wrath of God in our own times and amongst ourselves? Beware! for the wrath of God, on account of sin, may come upon you unawares.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>Because when inflicted it causes irreparable ruin. We are not speaking now of temporal evils, but of the future state (Luk 13:24-30<\/span>).<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>Men are to embrace the refuge which God has provided from the wrath to come. The Governor of the universe has, while preserving the honour of His justice, magnified the riches of His grace, and He is willing that none should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And if men, feeling their guilt and their danger, will but come unto Him in the exercise of faith, they shall be forgiven.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>The resort to the remedy which has been provided must be without delay. Why should we delay? You bare delayed long enough. You have often been invited, and often summoned to beware.<\/p>\n Remember–<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>The brevity and uncertainty of life.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>The hardening influence of sin. (J. Parsons.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Behold ye despisers, and wonder and perish<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The destruction of despisers<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>There are some who despise all religion, and reject even those fundamental principles which revelation presupposes; such as the existence and providence of God, the difference between moral good and evil, and the freedom and accountableness of man.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>There are some who pretend to believe the truths of natural religion, but despise all revelation. From the supposed sufficiency of human reason for all the purposes of religion, they conclude that no supernatural discovery ever has been or ever will be made.<\/p>\n 3. <\/strong>There are some who acknowledge in general the truth of the gospel, but despise its peculiar doctrines.<\/p>\n 4. <\/strong>There are those that profess to believe the gospel in all its essential doctrines, and yet in their hearts and lives oppose it.<\/p>\n 1. <\/strong>Destruction awaits contemptuous sinners. Whatever may be the condition of heathens, who never heard of Christ, awful must be the fate of those, who, having heard of Him, despise and refuse the only Lord who bought them. They who believe not, shall die in their sins; they are condemned already, because they believe not in the name of the only begotten Son of God. If obedience to God is necessary to salvation, faith in Christ must be necessary; for this is the command of God, That we believe on Him whom He hath sent.<\/p>\n 2. <\/strong>This destruction when it comes will be wonderful.<\/p>\n (1)<\/strong> Unexpectedly. A punishment which they little thought of will therefore fill sinners with wonder and astonishment. It is said of Jerusalem, Because she remembered not her last end, therefore she came down wonderfully. The Scripture represents the destruction of sinners, in general, as coming upon them by surprise.<\/p>\n (2)<\/strong> Exceeding all present conception. There is a strange punishment for the workers of iniquity. Some temporal judgments are so great, that they are called strange and marvellous works. How much more strange and marvellous will be the future punishment of despisers? God will perform a work which they would not believe, though a man should declare it to them. Who knows the power of Gods anger? We cannot conceive–<\/p>\n (a) <\/strong>the great anguish of a self-condemning conscience.<\/p>\n (b) <\/strong>That positive punishment which awaits sinners.<\/p>\n (c) <\/strong>The distress of total despair.<\/p>\n (3)<\/strong> Wonderful, compared with that of other sinners. Despisers will be distinguished in the world of misery from others. Moses having enumerated the singular privileges of the favoured people, says, If ye will not observe to do all the words of this law, the Lord will make your plagues wonderful. The gospel abounds in warnings of this kind. If the word spoken by angels was steadfast, etc.<\/p>\n Verse 40. Beware – lest that come upon you<\/B><\/I>, c.] If you reject these benefits, now freely offered to you in this preaching of Christ crucified, you may expect such judgment from the hand of God as your forefathers experienced, when, for their rebellion<\/I> and their contempt<\/I> of his benefits, their city<\/I> was taken<\/I>, their temple destroyed<\/I>, and themselves<\/I> either slain<\/I> by the sword, or carried into captivity<\/I>. It is evident that St. Paul refers to Hab 1:5-10<\/span> and in those verses the desolation by the Chaldeans<\/I> is foretold. Never was there a prophecy more correctly and pointedly applied. These Jews did continue<\/I> to slight the benefits offered to them by the Lord; and they persevered in their rebellion: what was the consequence? The Romans<\/I> came, took their city, burnt their temple, slew upwards of a million of them, and either carried or sold the rest into captivity. How exactly was the prophecy in both cases fulfilled!<\/P> <\/p>\n Hab 1:5<\/span>. He cautions these Jews, lest the same thing threatened by the prophet to their fathers come also upon them; for sin is as odious unto God as ever, and God is as jealous of his honour, which sin robs him of, as ever he was. <\/P> <\/p>\n 40. Beware, therefore,<\/B> &c.Bythis awful warning of the Old Testament the apostle would fain “shutthem up unto the faith.”<\/P><\/p>\n Beware therefore<\/strong>,…. Of rejecting the Gospel, and those excellent truths of it; since forgiveness of sin and a justifying righteousness are said to be had in no other way, but in and through Christ; take heed therefore,<\/p>\n lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the Prophets<\/strong>: some think that the apostle refers to two places in the Prophets, which he puts together, and therefore uses the plural number; the one in<\/p>\n Isa 28:14<\/span> from whence the character of the persons is taken, “ye despisers”, or scornful men, who are addressed; and the other in Hab 1:5<\/span> where is to be found what is said to them; but rather the latter place is what is only referred to, and is said to be, “in the Prophets”, that is, in one of the prophets; [See comments on Joh 6:45]<\/span> or in the book of the Prophets, the lesser prophets, which were together in one book, among which Habakkuk stands; the Ethiopic version reads in the singular number, “lest should come upon you the word of the prophet, saying”, as follows.<\/p>\n Beware therefore <\/B> ( <\/SPAN><\/span>). The warning is pertinent. Perhaps Paul noticed anger on the faces of some of the rabbis.<\/P> Lest there come upon you <\/B> ( <\/SPAN><\/span>). Second aorist active subjunctive with the negative final conjunction <\/SPAN><\/span>.<\/P> In the prophets <\/B> ( <\/SPAN><\/span>). The quotation is from the LXX text of Hab 1:5<\/span>. The plural here refers to the prophetic collection (Luke 24:44<\/span>; Acts 24:14<\/span>). “The Jews of Habakkuk’s day had refused to believe in the impending invasion by the Chaldeans, and yet it had come” (Furneaux). <\/P> <\/p>\n 1 ) “Beware therefore,”<\/strong> (blepete oun) “Look ye therefore,” or be ye therefore very cautious, lest by rejecting the Christ of glory, as the sacrificial atonement, you remain sinners exposed to the penalty of eternal death, Joh 8:24<\/span>; Act 4:12<\/span>.<\/p>\n 2) “Lest that come upon you,”<\/strong> (me epelthe to) “Lest the thing come upon or overtake you all,” in your rebellion, lest that measure of God’s judgement come upon you, Pro 1:22-28<\/span>; Pro 29:1<\/span>.<\/p>\n 3) “Which is spoken of in the prophets;”<\/strong> (eiremenon en tois prophetais) “Which has been spoken in the testimony of the prophets,” expressed especially in Heb 1:5<\/span>. This refers to specific judgement for persistence in known sins and rebellion against God. Men can not defy the word, will, and call of God without experiencing or facing divine judgement, Act 17:30-31<\/span>; Heb 9:27-28<\/span>; Rom 2:4-8<\/span>.<\/p>\n 40. Take heed that that come not upon you. Because he had to do with stiff-necked men, or at least there were diverse in the company which were stiff-necked (as if he meant with a hammer to soften their stubbornnesses) he addeth a chiding unto doctrine. For if the Jews had been obedient and willing to obey, undoubtedly he would have sought sweetly to allure them unto Christ. But it was either their sluggishness, or else their willfulness, that caused him to be more angry; like as all those must be cited to appear before God’s judgment-seat who contemn the grace of Christ and the horrible judgment of eternal death must be denounced to those. He signifieth, indeed, that there is yet place left for repentance, when he willeth (825) them to take heed; yet, notwithstanding, he telleth them therewithal, that unless they beware in time, the horrible vengeance of God is not far off. <\/p>\n Which is said in the prophets. The place which is cited is taken out of the first chapter of Habakkuk, (Hab 1:5<\/span>\ud83d\ude09 but because all prophecies were gathered into one volume or body, Paul saith that it is written in the prophets. <\/p>\n (825) “ Hortatur,” exhorteth. <\/p>\n (40) Which is spoken of in the prophets.<\/strong>This formula of citation seems to have been common, as in Act. 7:42<\/span>, in the case of quotations from the Minor Prophets, which were regarded, as it were, as a single volume with this title.<\/p>\n 40<\/strong>. <\/strong> Beware therefore<\/strong> Having unfolded the Gospel, Paul now warns them against the perdition resulting from its rejection.<\/p>\n “Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets, ‘Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, if one declare it to you.’ ”<\/p>\n But what of those who did not respond. Let them beware, says Paul. Let them remember the words of Habakkuk the prophet in Hab 1:5<\/span>. ‘Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish, for I work a work in your days, A work which you shall in no wise believe, if one declare it to you.’ It is the principle behind these words that is in mind not the context. It is a warning that when God works it is time to take note. For those who become aware of God’s working and ignore it end up wondering and perishing. When awesome things are happening which appear to be unbelievable, it is wise to see God’s hand in it and respond.<\/p>\n The context of Habakkuk’s words was the approach of the invaders. The Babylonians were coming and there would be such things occurring as would be beyond belief. And sadly Israel were so blind to God’s working that it would inevitably come on them. They would suffer the consequences precisely because they could not believe that it was of God, and that God would do what He had said. And yet as he would go on to point out, those who were righteous by faith would live (Act 2:4<\/span>). Those whose hearts were open towards God would be accepted by Him and would have life.<\/p>\n And the same was true for Paul’s listeners. God had worked an even greater wonder in their day. Would they wonder and perish because they were unbelievers? Or would they respond and believe and find life and forgiveness through His Name?<\/p>\n Act 13:40-41<\/span> . ] in volumine prophetarum<\/em> , Luk 24:44<\/span> ; Joh 6:45<\/span> .<\/p>\n Hab 1:5<\/span> is here quoted, according to the LXX. (which, instead of , probably read ), from memory with an unimportant deviation. In the announcement of the penal judgments to be executed by means of the Chaldaeans, which are in Hab. l.c. threatened against the degenerate Jewish nation, the apostle sees a divine threatening, the execution of which, in the Messianic sense, would ensue at the impending last judgment by the punishment befalling the unbelieving Israelites. The divine threatening preserves its power and validity even to the end, and has then its last and highest fulfilment. This last Messianic judgment of God not the ruin of the Jewish war (Wetstein and others) is here the .<\/p>\n ] vanish, come to nought. Comp. Philostr. Imag. i. 26 : , . Jas 4:14<\/span> . So very often in classical writers. See Toup, Em. in Suid. I. p. 92. The coming to nought through terror is meant.<\/p>\n ] The present denotes what God was just on the point of doing. The annexed (I, whom you despise) has the emphasis of divine authority.<\/p>\n ] A rhetorically weighty anaphora, and hence without . Comp. Buttmann, neut. Gr. p. 341 [E. T. 398]. Krger, lix. 1. 3 f.<\/p>\n ] tells it quite to the end. Comp. Act 15:3<\/span> ; Job 7:3<\/span> ; Sir 39:12 ; Sir 43:31 ; Sir 44:8 ; Joseph. Antt. v. 8. 3; Bell. v. 13. 7.<\/p>\n 40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Ver. 40. Beware therefore lest<\/strong> ] Ministers must mix law and gospel together in their discourses. Sour and sweet make the best sauce. <\/p>\n 40.<\/strong> ] The object of preaching the Gospel to the Jews first<\/em> was for a testimony to them: its reception was almost uniformly unfavourable: and against such anticipated rejection he now warns them.<\/p>\n <\/strong> .<\/strong> ] The book of the prophets: see ch. Act 3:18<\/span> , note.<\/p>\n Act 13:40<\/span> . ., cf.<\/em> Luk 24:44<\/span> , and Act 24:14<\/span> ; Joh 6:45<\/span> . : quite Lucan in this sense, cf.<\/em> Act 8:24<\/span> , Luk 11:22<\/span> ; Luk 21:26<\/span> (Jas 5:1<\/span> ).<\/p>\n Beware = See. Greek. blepo. App-133. <\/p>\n lest. Greek. me. App-105. <\/p>\n upon. Greek. epi. App-104. But the texts omit “upon you”. <\/p>\n 40.] The object of preaching the Gospel to the Jews first was for a testimony to them: its reception was almost uniformly unfavourable: and against such anticipated rejection he now warns them.<\/p>\n .] The book of the prophets: see ch. Act 3:18, note.<\/p>\n Act 13:40. , beware) An admonition, as yet unaccompanied with censure, but yet one of a serious kind.- ) in the Twelve prophets; namely, in Hab 1:5.<\/p>\n Beware: Mal 3:2, Mal 4:1, Mat 3:9-12, Heb 2:3, Heb 3:12, Heb 12:25 <\/p>\n which: Isa 29:14, Hab 1:5 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Pro 19:29 – Judgments Isa 28:22 – be ye Isa 29:9 – and wonder Eze 33:9 – if thou Dan 11:31 – maketh desolate Mat 7:15 – Beware Mat 21:42 – and it is Mar 12:11 – General Luk 10:11 – notwithstanding<\/p>\n 0<\/p>\n Act 13:40. Paul referred to a statement in Hab 1:5.<\/p>\n Act 13:40. In the prophets. The general warnings contained in that volume of the Old Testament Scriptures so named by the Jews. They are to beware lest the terrible denunciations of the old prophets find their fulfilment in them.<\/p>\n Act 13:40-41. Beware, therefore A weighty and reasonable admonition with which the apostle enforces the very important doctrine which he had just delivered. No reproof is, as yet, added to it: lest that come upon you which is spoken of in the prophets The apostle refers to Hab 1:5, where the destruction of the Jewish nation by the Chaldeans is foretold, as an incredible and unparalleled destruction; and that prophecy is here, with the greatest propriety and correctness, applied to the destruction which was coming on that nation by the Romans, for rejecting the gospel of Christ. The apostle follows the Septuagint translation, which, reading, it seems, , despisers, instead of , among the nations, renders the clause, , , , , See, ye despisers, and behold, and wonder with astonishment, and disappear, or perish; words exactly the same with those used here by the apostle, according to Luke, save that the apostle omits , and . It is as if the apostle had said, See that the same thing do not happen to you which formerly happened to your ancestors, when the city and temple were destroyed, and they themselves were carried into captivity for despising Gods blessings. So Grotius. Or, as Dr. Hammond paraphrases the passage, You are therefore nearly concerned to take heed and beware, that by your obstinately resisting and rejecting this way of salvation now preached, you do not bring destruction upon yourselves, and cause the gospel to be removed to the Gentiles, (Act 13:46,) which is a thing that will come to pass suddenly, though so incredible to you, that you will not believe it when the news of it shall come unto you by them that see it done. The work here spoken of, which the apostle says they would not believe, though credibly attested to them, may be either, 1st, Gods great work of redeeming the world by Christ, a work which the Jews would in no wise believe, according to Isa 53:1, Who hath believed our report? or, 2d, The work of their destruction as a nation; the dissolving of their polity; the taking of the kingdom of God from them, and giving it to the Gentiles; the destruction of their temple and city, and the dispersion of their people: an awful work of God this, which one would not have believed should ever have been wrought, considering how much they had been the favourites of Heaven. What was said (Lam 4:12) of the calamities which befell them by the Chaldeans, was more especially true of their last destruction: all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed that the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem, and have made such destruction, burning the city and temple, slaying upward of a million of people, and either carrying or selling the rest into captivity: so that no prophecy could be more properly applied, the former destruction being a lively emblem of the latter.<\/p>\n 40, 41. This passage in Paul’s speech was most unwelcome to his Jewish hearers. It was an express disparagement of the law of Moses such as always fell harshly upon Jewish ears. We consequently see in the next and last paragraph of the speech an indication of a change in the aspect of the audience. It is only an audience in whom a most unfavorable change is discernible, that so watchful a speaker could address in these words: (40) “Beware, then, lest that which is said in the prophets come upon you; (41) Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish; for I do a work in your days, a work which you will not believe though one should fully declare it to you.” No doubt some evidence of their incredulity was visible in their countenances, if it was not exhibited by audible murmurings. The force of the quotation was to show, that if they did reject the gospel, they would only be identifying themselves with a class of whom this conduct had been predicted.<\/p>\n The surprise expressed by the prophet, that they would not believe though one should declare it to them, does not assume that they should believe facts so astounding upon the mere assertion of an individual; but the object of surprise is, that they would not believe though one should declare it fully to them, that is, with all the incontestable evidences of its reality. Undoubtedly the work referred to by the apostle, in his application of the prophet’s language, is the work of raising up a savior to Israel in the person of Jesus. <\/p>\n 40-41. He here quotes Hab 1:5, in which the prophets warned them lest they reject the glorious tidings of their crucified, risen and ascended Lord, and be plunged into hopeless ruin.<\/p>\n 13:40 {16} Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;<\/p>\n (16) The benefits of God turn to the utter undoing of those that condemn them.<\/p>\n Paul concluded by applying Habakkuk’s warning to all who reject the good news about Jesus Christ. God’s working in their day (i.e., providing the Messiah) was something they could not afford to disbelieve and scoff at or they would perish.<\/p>\n "Hab 1:5, which Paul quoted here, refers to an invasion of Judah by a Gentile nation that would be used as God’s disciplinary instrument to punish Judah for her disobedience. Paul evidently saw his generation in Israel under a similar disciplinary judgment. Paul’s message, like Peter’s [on the day of Pentecost] was delivered to a generation in Israel under the judgment Christ had predicted [in Luk 21:24, i.e., the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70]." [Note: Pentecost, "The Apostles’ . . .," p. 140.] <\/span><\/p>\n In a larger sense, of course, unbelieving scoffers perish eternally for rejecting the gospel.<\/p>\n "Parallel with the positive theme of the preparation for the coming of the Christ through Abraham, Moses, Samuel, David and John the Baptist, he [Paul] has interwoven an admonitory reminder of those who have failed to recognize the divine plan and purpose-the Canaanites, Saul, the Jerusalem Jews and Pilate. Now he presents the Dispersion Jews with a similar challenge to accept or refuse the Gospel message." [Note: Neil, p. 160.] <\/span><\/p>\n Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; 40. lest that come upon you ] viz. a moral and spiritual overthrow as great as the destruction which the Chaldans and Nebuchadnezzar wrought upon the land and people at the time of the Babylonish captivity to which the prophecy (Hab … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Acts 13:40”<\/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-27361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27361","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=27361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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I. <\/strong>The infliction to which this solemn caution relates. What is it that we have to beware of? You will find in the context that it is the anger, or the wrath of God (Act 13:41<\/span>; Isa 29:14<\/span>; Hab 1:5<\/span>). Observe–<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>The considerations by which this solemn caution may be especially enforced. Beware of this wrath–<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>The conduct to which this solemn caution should lead.<\/p>\n
I.<\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>The character of these despisers.<\/p>\n
II. <\/strong>In what respects, it may be said, they will perish wonderfully. Here are two things asserted.<\/p>\n
III. <\/strong>Let me enforce the caution in the text. Beware, etc. In mercy to our guilty world, God has sent His Son to make the purchase, proclaim the offers, and state the terms of eternal salvation. To us the word of this salvation is sent. The question now proposed is, Will you accept it? If you will accept the benefit you must submit to the terms of it. You must repent and yield to the government of the gospel of Christ. If you will not do this, you despise His gospel, and all the blessings which it reveals. Consider what it is that you despise. It is a gospel preached by the Son of God from heaven; confirmed by miracles, preserved in the world by a merciful providence, and transmitted to you by peculiar favour. How worthy, then, of your thankful acceptation! To despise this is to despise that pearl of great price, to purchase which you should be willing to sell all that you have. To despise this is to despise Gods greatest gift, even the gift of His own Son, who came to seek and to save them who were lost. Judge, now, what must be the consequence of this contempt. Know ye, that your judgment lingers not. The Lord will soon arise, that He may do His strange work. (J. Lathrop, D. D.<\/em>)<\/p>\nFuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Greek Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries (New Testament)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: William Godbey’s Commentary on the New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"