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Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
1. Talk with thee - Not by way of accusing thee, but for my own satisfaction concerning thy judicial dispensations in the government of the world. Wherefore - I know thy ways are just and righteous, but they are dark; I cannot understand why thou doest this.
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
1. Eat - This was done in a vision. Findeth - In the hand which was sent to him. 3. Belly - The mouth is the proper instrument of eating, but when meat is digested, the belly is said to eat.
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
2. With a bowl - Or basin. His seven lamps - The temple candlestick had just so many. And seven pipes - So each of the lamps had a pipe reaching from it to the bowl.
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
2. Azariah - Two sons called by the same name, though doubtless distinguished by some additional title: which is not mentioned here, because it did not concern succeeding ages to know it.
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
2. Thy congregation - Thy people. Thine inheritance - The tribe of Judah, which thou hast in a special manner chosen for thine inheritance, and for the birth of the Messiah.
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
3. Pass - By way of oblation, so as to be consumed for a burnt- offering, which was the practice of Heathens, and of some Israelites, in imitation of them.…
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
6. The chief - It is observable, that he is not called the chief priest, or high-priest, but only the chief, or the head, which he might be in many other respects,…
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
1. For the princes - Jehoahaz, Jehoiachim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah. 2. What - What resemblance shall I use to set out the nature, deportment, and state of the mother of these princes?…
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
2. Know - Chosen, adopted to be my peculiar ones. Therefore - Because you have all these obligations and abused all these mercies.…
Wesley's Notes on the Bible by Wesley, John (1703-1791)
2. The end - Of God's patience towards Israel, the end of their ripening, they are now fully ripe, fit to be gathered. Pass by them - God had with admirable patience spared,…