The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 5
Overview
This volume includes a verse by verse commentary on Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the text of the King James Version, Ellen G. White’s Comments, 28 tables and illustrations, and 20 maps. It also includes these general articles: The Period Between the Testaments; The Jews of the First Christian Century; Ancient Jewish Literature; The Language, Manuscripts, and Canon of the New Testament; "Lower" and "Higher" Biblical Criticism; The Fourfold Gospel Narrative; and A Basis for New Testament Chronology.
Top Highlights
“Jesus knows by experience what humanity can endure, and He has promised to temper the power of the tempter according to our individual strength to endure, and to ‘provide the way of escape’ (1 Cor. 10:13, RSV). Within the domain of every human heart the great conflict through which Christ passed in the wilderness of temptation is repeated. Without testing—without the opportunity to choose to do right or to do wrong—there can be no character development. It is by resisting temptation that we develop power to withstand temptation.” (Page 309)
“Meekness is the attitude of heart and mind and life that prepares the way for sanctification. A ‘meek’ spirit ‘is in the sight of God of great price’ (1 Peter 3:4). ‘Meekness’ is often mentioned by NT writers as a cardinal Christian virtue (see Gal. 5:23; 1 Tim. 6:11). ‘Meekness’ toward God means that we accept His will and His dealing with us as good, that we submit to Him in all things, without hesitation (cf. MB 15). A ‘meek’ man has self under complete control. Through self-exaltation our first parents lost the kingdom entrusted to them; through meekness it may be regained (MB 17). See on Micah 6:8.” (Pages 325–326)
“In all of these illustrations Christ has shown that, in the kingdom He came to establish, it is the inner attitudes and motives that determine perfection of character, and not the outward acts alone. Man may look on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart (1 Sam. 16:7).” (Page 341)
“Truly to pray ‘lead us not into temptation’ is to renounce the ways of our own choosing and to submit to the ways of God’s choosing.” (Page 347)
- Title: The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 5
- Author: Francis D. Nichol
- Series: Seventh-day Adventist Commentary
- Publisher: Review & Herald
- Print Publication Date: 1980
- Logos Release Date: 2002
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. Matthew › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. Mark › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. Luke › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. John › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:900.3.1902
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T17:10:50Z