OT.filter - geneva itself:

geneva@Genesis:1:11 @ And God said, (note:)So that we see it is the only the power of God's word that makes the earth fruitful, which naturally is barren.(:note) Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

geneva@Genesis:1:12 @ And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God (note:)This sentence is often repeated, to signify that God made all his creatures to serve for his glory and for the profit of man: but because of sin they were cursed, yet the elect, by Christ are restored, and serve to their wealth.(:note) saw that [it was] good.

geneva@Genesis:4:10 @ And he said, What hast thou done? the (note:)God avenges the wrongs against his saints, though no one complains: for the iniquity itself cries for vengeance.(:note) voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

geneva@Exodus:12:11 @ And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: (note:)The lamb was not the Passover, but signified it, as ordinances are not the thing itself which they represent, but rather they signify it.(:note) it [is] the LORD'S passover.

geneva@Leviticus:18:25 @ And the land is defiled: therefore I do (note:)I will punish the land where such incestuous marriages and pollutions are tolerated.(:note) visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself He compares the wicked to evil humours and overeating, which corrupt the stomach, and oppress nature, and therefore must be cast out by vomit. vomiteth out her inhabitants.

geneva@Leviticus:27:31 @ And if a man will at all redeem [ought] of his tithes, he shall add thereto the (note:)Besides the value of the thing itself.(:note) fifth [part] thereof.

geneva@Deuteronomy:14:21 @ Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that (note:)Because their blood was not shed, but remains in them.(:note) dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the Who is not of your religion. stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

geneva@Joshua:17:8 @ [Now] Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but (note:)Meaning, the city itself.(:note) Tappuah on the border of Manasseh [belonged] to the children of Ephraim;

geneva@2Chronicles:10:15 @ So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the (note:)God's will overrides all so that nothing can be done but according to the same, and yet man's will works by itself, so that he cannot use the excuse that his deed was of God's ordinance.(:note) cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

geneva@Nehemiah:6:17 @ Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many (note:)Thus the Church of God always has enemies within itself, which is more dangerous than outward and professed enemies.(:note) letters unto Tobiah, and [the letters] of Tobiah came unto them.

geneva@Job:10:22 @ A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any (note:)No distinction between light and darkness but where there is very darkness itself.(:note) order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.

geneva@Job:26:11 @ The (note:)Not that heaven has pillars to uphold it, but he speaks by a similitude as though he would say heaven itself is not able to abide his reproach.(:note) pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

geneva@Psalms:34:22 @ The LORD (note:)For when they seem to be overcome with great dangers and death itself, then God shows himself as their redeemer.(:note) redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

geneva@Psalms:41:6 @ And if he come to see [me], he speaketh (note:)For pretending to comfort me, he conspires my death in his heart, and brags of it.(:note) vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; [when] he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].

geneva@Psalms:106:24 @ Yea, they despised (note:)That is Canaan, which acted as a promise of the heavenly inheritance to come, though it was only worth a penny in comparison to the value of the inheritance itself.(:note) the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

geneva@Proverbs:18:2 @ A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may (note:)That is, that he may talk licentiously of whatever comes to mind.(:note) reveal itself.

geneva@Isaiah:10:15 @ Shall the (note:)Here we see that no creature is able to do anything, but as God appoints him, and that they are all his instruments to do his work though the intentions are diverse, as in (Isa_10:6).(:note) axe boast itself against him that heweth with it? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it, [or] as if the staff should lift [itself, as if it were] no wood.

geneva@Isaiah:29:16 @ Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed (note:)For all your craft says the Lord, you are not able to escape my hands any more than the clay that is in the potter's hands has power to deliver itself.(:note) as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing formed say of him that formed it, He had no understanding?

geneva@Isaiah:37:30 @ And this [shall be] a (note:)God gives signs after two sorts: some go before the thing as the signs that Moses worked in Egypt, which were for the confirmation of their faith, and some go after the thing, as the sacrifice, which they were commanded to make three days after their departure: and these latter are to keep the blessings of God in our remembrance, of which sort this here is.(:note) sign to thee, Ye shall eat [this] year such as groweth of itself; and the He promises that for two years the ground would feed them of itself. second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

geneva@Isaiah:53:6 @ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the (note:)Meaning, the punishment of our iniquity, and not the fault itself.(:note) iniquity of us all.

geneva@Isaiah:55:2 @ Why do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? (note:)He reproves their ingratitude, who refuse those things that God offers willingly, and in the mean time spare neither cost nor labour to obtain those which are not profitable.(:note) and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken diligently to me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in You will be fed abundantly. fatness.

geneva@Isaiah:59:16 @ And he saw that [there was] no man, and wondered that [there was] no intercessor: (note:)Meaning, to do justice, and to remedy the things that were so far out of order.(:note) therefore his arm brought That is, his Church or his arm helped itself and did not seek aid from any other. salvation to him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

geneva@Isaiah:60:7 @ All the flocks of (note:)That is the Arabians, that have great abundance of cattle.(:note) Kedar shall be gathered together to thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to thee: they shall come up with acceptance on my Because the altar was a figure of Christ, (Heb_13:10), he shows that nothing can be acceptable to him, which is not offered to him by this altar, who was both the offering and the altar itself. altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.

geneva@Jeremiah:1:10 @ See, I have this day set thee over the (note:)He shows what is the authority of God's true ministers, who by his word have power to bear down whatever lifts itself up against God: and to plant and assure the humble and such as give themselves to the obedience of God's word, (2Co_10:4-5; Heb_4:12), and these are the keys which Christ has left to loose and bind, (Mat_18:18).(:note) nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

geneva@Jeremiah:28:17 @ So Hananiah the prophet (note:)Seeing this thing was evident in the eyes of the people and yet they returned not to the Lord, it is manifest that miracles cannot move us, neither the word itself, unless God touch the heart.(:note) died the same year in the seventh month.

geneva@Jeremiah:48:11 @ Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been (note:)Has not been removed as the Jews have, but have lived at ease, and as a wine that feeds itself on his lees.(:note) emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

geneva@Ezekiel:1:4 @ And I looked, and, behold, a (note:)By this diversity of words he signifies the fearful judgment of God and the great afflictions that would come on Jerusalem.(:note) whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness [was] about it, and from the midst of it as the colour of amber, from the midst of the fire.

geneva@Ezekiel:4:14 @ Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither hath (note:)Much less such vile corruption.(:note) abominable flesh come into my mouth.

geneva@Daniel:2:38 @ And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou [art] (note:)Daniel leaves out the kingdom of the Assyrians, which was before the Babylonian, both because it was not a monarchy and general empire, and also because he would declare the things that were to come, until the coming of Christ, for the comfort of the elect among these wonderful alterations. And he calls the Babylonian kingdom the golden head, because in respect of the other three, it was the best, and yet it was of itself wicked and cruel.(:note) this head of gold.

geneva@Daniel:7:5 @ And behold another beast, a second, like to a (note:)Meaning the Persians who were barbarous and cruel.(:note) bear, and it raised up itself on They were small in the beginning, and were shut up in the mountains, and had no strength. one side, and [it had] three ribs in the That is, destroyed many kingdoms and whose hunger could not be satisfied. mouth of it between the teeth of it: That is, the angels by God's commandment, who by this means punished the ingratitude of the world. and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

geneva@Hosea:8:7 @ For they have (note:)Showing that their religion has but a show, and in itself is but vanity.(:note) sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

geneva@Micah:7:13 @ Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of (note:)Before this grace appears, he shows how grievously the hypocrites themselves will be punished, seeing that the earth itself, which cannot sin, will be made waste because of their wickedness.(:note) their doings.

geneva@Habakkuk:2:11 @ For the (note:)The stones of the house will cry, and say that they are built from blood, and the wood will answer and say the same of itself.(:note) stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

geneva@Haggai:2:12 @ If one bear (note:)That is, the flesh of the sacrifices, by which he means that a thing which of itself is good, cannot make another thing so: and therefore they ought not to justify themselves by their sacrifices and ceremonies: but contrary to this, he that is unclean and not pure of heart, does corrupt those things and make them detestable to God, which otherwise are good and godly.(:note) holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

geneva@Zechariah:7:5 @ Speak to all the people of the land, and to the (note:)For there were both of the people, and of the priests, those who doubted with regard to this controversy, besides those who as yet remained in Chaldea, and argue about it, as of one of the chief points of their religion.(:note) priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh [month], even those seventy years, did ye at all fast to me, For they thought they had gained favour with God because of this fast, which they invented by themselves: and though fasting of itself is good, yet because they thought it a service toward God, and trusted in it, it is here reproved. [even] to me?

geneva@Zechariah:11:1 @ Open thy doors, O (note:)Because the Jews thought themselves so strong by reason of this mountain, that no enemy could come to hurt them, the Prophet shows that when God sends the enemies, it will show itself ready to receive them.(:note) Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.