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geneva@Numbers:34:11 @ And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of (note:)Which in the Gospel is called the lake of Gennesaret.(:note) Chinnereth eastward:

geneva@Psalms:78:1 @ «(note:)Read (Psa_32:1).(:note) Maschil of Asaph.» Give ear, O my people, [to] my The prophet under the name of a teacher calls the people his, and the doctrine his, as Paul calls the gospel his, of which he was but the preacher, as in (Rom_2:16, Rom_16:25). law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

geneva@Psalms:81:1 @ «To the chief Musician upon (note:)An instrument of music brought from Geth.(:note) Gittith, [A Psalm] of Asaph.» Sing It seems that this psalm was appointed for solemn feasts and assemblies of the people to whom for a time these ceremonies were ordained, but now under the gospel are abolished. aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

geneva@Psalms:97:1 @ The (note:)He shows that where God reigns, there is all happiness and spiritual joy.(:note) LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the For the gospel will not only be preached in Judea, but through all isles and countries. multitude of isles be glad [thereof].

geneva@Isaiah:2:3 @ And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to (note:)Alluding to mount Zion, where the visible Church then was.(:note) the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the Meaning, the whole doctrine of salvation. law, and the word of the LORD from This was accomplished when the gospel was first preached in Jerusalem, and from there went through all the world. Jerusalem.

geneva@Isaiah:2:4 @ And (note:)The Lord, who is Christ, will have all power given to him.(:note) he shall judge among the nations, and shall That they may acknowledge their sins, and turn to him. rebuke many people: and they shall He shows the fruit of the peace which the gospel should bring, that is, that men should do good to one another, while before they were enemies. beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn He speaks not against the use of weapons and lawful war, but shows how the hearts of the godly will be affected one toward another, which peace and love begin and grow in this life, but will be perfected when we are joined with our head Jesus Christ. war any more.

geneva@Isaiah:23:18 @ And her merchandise and her hire shall be (note:)He shows that God yet by the preaching of the gospel will call Tyre to repentance and turn her heart from evil and filthy gain, to the true worshipping of God, and liberality toward his saints.(:note) holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, for sufficient food and for durable clothing.

geneva@Isaiah:24:14 @ They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from (note:)From the utmost coasts of the world, where the gospel will be preached as in (Isa_24:16).(:note) the sea.

geneva@Isaiah:24:16 @ From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, [even] glory to the (note:)Meaning to God, who will publish his gospel through all the world.(:note) righteous. But I said, I am consumed with care, considering the affliction of the Church, both by foreign enemies and domestic. Some read, My secret, my secret: that is, it was revealed to the prophet, that the good would be preserved and the wicked destroyed. My leanness, my leanness, woe to me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

geneva@Isaiah:49:6 @ And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give (note:)To declare my gospel to the Gentiles, as in (Isa_42:6; Act_13:47; Luk_2:32).(:note) thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation to the end of the earth.

geneva@Isaiah:66:8 @ Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one (note:)This will pass the capacity of man to see such a multitude that will come up at once, meaning under the preaching of the gospel of which they who came out of Babylon were a sign.(:note) day? [or] shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

geneva@Daniel:7:22 @ Until (note:)...the preaching of the Gospel gave...(:note) the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

geneva@Daniel:7:27 @ And the (note:)...the preaching of the Gospel enjoy...«under the whole heaven». And therefore he speaks here of the beginning of Christ's kingdom in this world, which kingdom the faithful have by the participation that they have with Christ their head.(:note) kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and all That is, some of every type that rule. dominions shall serve and obey him.

geneva@Daniel:9:27 @ And he (note:)...the preaching of the Gospel he...(:note) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to Christ accomplished this by his death and resurrection. cease, Meaning that Jerusalem and the sanctuary would be utterly destroyed because of their rebellion against God, and their idolatry: or as some read, that the plague will be so great, that they will all be astonished at them. and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

geneva@Joel:2:28 @ And it shall come to pass afterward, [that] I will pour (note:)...his Spirit under the Gospel were...(Isa_44:3; Act_2:17) (Joh_7:38-39).(:note) out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream As they had visions and dreams in ancient times, so will they now have clearer revelations. dreams, your young men shall see visions:

geneva@Zechariah:2:4 @ And said to him, Run, speak to this (note:)Meaning himself, Zechariah.(:note) young man, saying, ...be extended by the Gospel through... Jerusalem shall be inhabited [as] towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle in it:

geneva@Matthew:4:23 @ And (note:)Christ assures the hearts of the believers of his spiritual and saving virtue, by healing the diseases of the body.(:note) Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in Their, that is, the Galilaeans. their Synagogues, that is, the Churches of the Jews. synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the Of the Messiah. kingdom, and healing Diseases of all kinds, but not every disease: that is, as we say, some of every kind. all manner of sickness and all manner of The word properly signifies the weakness of the stomach: but here it is taken for those diseases which make those that have them faint and wear away. disease among the people.

geneva@Matthew:9:35 @...Synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of...

geneva@Matthew:10:1 @ And (note:)The apostles are sent to preach the gospel in Israel.(:note) when he had called unto [him] his twelve disciples, he gave them power [against] unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

geneva@Matthew:11:11 @ Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the (note:)In the new state of the Church where the true glory of God shines: the people are not compared together, but the types of doctrines, the preaching of John with the law and the prophets: and again, the most clear preaching of the gospel is compared with John's.(:note) kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

geneva@Matthew:11:19 @ The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. (note:)That which the many refuse, the elect and chosen embrace.(:note) But Wise men acknowledge the wisdom of the gospel when they receive it. wisdom is justified of her children.

geneva@Matthew:22:1 @ And (note:)Not all of the whole company of those that are called by the voice of the gospel are the true Church before God: for the most part of them would rather follow the conveniences of this life: and some persecute very cruelly those that call them: but they are the true Church who obey when they are called, such as for the most part are those whom the world despises.(:note) Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

geneva@Matthew:22:10 @ So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both (note:)The general calling offers the gospel to all men: but those who enter in have their life examined.(:note) bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

geneva@Matthew:24:14 @ And this (note:)Joyful tidings of the kingdom of heaven.(:note) gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the Through all that part of the world that people live in. world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

geneva@Matthew:26:13 @...vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospel shall...

geneva@Mark:1:1 @...The beginning of the Gospel of...

geneva@Mark:13:10 ...And the Gospel must...

geneva@Mark:14:9 @...vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospel shall...

geneva@Luke:1:1 @ Forasmuch as (note:)Luke commends the witnesses that saw this present account.(:note) many have Many took it in hand, but did not perform: Luke wrote his gospel before Matthew and Mark. taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

geneva@Luke:1:3 @ It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things (note:)Luke began his gospel a great deal further in the past than the others did.(:note) from the very first, to write unto thee in order, It is «most mighty», and therefore Theophilus was a very honourable man, and in a place of great dignity. most excellent Theophilus,

geneva@Luke:3:1 @ Now (note:)John comes at the time foretold by the prophets and lays the foundation of the gospel which is exhibited unto us, setting forth the true observing of the law and free mercy in Christ, which comes after John, using also baptism which is the outward sign both of regeneration and also forgiveness of sins.(:note) in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

geneva@Luke:4:18 @...I should preach the Gospel to...

geneva@Luke:9:4 @ And whatsoever house ye enter into, there (note:)When you depart out of any city, depart from that place where you first took up your lodging: so that in these few words the Lord forbids them to change their lodgings: for this publishing of the gospel was as it were a publishing throughout the whole land, that no one in Judea might pretend ignorance, as though he had not heard that Christ had come.(:note) abide, and thence depart.

geneva@John:16:1 @ These (note:)The ministers of the gospel must expect all types of reproaches, not only by those who are open enemies, but even by those also who seem to be of the same household, and the very pillars of the Church.(:note) things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.

geneva@Acts:8:25 @ So they, when they had testified &...Hierusalem, and preached the Gospel in...

geneva@Acts:14:1 @ And (note:)...the preaching of the Gospel than...(:note) it came to pass in Iconium was a city of Lycaonia. Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.

geneva@Acts:18:1 @ After (note:)...the course of the Gospel in...(:note) these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;

geneva@Romans:1:1 @ Paul, (note:)The first part of the epistle contains a most profitable preface down to verse six.(:note) a Paul, exhorting the Romans to give diligent heed to him, in that he shows that he comes not in his own name, but as God's messenger to the Gentiles, entreats them with the weightiest matter that exists, promised long ago by God, by many good witnesses, and now at length indeed performed.Minister, for this word «servant» is not taken in this place as set against the word «freeman», but rather refers to and declares his ministry and office. servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an Whereas he said before in a general term that he was a minister, now he comes to a more special name, and says that he is an apostle, and that he did not take this office upon himself by his own doing, but that he was called by God, and therefore in this letter of his to the Romans he is doing nothing but his duty. apostle, Appointed by God to preach the gospel. separated unto the gospel of God,

geneva@Romans:1:9 @ For God is my witness, whom I serve with my (note:)Very willingly and with all my heart.(:note) spirit in the In preaching his Son. gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

geneva@Romans:1:15 @ So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at (note:)He means all those who dwell at Rome, though some of them were not Romans; see the end of the epistle.(:note) Rome also.

geneva@Romans:1:16 @ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: (note:)This is the second part of the epistle, until the beginning of chapter nine. Now the whole end and purpose of the discussion is this: that is to say, to show that there is but one way to attain unto salvation (which is displayed to us by God in the gospel, and that equally to every nation), and this way is Jesus Christ apprehended by faith.(:note) for it is the God's mighty and effectual instrument to save men by. power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the When this word «Greek» is contrasted with the word «Jew», then it signifies a Gentile. Greek.

geneva@Romans:11:12 @ Now if the fall of them [be] the (note:)By «riches»...the knowledge of the Gospel to...«world», all nations dispersed throughout the whole world.(:note) riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their Of the Jews, when the whole nation without exception will come to Christ. fulness?

geneva@Romans:15:16 @ That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the (note:)By the offering up of the Gentiles, he means the Gentiles themselves, whom he offered to God as a sacrifice.(:note) offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

geneva@Romans:15:19 @ Through (note:)In the first place this word «mighty» signifies the force and working of the wonders in piercing men's minds: and in the latter, it signifies God's mighty power which was the worker of those wonders.(:note) mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

geneva@1Corinthians:1:30 @ But (note:)Whom he cast down before, now he lifts up, indeed, higher than all men: yet in such a way that he shows them that all their worthiness is outside of themselves, that is, it stands in Christ, and that of God.(:note) of him are ye in Christ Jesus, ...above all things, the Gospel ought... who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

geneva@1Corinthians:6:1 @ Dare (note:)The third question is of civil judgments. Whether it is lawful for one of the faithful to draw another of the faithful before the judgment seat of an infidel? He answers that is not lawful because it is an offence for the faithful to do this, for it is not evil in itself that a matter be brought before the judgment seat, even of an infidel.(:note)As if he said, «...ashamed to make the Gospel a...» any of you, having a matter against another, go to law Before the unjust. before the unjust, He adds that he does not forbid that one neighbour may go to law with another, if need so require, but yet under holy judges. and not before the saints?

geneva@1Corinthians:9:14 @ Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live (note:)Because they preach the Gospel. It follows by this place, that Paul received no living, neither would have any other man receive, by a commodity of masses, or any other such superstitious nonsense.(:note) of the gospel.

geneva@1Corinthians:9:15 @ But I have used none of these things: (note:)...so much for the Gospel's sake,...(as much as I could) I am made all things to all men, that I might win them to Christ, and might together with them be won to Christ.(:note) neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for [it were] better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

geneva@1Corinthians:9:18 @ What is my reward then? [Verily] that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ (note:)By taking nothing from those to whom I preach it.(:note) without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

geneva@1Corinthians:15:1 @ Moreover, (note:)...chief point of the Gospel, which...(:note) brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye In the profession of which you still continue. stand;

geneva@2Corinthians:4:4 @ In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the (note:)The light of plain and enlightening preaching, which shows forth the glory of Christ.(:note) light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the In whom the Father sets himself forth to be seen and beheld. image of God, should shine unto them.

geneva@2Corinthians:6:1 @ We (note:)...be partakers of the Gospel, but...(:note) then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

geneva@2Corinthians:8:18 @ And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise [is] (note:)...the preaching of the Gospel....(:note) in the gospel throughout all the churches;

geneva@2Corinthians:9:13 @ Whiles by the (note:)By this proof of your liberality in this helping of them.(:note) experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your ...that you acknowledge that Gospel alone... professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for [your] liberal distribution unto them, and unto all [men];

geneva@2Corinthians:10:14 @...come in preaching the Gospel of...

geneva@2Corinthians:10:16 @ To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you, [and] not to boast in (note:)...the preaching of the Gospel....(:note) another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

geneva@Galatians:1:8 @ But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be (note:)See (Rom_9:3).(:note) accursed.

geneva@Galatians:1:12 @ For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught [it], but by the (note:)...the Son revealed his Gospel only...(:note) revelation of Jesus Christ.

geneva@Galatians:1:16 @ To reveal his Son (note:)To me, and this is a type of speech which the Hebrews use, by which it shows us that this gift comes from God.(:note) in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately He says this because it might be objected that he was indeed called by Christ in the way, but afterward was instructed by the apostles and others (whose names, as I said before, the false apostles abused to destroy his apostleship)...calling to preach the Gospel at... I conferred not with With any man in the world. flesh and blood:

geneva@Galatians:2:1 @ Then (note:)...he conferred concerning his Gospel which...(:note) fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with [me] also.

geneva@Galatians:2:2 @ And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, (note:)...the course of the Gospel. Therefore...(:note) in vain.

geneva@Galatians:2:5 @ To whom we gave place by (note:)By submitting ourselves to them, and betraying our own liberty.(:note) subjection, no, not for an hour; that the ...sincere doctrine of the Gospel, which... truth of the gospel might continue with Under the Galatian's name, he understands all nations. you.

geneva@Galatians:2:7 @ But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the (note:)Among the Gentiles, as Peter had to preach it among the Jews.(:note) uncircumcision was committed unto me, as [the gospel] of the circumcision [was] unto Peter;

geneva@Galatians:3:1 @ O (note:)...the doctrine of the Gospel, just...(:note) foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, Christ was laid before you so notably and so plainly that you had a graphic image of him as it were represented before your eyes, as if he had been crucified before you. before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

geneva@Galatians:3:2 @ This only would I learn of you, Received ye the (note:)...the Galatians that the Gospel which...(:note) Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of Of the doctrine of faith. faith?

geneva@Galatians:4:13 @ Ye know how through (note:)Many afflictions.(:note) infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

geneva@Ephesians:6:15 @ And your feet shod with the (note:)...the doctrine of the Gospel, that...(:note) preparation of the gospel of peace;

geneva@Philippians:1:5 @ For your (note:)...made partakers of the Gospel....(:note) fellowship in the gospel from the Ever since I knew you. first day until now;

geneva@Philippians:1:14 @ And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the (note:)The Gospel is called the word, to set forth the excellence of it.(:note) word without fear.

geneva@Philippians:2:16 @ Holding forth the (note:)The Gospel is called the word of life, because of the effects which it produces.(:note) word of life; Again he urges them forward, setting before them his true apostolic care that he had for them: in addition comforting them to the end that they should not be sorry for the greatness of his afflictions, no, not even if he should die to make perfect their sacrifice with his blood, as it were with a drink offering. that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

geneva@1Thessalonians:3:2 @...labour felow in the Gospel of...

geneva@2Thessalonians:1:8 @ In flaming fire taking vengeance on them (note:)...to salvation, without the Gospel of...(:note) that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

geneva@2Thessalonians:3:2 @ And that we may be delivered from (note:)Who do not do or care about their duty.(:note) unreasonable and wicked men: ...no wonder that the Gospel is... for all [men] have not faith.

geneva@1Timothy:6:1 @ Let (note:)...took occasion by the Gospel to...(:note) as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, ...the doctrine of the Gospel to... that the name of God and [his] doctrine be not blasphemed.

geneva@Hebrews:2:3 @ How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; (note:)If the neglect and disobedience of the word spoken by angels was not left unpunished, much less will it be tolerated if we neglect the gospel which the Lord of angels preached, and was confirmed by the voice of the apostles, and with so many signs and wonders from heaven, and especially with great and mighty working of the Holy Spirit.(:note) which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by By the apostles. them that heard [him];

geneva@Hebrews:3:1 @ Wherefore, (note:)Having laid the foundation that is to say, declared and proved both the natures of one Christ, he gives him three offices, that is, the office of a Prophet, King and Priest, and concerning the office of teaching, and governing, compares him with Moses and Joshua from (Hebrews strkjv@3:1-4:14), and with Aaron concerning the priesthood. He proposes that which he intends to speak of, with a grave exhortation, that all our faith may be directed towards Christ, as the only everlasting teacher, governor, and High Priest.(:note) holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the The ambassador or messenger, as in (Rom_15:8) he is called the minister of circumcision. Apostle and High Priest of our Of the doctrine of the gospel which we profess. profession, Christ Jesus;

geneva@Hebrews:3:13 @ But exhort one another daily, (note:)While today lasts, that is to say, so long as the gospel is offered to us.(:note) while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

geneva@Hebrews:13:9 @ Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. (note:)He speaks to those who mixed an external worship and especially the difference of meats with the gospel which he clearly condemns as repugnant to the benefit of Christ.(:note) For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with By this one form which concerns the difference of clean and unclean meat, we have to understand all the ceremonial worship. meats, which have not profited them that have been Who observed the difference of them superstitiously. occupied therein.

geneva@1Peter:1:12 @ Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost (note:)He alludes to the prophecy of Joel, which was exhibited upon the day of Pentecost, in the Apostles, as it were in the first fruits of the Holy Spirit, which this same prophecy Peter declares; (Act_2:6)(:note) sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

geneva@Revelation:11:1 @ And there (note:)The authority of the intended revelation being declared, together with the necessity of that calling which was particularly imposed on John after which follows the history of the estate of Christ his Church, both conflicting or warring, and overcoming in Christ. For the true Church of Christ is said to fight against that which is falsely so called, over which Antichrist rules, Christ Jesus overthrowing Antichrist by the spirit of his mouth: and Christ is said to overcome most gloriously until he shall slay Antichrist by the appearance of his coming, as the apostle teaches in (2Th_2:8). So this history has two parts: One of the state of the Church conflicting with temptations until Chapter 16. The other of the state of the same church obtaining victory, thence to Chapter 20. The first part has two sections most conveniently distributed into their times, of which the first contains a history of the Christian Church for 1260 years, what time the gospel of Christ was as it were taken up from among men into heaven: the second contains a history of the same Church to the victory perfected. These two sections are briefly, though distinctly propounded in this chapter, but both of them are discoursed after in due order. For we understand the state of the Church conflicting, out of Chapters 12 and 13, and of the same growing out of afflictions, out of Chapters 14 to 16. Neither did John unknowingly join together the history of these two times in this chapter, because here is spoken of prophecy, which all confess to be but one just and immutable in the Church, and which Christ commanded to be continual. The history of the former time reaches to (Rev_11:2-14), the latter is set down in the rest of this chapter (Rev_11:15-19). In the former are shown these things: the calling of the servants of God in (Rev_11:4) the conflicts which the faithful must undergo in their calling, for Christ and his Church, thence to (Rev_11:5-10) and their resurrection, and receiving up into heaven to (Rev_11:11-14). In the calling of the servants of God, two things are mentioned: the begetting and settling of the Church in two verses, and the education of it in two verses. The begetting of the Church is here commended to John by sign and by speech: the sign is a measuring rod, and the speech a commandment to measure the Temple of God, that is, to reduce the same to a new form: because the Gentiles are already entered into the Temple of Jerusalem, and shall shortly defile and overthrow it completely.(:note) was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and Either that of Jerusalem's, which was a figure of the Church of Christ, or that heavenly model in (Rev_11:19) but I like the first better, and the things following all agree to it. The sense therefore is, you see all things in God's house, almost from the passion of Christ, to be disordered: and not only the city of Jerusalem, but also the court of the Temple is trampled under foot by the nations, and by profane men whether Jews or strangers: and that only this Temple, that is, the body of the Temple, with the altar, and a small company of good men who truly worship God, do now remain, whom God sanctifies and confirms by his presence. Measure therefore this, even this true Church, or rather the true type of the true Church, omitting the rest, and so describe all things from me, that the true Church of Christ may be as it were a very little centre, and the Church of Antichrist as the circle of the centre, every way in length and breadth compassing about the same, that by way of prophecy you may so declare openly, that the state of the Temple of God, and the faithful who worship him, that is, of the Church, is much more upright than the Church of Antichrist. measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

geneva@Revelation:11:10 @ And they that dwell upon the earth (note:)So much the more shall they by this occasion exercise the hilarity of their Jubile.(:note) shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets The gospel of Christ is the affliction of the world, and the ministry of it, the savour of death to death, to those that perish, (2Co_2:16). tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

geneva@Revelation:12:13 @ And when (note:)The third part: a history of the woman delivered, consisting of two parts, the present battle of Satan against the Christian Church of the Jewish nation, in (Rev_12:13-16): and the battle intended against the Church of the Gentiles, which is called holy by reason of the gospel of Christ in (Rev_12:17).(:note) the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man [child].


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