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geneva@Job:10:12 @ Thou hast granted me life and (note:)That is, reason and understanding, and many other gifts, by which man excels all earthly creatures.(:note) favour, and thy That is, the fatherly care and providence by which you preserved me, and without which I would perish immediately. visitation hath preserved my spirit.

geneva@Job:11:12 @ For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild (note:)That is, without understanding, so that whatever gifts he has afterward come from God, and not from nature.(:note) ass's colt.

geneva@Job:36:5 @ Behold, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not [any: he is] (note:)Strong and constant, and of understanding: for these are the gifts of God, and he loves them in man: but as much as God punished Job now, it is a sign that these are not in him.(:note) mighty in strength [and] wisdom.

geneva@Psalms:8:7 @ All (note:)By the temporal gifts of man's creation, he is led to consider the benefits which he has by his regeneration through Christ.(:note) sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

geneva@Psalms:16:2 @ [O my soul], thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou [art] my Lord: my (note:)Though we cannot enrich God, yet we must bestow God's gifts for the use of his children.(:note) goodness [extendeth] not to thee;

geneva@Psalms:49:20 @ Man [that is] in honour, and (note:)He condemns man's ingratitude, who having received excellent gifts from God, abuses them like a beast to his own condemnation.(:note) understandeth not, is like the beasts [that] perish.

geneva@Psalms:68:18 @ Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast (note:)As God overcame the enemy of his Church, took them prisoners, and made them tributaries: so Christ, which is God manifested in the flesh, subdued Satan and sin under us, and gave to his Church most liberal gifts of his Spirit, (Eph_4:8).(:note) led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, [for] the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell [among them].

geneva@Psalms:72:10 @ The kings of (note:)Of Cilicia, and of all other countries beyond the sea, which he means by the isles.(:note) Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings That is, of Arabia that rich country, of which Sheba was a part bordering on Ethiopia. of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

geneva@Proverbs:11:29 @ He that troubleth his own (note:)The covetous men who spare their riches to the hinderance of their families, will be deprived of it miserably.(:note) house shall inherit the wind: and the fool [shall be] For though the wicked are rich, yet they are only slaves to the godly, who are the true possessors of the gifts of God. servant to the wise of heart.

geneva@Proverbs:23:4 @ Labour not to be rich: cease from thy own (note:)Bestow not the gifts that God has given you, to get worldly riches.(:note) wisdom.

geneva@Proverbs:27:26 @ The (note:)This declares the great goodness of God towards man, and the diligence that he requires from him for the preservation of his gifts.(:note) lambs [are] for thy clothing, and the goats [are] the price of the field.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:13 @ And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the (note:)Read (Ecc_2:24) and these places declare that we should do all things with sobriety and in the fear of God, as he gives not his gifts to the intent that they should be abused.(:note) gift of God.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:3:22 @ Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should (note:)By the often repetition of this sentence as in (Ecc_2:24, Ecc_3:12, Ecc_3:22, Ecc_5:17, Ecc_8:15) he declares that man by reason can comprehend nothing better in this life than to use the gifts of God soberly and comfortably: for to know further, is a special gift of God revealed by his Spirit.(:note) rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

geneva@Ecclesiastes:7:11 @ Wisdom [is] good with an (note:)He answers to them who do not value wisdom unless riches are joined with it, showing that both are the gifts of God, but that wisdom is far more excellent and may be without riches.(:note) inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:10:17 @ Blessed [art] thou, O land, when thy king [is] the son (note:)Meaning, when he is noble for virtue and wisdom and with the gifts of God.(:note) of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

geneva@Songs:4:9 @ Thou hast ravished my heart, my (note:)Christ calls his Church sister in respect that he had taken the flesh of man.(:note) sister, [my] spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thy In that he made his Church beautiful and rich, he loved his gifts in her. eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

geneva@Songs:6:8 @ There are (note:)Meaning that the gifts are infinite which Christ gives to his Church: or that his faithful are many in number.(:note) sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.