Passage 1: Genesis 31
(l) Jacob used no deceit in this for it was God's commandment as he declares in (Gen 31:9, Gen 31:11).
(Gen 30:38) Then he put the rods, which he had pilled, in the gutters and watering troughes, when the sheepe came to drink, before the sheepe. (for they were in heate, when they came to drinke)
(Gen 30:39) And the sheepe were in heate before the rods, and afterward brought forth yong of partie colour, and with small and great spots.
(Gen 30:40) And Iaakob parted these lambes, and turned the faces of the flocke towardes these lambes partie coloured and all maner of blacke, among the sheepe of Laban: so hee put his owne flockes by themselues, and put them not with Labans flocke.
(Gen 30:41) And in euery ramming time of the stronger sheepe, Iaakob layde the rods before the eyes of the sheepe in the gutters, that they might conceiue before the rods.
(Notes Reference) And it came to pass, whensoever the (m) stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
(m) As they which took the ram about September and brought forth about March: so the feebler in March and lamb in September.
(Gen 30:42) But when the sheepe were feeble, hee put them not in: and so the feebler were Labans, and the stronger Iaakobs.
(Gen 30:43) So the man increased exceedingly, and had many flockes, and maide seruantes, and men seruants, and camels and asses.
(Gen 31:1) Now he heard the words of Labans sonnes, saying, Iaakob hath taken away all that was our fathers, and of our fathers goods hath he gotten all this honour.
(Notes Reference) And he heard the (a) words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that [was] our father's; and of [that] which [was] our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
(a) The children put in words what the father disguised in his heart for the covetous think that whatever they cannot take, is taken from them.
(Gen 31:2) Also Iaakob beheld the countenance of Laban, that it was not towards him as in times past:
(Gen 31:3) And the Lord had said vnto Iaakob, Turne againe into the lande of thy fathers, and to thy kinred, and I wilbe with thee.
(Gen 31:4) Therefore Iaakob sent and called Rahel and Leah to the fielde vnto his flocke.
(Gen 31:5) Then sayde hee vnto them, I see your fathers countenance, that it is not towardes me as it was wont, and the God of my father hath bene with me.
(Notes Reference) And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it [is] not toward me as before; but the (b) God of my father hath been with me.
(b) The God whom my fathers worshipped.
(Gen 31:6) And yee knowe that I haue serued your father with all my might.
(Gen 31:7) But your father hath deceiued me, and changed my wages tenne times: but God suffred him not to hurt me.
(Gen 31:8) If he thus sayd, The spotted shall be thy wages, then all the sheepe bare spotted: and if he sayd thus, the party coloured shalbe thy rewarde, then bare all the sheepe particoloured.
(Gen 31:9) Thus hath God taken away your fathers substance, and giuen it me.
(Notes Reference) Thus (c) God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.
(c) This declares that the thing Jacob did before, was by God's commandment, and not through deceit.
(Gen 31:10) For in ramming time I lifted vp mine eyes and saw in a dreame, and beholde, ye hee goates leaped vpon the shee goates, that were partie coloured with litle and great spots spotted.
(Gen 31:11) And the Angel of God sayde to mee in a dreame, Iaakob. And I answered, Lo, I am here.
(Gen 31:12) And he sayde, Lift vp nowe thine eyes, and see all the hee goates leaping vpon ye shee goates that are partie coloured, spotted with litle and great spots: for I haue seene all that Laban doeth vnto thee.
(Gen 31:13) I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anoyntedst the pillar, where thou vowedst a vowe vnto me. Nowe arise, get thee out of this countrey and returne vnto ye land where thou wast borne.
(Notes Reference) (d) I [am] the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, [and] where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
(d) This angel was Christ who appeared to Jacob in Bethel: and by this it appears that he had taught his wives the fear of God: for he talks as though they knew this thing.
(Gen 31:14) Then answered Rahel and Leah, and sayde vnto him, Haue wee any more porcion and inheritance in our fathers house?
(Gen 31:15) Doeth not he count vs as strangers? for he hath solde vs, and hath eaten vp and consumed our money.
(Notes Reference) Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath (e) sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
(e) For they were given to Jacob as payment for his service, which was a kind of sale.
(Gen 31:16) Therefore all the riches, which God hath taken from our father, is ours and our childrens: nowe then whatsoeuer God hath saide vnto thee, doe it.
(Gen 31:17) Then Iaakob rose vp, and set his sonnes and his wiues vpon camels.
(Gen 31:18) And he caried away all his flockes, and al his substance which he had gotten, to wit, his riches, which he had gotten in Padan Aram, to goe to Izhak his father vnto the land of Canaan.
(Gen 31:19) Whe Laban was gone to shere his sheepe, Then Rahel stole her fathers idoles.
(Notes Reference) And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the (f) images that [were] her father's.
(f) For so the word here signifies, because Laban calls them gods, (Gen 31:30).
(Gen 31:20) Thus Iaakob stole away ye heart of Laban the Aramite: for he told him not that he fled.
(Gen 31:21) So fled he with all that he had, and he rose vp, and passed the riuer, and set his face towarde mount Gilead.
(Gen 31:22) And the third day after was it told Laban, that Iaakob fled.
(Gen 31:23) Then he tooke his brethren with him, and followed after him seuen dayes iourney, and ouertooke him at mount Gilead.
(Gen 31:24) And God came to Laban the Aramite in a dreame by night, and sayde vnto him, Take heede that thou speake not to Iaakob ought saue good.
(Gen 31:25) Then Laban ouertooke Iaakob, and Iaakob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban also with his brethren pitched vpon mount Gilead.
(Gen 31:26) Then Laban sayde to Iaakob, What hast thou done? thou hast euen stolen away mine heart and caried away my daughters as though they had bene taken captiues with the sworde.
(Gen 31:27) Wherfore diddest thou flie so secretly and steale away from me, and diddest not tel me, that I might haue sent thee foorth with mirth and with songs, with timbrel and with harpe?
(Gen 31:28) But thou hast not suffered me to kisse my sonnes and my daughters: nowe thou hast done foolishly in doing so.
(Gen 31:29) I am able to do you euill: but the God of your father spake vnto me yesternight, saying, Take heed that thou speake not to Iaakob ought saue good.
(Notes Reference) It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the (g) God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
(g) He was an idolater and therefore would not acknowledge the God of Jacob for his God.
(Gen 31:30) Nowe though thou wentest thy way, because thou greatly longedst after thy fathers house, yet wherefore hast thou stollen my gods?
(Gen 31:31) Then Iaakob answered, and said to Laban, Because I was afraid, and thought that thou wouldest haue taken thy daughters from me.
(Gen 31:32) But with whome thou findest thy gods, let him not liue. Search thou before our brethre what I haue of thine, and take it to thee, (but Iaakob wist not that Rahel had stolen them)
(Gen 31:33) Then came Laban into Iaakobs tent, and into Leahs tent, and into the two maides tentes, but founde them not. So hee went out of Leahs tent, and entred into Rahels tent.
(Gen 31:34) (Nowe Rahel had taken the idoles, and put them in the camels litter and sate downe vpon them) and Laban searched al the tent, but found them not.
(Gen 31:35) Then said she to her father, My Lord, be not angrie that I cannot rise vp before thee: for the custome of women is vpon me: so he searched, but found not the idoles.
(Gen 31:36) The Iaakob was wroth, and chode with Laban: Iaakob also answered and sayd to Laban, What haue I trespassed? what haue I offended, that thou hast pursued after me?
(Gen 31:37) Seeing thou hast searched all my stuffe, what hast thou foud of all thine houshold stuffe? put it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may iudge betweene vs both.
(Gen 31:38) This twenty yere I haue bin with thee: thine ewes and thy goates haue not cast their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten.
(Gen 31:39) Whatsoeuer was torne of beasts, I brought it not vnto thee, but made it good my selfe: of mine hand diddest thou require it, were it stollen by day or stollen by night.
(Gen 31:40) I was in the day consumed with heate, and with frost in the night, and my sleepe departed from mine eyes.
(Gen 31:41) Thus haue I bene twentie yeere in thine house, and serued thee fourteene yeeres for thy two daughters, and sixe yeeres for thy sheepe, and thou hast changed my wages tenne times.
(Gen 31:42) Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the feare of Izhak had bene with me, surely thou haddest sent me away nowe emptie: but God behelde my tribulation, and the labour of mine hads, and rebuked thee yester night.
(Notes Reference) Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the (h) fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked [thee] yesternight.
(h) That is, the God whom Isaac feared and reverenced.
(Gen 31:43) Then Laban answered, and saide vnto Iaakob, These daughters are my daughters, and these sonnes are my sonnes, and these sheepe are my sheepe, and all that thou seest, is mine, and what can I doe this day vnto these my daughters, or to their sonnes which they haue borne?
(Gen 31:44) Nowe therefore come and let vs make a couenant, I and thou, which may be a witnes betweene me and thee.
(Notes Reference) Now therefore (i) come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
(i) His conscience reproved him for his misbehaviour toward Jacob, and therefore moved him to seek peace.
(Gen 31:45) Then tooke Iaakob a stone, and set it vp as a pillar:
(Gen 31:46) And Iaakob sayde vnto his brethren, Gather stones: who brought stones, and made an heape, and they did eate there vpon the heape.
(Gen 31:47) And Laban called it Iegar-sahadutha, and Iaakob called it Galeed.
(Notes Reference) And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it (k) Galeed.
(k) The one named the place in the Syrian tongue, and the other in the Hebrew tongue.
(Gen 31:48) For Laban sayd, This heape is witnesse betweene me and thee this day: therefore he called the name of it Galeed.
(Gen 31:49) Also he called it Mizpah, because he said, The Lord looke betweene me and thee, when we shalbe departed one from another,
(Notes Reference) And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD (l) watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
(l) To punish the trespasser.
(Gen 31:50) If thou shalt vexe my daughters, or shalt take wiues beside my daughters: there is no man with vs, beholde, God is witnesse betweene me and thee.
(Notes Reference) If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take [other] (m) wives beside my daughters, no man [is] with us; see, God [is] witness betwixt me and thee.
(m) Nature compels him to condemn that vice, to which through covetousness he forced Jacob.
(Gen 31:51) Moreouer Laban sayd to Iaakob, Beholde this heape, and behold the pillar, which I haue set betweene me and thee,
(Gen 31:52) This heape shall be witnesse, and the pillar shall be witnesse, that I will not come ouer this heape to thee, and that thou shalt not passe ouer this heape and this pillar vnto me for euill.
(Gen 31:53) The God of Abraham, and the God of Nabor, and the God of their father be iudge betweene vs: But Iaakob sware by the feare of his father Izhak.
(Notes Reference) The God of Abraham, and the God of (n) Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the (o) fear of his father Isaac.
(n) Behold, how the idolaters mingle the true God with their false gods.
(o) Meaning, by the true God whom Isaac worshipped.
(Gen 31:54) Then Iaakob did offer a sacrifice vpon the mount, and called his brethren to eate bread. and they did eate bread, and taried all night in the mount.
(Gen 31:55) And earely in the morning Laban rose vp and kissed his sonnes and his daughters, and blessed them, and Laban departing, went vnto his place againe.
(Notes Reference) And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and (p) blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.
(p) We see that there is always some seed of the knowledge of God in the hearts of the wicked.
Passage 2: Psalms 35
(Psa 35:1) A Psalme of Dauid. Pleade thou my cause, O Lord, with them that striue with me: fight thou against them, that fight against me.
(Notes Reference) "[A Psalm] of David." Plead [my (a) cause], O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
(a) He desires God to undertake his cause against them who persecute him and slander him.
(Psa 35:2) Lay hand vpon the shielde and buckler, and stand vp for mine helpe.
(Notes Reference) (b) Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
(b) Even though God can with his breath destroy all his enemies, yet the Holy Spirit attributes to him these outward weapons to assure us of his patient power.
(Psa 35:3) Bring out also the speare and stop the way against them, that persecute me: say vnto my soule, I am thy saluation.
(Notes Reference) Draw out also the spear, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say unto my (c) soul, I [am] thy salvation.
(c) Assure me against these temptations, that you are the author of my salvation.
(Psa 35:4) Let them be confounded and put to shame, that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe, and brought to confusion, that imagine mine hurt.
(Psa 35:5) Let them be as chaffe before the winde, and let the Angel of the Lord scatter them.
(Notes Reference) Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD (d) chase [them].
(d) Smite them with the spirit of giddiness that their enterprises may be foolish, and they received just reward.
(Psa 35:6) Let their way be darke and slipperie: and let the Angel of the Lord persecute them.
(Psa 35:7) For without cause they haue hid the pit and their net for me: without cause haue they digged a pit for my soule.
(Notes Reference) For (e) without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.
(e) Showing that we may not call God to be a revenger but only for his glory, and when our cause is just.
(Psa 35:8) Let destruction come vpon him at vnwares, and let his net, that he hath laid priuilie, take him: let him fall into the same destruction.
(Notes Reference) Let destruction come upon (f) him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into (g) that very destruction let him fall.
(f) When he promises peace to himself.
(g) Which he prepared against the children of God.
(Psa 35:9) Then my soule shalbe ioyfull in the Lord: it shall reioyce in his saluation.
(Psa 35:10) All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like vnto thee, which deliuerest the poore from him, that is too strong for him! yea, the poore and him that is in miserie, from him that spoyleth him!
(Notes Reference) All my (h) bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
(h) He attributes his deliverance only to God, praising him therefore both in soul and body.
(Psa 35:11) Cruell witnesses did rise vp: they asked of me things that I knewe not.
(Notes Reference) (i) False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge [things] that I knew not.
(i) That would not permit me to purge myself.
(Psa 35:12) They rewarded me euill for good, to haue spoyled my soule.
(Notes Reference) They rewarded me evil for good [to] the (k) spoiling of my soul.
(k) To have taken from me all comfort and brought me into despair.
(Psa 35:13) Yet I, when they were sicke, I was clothed with a sacke: I humbled my soule with fasting: and my praier was turned vpon my bosome.
(Notes Reference) But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and (l) my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
(l) I prayed for them with inward affection, as I would have done for myself: or, I declared my affection with bowing down my head.
(Psa 35:14) I behaued my selfe as to my friend, or as to my brother: I humbled my selfe, mourning as one that bewaileth his mother.
(Psa 35:15) But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,
(Notes Reference) But in mine (m) adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear (n) [me], and ceased not:
(m) When they thought me ready to slip and as one that limped for infirmity.
(n) With their railing words.
(Psa 35:16) With the false skoffers at bankets, gnashing their teeth against me.
(Notes Reference) With hypocritical mockers in (o) feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
(o) The word signifies cakes: meaning that the proud courtiers at their dainty feasts scoff, rail, and conspire his death.
(Psa 35:17) Lord, how long wilt thou beholde this? deliuer my soule from their tumult, euen my desolate soule from the lions.
(Psa 35:18) So will I giue thee thankes in a great Congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
(Psa 35:19) Let not them that are mine enemies, vniustly reioyce ouer mee, neyther let them winke with the eye, that hate mee without a cause.
(Notes Reference) Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let them (p) wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
(p) In token of contempt and mocking.
(Psa 35:20) For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.
(Psa 35:21) And they gaped on mee with their mouthes, saying, Aha, aha, our eye hath seene.
(Notes Reference) Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said, Aha, aha, (q) our eye hath seen [it].
(q) They rejoiced as though they had now seen David overthrown.
(Psa 35:22) Thou hast seene it, O Lord: keepe not silence: be not farre from me, O Lord.
(Psa 35:23) Arise and wake to my iudgement, euen to my cause, my God, and my Lord.
(Psa 35:24) Iudge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousnesse, and let them not reioyce ouer mee.
(Notes Reference) Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy (r) righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
(r) It is the justice of God to give to the oppressors affliction and torment, and to the oppressed aid and relief, (2Th 1:6).
(Psa 35:25) Let them not say in their hearts, O our soule reioyce: neither let them say, We haue deuoured him.
(Notes Reference) Let them not say in their hearts, (s) Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
(s) Because we have that which we sought for, seeing he is destroyed.
(Psa 35:26) Let them bee confounded, and put to shame together, that reioyce at mine hurt: let them bee clothed with confusion and shame, that lift vp themselues against me.
(Notes Reference) Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion (t) together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed (u) with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.
(t) That is, at once, were they never so many or mighty.
(u) This prayer will always be verified against them who persecute the faithful.
(Psa 35:27) But let them be ioyful and glad, that loue my righteousnesse: yea, let them say alway, Let the Lord be magnified, which loueth the prosperitie of his seruant.
(Notes Reference) Let them shout for joy, and be glad, (x) that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the (y) prosperity of his servant.
(x) That at least favour my right, though they are not able to help me.
(y) He exhorts the Church to praise God for the deliverance of his servants, and for the destruction of his adversaries.
(Psa 35:28) And my tongue shall vtter thy righteousnesse, and thy praise euery day.
Passage 3: Matthew 20
(Mat 20:1) For the kingdome of heauen is like vnto a certaine, housholder, which went out at the dawning of the day to hire labourers into his vineyarde.
(Notes Reference) For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man [that is] an (1) householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
(1) God is bound to no man, and therefore he calls whoever and whenever he desires. This only every man ought to take heed of, and upon this bestow his whole endeavour, that he go forward and come to the mark without stopping at all or staggering, and to not curiously examine the doings of other men, or the judgments of God.
(Mat 20:2) And he agreed with the labourers for a peny a day, and sent them into his vineyard.
(Notes Reference) And when he had (a) agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
(a) Literally, "fell in time": it is a kind of speech taken from poetry.
(Mat 20:3) And he went out about the third houre, and sawe other standing idle in the market place,
(Mat 20:4) And sayd vnto them, Goe ye also into my vineyard, and whatsoeuer is right, I will giue you: and they went their way.
(Mat 20:5) Againe he went out about the sixt and ninth houre, and did likewise.
(Mat 20:6) And he went about the eleuenth houre, and found other standing idle, and sayd vnto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
(Notes Reference) And about the (b) eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
(b) The last hour: for the day was twelve hours long, and the first hour began at sunrise.
(Mat 20:7) They sayd vnto him, Because no man hath hired vs. He sayd to them, Goe ye also into my vineyard, and whatsoeuer is right, that shall ye receiue.
(Mat 20:8) And when euen was come, the master of the vineyard sayd vnto his steward, Call the labourers, and giue them their hire, beginning at the last, till thou come to the first.
(Mat 20:9) And they which were hired about ye eleuenth houre, came and receiued euery man a penie.
(Mat 20:10) Nowe when the first came, they supposed that they should receiue more, but they likewise receiued euery man a penie.
(Mat 20:11) And when they had receiued it, they murmured against the master of the house,
(Mat 20:12) Saying, These last haue wrought but one houre, and thou hast made them equall vnto vs, which haue borne the burden and heate of the day.
(Mat 20:13) And hee answered one of them, saying, Friend, I doe thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penie?
(Mat 20:14) Take that which is thine owne, and go thy way: I will giue vnto this last, as much as to thee.
(Mat 20:15) Is it not lawfull for me to do as I will with mine owne? Is thine eye euil, because I am good?
(Notes Reference) Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye (c) evil, because I am good?
(c) Naught, that is to say, do you envy at my goodness towards them? For by an "evil eye" the Hebrews mean "envy", because such dispositions appear chiefly in the eyes, as above in (Mat 6:23). It is set in opposition to the word "single", and it is taken there for corrupt: for whereas he said before in verse 22, "If thine eye be single", he adds in verse 23, "but if thine eye by wicked", or "corrupt", the word being the same in that place as it is here. (Mat 6:22-23)
(Mat 20:16) So the last shalbe first, and the first last: for many are called, but fewe chosen.
(Mat 20:17) And Iesus went vp to Hierusalem, and tooke the twelue disciples apart in the way, and said vnto them,
(Notes Reference) (2) And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them,
(2) Christ goes to the cross necessarily, and yet willingly.
(Mat 20:18) Beholde, wee goe vp to Hierusalem, and the Sonne of man shall bee deliuered vnto the chiefe priestes, and vnto the Scribes, and they shall condemne him to death,
(Notes Reference) (3) Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,
(3) They that should be persecuting him the least, are the greatest persecutors of Christ.
(Mat 20:19) And shall deliuer him to the Gentiles, to mocke, and to scourge, and to crucifie him, but the third day he shall rise againe.
(Notes Reference) (4) And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify [him]: and the third day he shall rise again.
(4) The shame of the cross is the sure way to the glory of everlasting life.
(Mat 20:20) Then came to him the mother of Zebedeus children with her sonnes, worshipping him, and desiring a certaine thing of him.
(Notes Reference) (5) Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping [him], and desiring a certain thing of him.
(5) The manner of the heavenly kingdom is quite contrary to the earthly kingdom.
(Mat 20:21) And he said vnto her, What wouldest thou? She said to him, Graunt that these my two sonnes may sit, the one at thy right hand, and the other at thy left hand in thy kingdome.
(Mat 20:22) And Iesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye aske. Are ye able to drinke of the cup that I shall drinke of, and to be baptized with the baptisme that I shalbe baptized with? They said to him, We are able.
(Notes Reference) But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to (d) drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the (e) baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
(d) "Taking the cup" is figurative speech for that which is contained in the cup. And again, the Hebrews understand by the word "cup", sometimes the manner of punishment which is rendered to sin, as (Psa 11:6), or the joy that is given to the faithful, as (Psa 23:5), and sometimes a lot or condition, as (Psa 16:5).
(e) This is in reference to afflictions, as David commonly uses.
(Mat 20:23) And he said vnto them, Ye shall drinke in deede of my cup, and shall be baptized with the baptisme, that I am baptized with, but to sit at my right hande, and at my left hand, is not mine to giue: but it shalbe giuen to them for whome it is prepared of my Father.
(Notes Reference) And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is (f) not mine to give, but [it shall be given to them] for whom it is prepared of my Father.
(f) The almightiness of Christ's divinity is not shut out by this, but it shows the debasing of himself by taking man's nature upon him.
(Mat 20:24) And when the other ten heard this, they disdained at the two brethren.
(Mat 20:25) Therefore Iesus called them vnto him, and saide, We knowe that the lordes of the Gentiles haue domination ouer them, and they that are great, exercise authoritie ouer them.
(Notes Reference) But Jesus called them [unto him], and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise (g) dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.
(g) Somewhat sharply and roughly.
(Mat 20:26) But it shall not be so among you: but whosoeuer will be great among you, let him be your seruant.
(Mat 20:27) And whosoeuer will be chiefe among you, let him be your seruant.
(Mat 20:28) Euen as the Sonne of man came not to be serued, but to serue, and to giue his life for the ransome of many.
(Mat 20:29) And as they departed from Iericho, a great multitude followed him.
(Notes Reference) (6) And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.
(6) Christ by healing these blind men with only one touch, shows that he is the only light of the world.
(Mat 20:30) And beholde, two blinde men, sitting by the way side, when they heard that Iesus passed by, cryed, saying, O Lord, the Sonne of Dauid, haue mercie on vs.
(Mat 20:31) And the multitude rebuked them, because they should holde their peace: but they cried the more, saying, O Lord, the Sonne of Dauid, haue mercie on vs.
(Mat 20:32) Then Iesus stoode still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I should do to you?
(Notes Reference) And Jesus stood still, and (h) called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you?
(h) Himself, not by the means of other men.
(Mat 20:33) They saide to him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.
(Mat 20:34) And Iesus mooued with compassion, touched their eyes, and immediatly their eyes receiued sight, and they followed him.