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John Gill (23 November 1697 – 14 October 1771) was an English Baptist pastor, biblical scholar, and theologian who held to a firm Calvinistic soteriology. Born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, he attended Kettering Grammar School where he mastered the Latin classics and learned Greek by age 11. He continued self-study in everything from logic ...
List of biblical commentaries. This is an outline of commentaries and commentators. Discussed are the salient points of Jewish, patristic, medieval, and modern commentaries on the Bible. The article includes discussion of the Targums, Mishna, and Talmuds, which are not regarded as Bible commentaries in the modern sense of the word, but which ...
John Gill's commentaries highlight the Jews' consistency: they grumbled "for want of bread" [61] in the desert, and they grumbled about Jesus' teaching "when they found that he spoke of himself as the true bread, the bread of God, and bread of life". [62] For Jesus' disciples, His teaching was challenging.
John Gill comments on 1 Corinthians 7 and states that polygamy is unlawful; and that one man is to have but one wife, and to keep to her; and that one woman is to have but one husband, and to keep to him and the wife only has a power over the husband's body, a right to it, and may claim the use of it: this power over each other's bodies is not ...
15:25 →. Jesus exorcising the Canaanite Woman's daughter from Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 15th century. Book. Gospel of Matthew. Christian Bible part. New Testament. Matthew 15:24 is a verse in the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
Justification from eternity is the teaching that justification itself is eternal rather than temporal, and that it occurs before faith rather than after it. [3] Justification from eternity has been described as a "chief tenet of Antinomian Hyper-Calvinism," [4] Early antinomians John Eaton and John Saltmarsh taught that justification precedes ...
Proverbs 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. The book is a compilation of several wisdom literature collections, with the heading in 1:1 may be intended to regard Solomon as the traditional author of the whole book, but the dates of the individual collections are difficult to determine, and the book probably obtained ...
The author is identified as “James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ” (James 1:1). James (Jacob, Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב, romanized: Ya'aqov, Greek: Ιάκωβος, romanized: Iakobos) was an extremely common name in antiquity, and a number of early Christian figures are named James, including: James the son of Zebedee, James the son of Alphaeus, and James the brother of Jesus ...