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John the Baptist, His preaching, manner of life, and baptism. (1-6) John reproves the Pharisees and Sadducees. (7-12) The baptism of Jesus. (13-17)
Verses 1-6 After Malachi there was no prophet until John the Baptist came. He appeared first in the wilderness of Judea. This was not an uninhabited desert, but a part of the country not thickly peopled, nor much enclosed. No place is so remote as to shut us out from the visits of Divine grace. The doctrine he preached was repentance; "Repent ye." The word here used, implies a total alteration in the mind, a change in the judgment, disposition, and affections, another and a better bias of the soul. Consider your ways, change your minds: you have thought amiss; think again, and think aright. True penitents have other thoughts of God and Christ, sin and holiness, of this world and the other, than they had. The change of the mind produces a change of the way. That is gospel repentance, which flows from a sight of Christ, from a sense of his love, and from hopes of pardon and forgiveness through him. It is a great encouragement to us to repent; repent, for your sins shall be pardoned upon your repentance. Return to God in a way of duty, and he will, through Christ, return unto you in the way of mercy. It is still as necessary to repent and humble ourselves, to prepare the way of the Lord, as it then was. There is a great deal to be done, to make way for Christ into a soul, and nothing is more needful than the discovery of sin, and a conviction that we cannot be saved by our own righteousness. The way of sin and Satan is a crooked way; but to prepare a way for Christ, the paths must be made straight, ( Hebrews 12:13 ) . Those whose business it is to call others to mourn for sin, and to mortify it, ought themselves to live a serious life, a life of self-denial, and contempt of the world. By giving others this example, John made way for Christ. Many came to John's baptism, but few kept to the profession they made. There may be many forward hearers, where there are few true believers. Curiosity, and love for novelty and variety, may bring many to attend on good preaching, and to be affected for a while, who never are subject to the power of it. Those who received John's doctrine, testified their repentance by confessing their sins. Those only are ready to receive Jesus Christ as their righteousness, who are brought with sorrow and shame to own their guilt. The benefits of the kingdom of heaven, now at hand, were thereupon sealed to them by baptism. John washed them with water, in token that God would cleanse them from all their iniquities, thereby intimating, that by nature and practice all were polluted, and could not be admitted among the people of God, unless washed from their sins in the fountain Christ was to open, ( Zechariah 13:1 ) .
Verses 7-12 To make application to the souls of the hearers, is the life of preaching; so it was of John's preaching. The Pharisees laid their chief stress on outward observances, neglecting the weightier matters of the moral law, and the spiritual meaning of their legal ceremonies. Others of them were detestable hypocrites, making their pretences to holiness a cloak for iniquity. The Sadducees ran into the opposite extreme, denying the existence of spirits, and a future state. They were the scornful infidels of that time and country. There is a wrath to come. It is the great concern of every one to flee from that wrath. God, who delights not in our ruin, has warned us; he warns by the written word, by ministers, by conscience. And those are not worthy of the name of penitents, or their privileges, who say they are sorry for their sins, yet persist in them. It becomes penitents to be humble and low in their own eyes, to be thankful for the least mercy, patient under the greatest affliction, to be watchful against all appearances of sin, to abound in every duty, and to be charitable in judging others. Here is a word of caution, not to trust in outward privileges. There is a great deal which carnal hearts are apt to say within themselves, to put aside the convincing, commanding power of the word of God. Multitudes, by resting in the honours and mere advantages of their being members of an outward church, come short of heaven. Here is a word of terror to the careless and secure. Our corrupt hearts cannot be made to produce good fruit, unless the regenerating Spirit of Christ graft the good word of God upon them. And every tree, however high in gifts and honours, however green in outward professions and performances, if it bring not forth good fruit, the fruits meet for repentance, is hewn down and cast into the fire of God's wrath, the fittest place for barren trees: what else are they good for? If not fit for fruit, they are fit for fuel. John shows the design and intention of Christ's appearing, which they were now speedily to expect. No outward forms can make us clean. No ordinances, by whomsoever administered, or after whatever mode, can supply the want of the baptism of the Holy Ghost and of fire. The purifying and cleansing power of the Holy Spirit alone can produce that purity of heart, and those holy affections, which accompany salvation. It is Christ who baptizes with the Holy Ghost. This he did in the extraordinary gifts of the Spirit sent upon the apostles, ( Acts 2:4 ) . This he does in the graces and comforts of the Spirit, given to those that ask him, Lu. 11:13 ; Joh. 7:38, Joh. 7:39 |; see ( Acts 11:16 ) . Observe here, the outward church is Christ's floor, ( Isaiah 21:10 ) . True believers are as wheat, substantial, useful, and valuable; hypocrites are as chaff, light and empty, useless and worthless, carried about with every wind; these are mixed, good and bad, in the same outward communion. There is a day coming when the wheat and chaff shall be separated. The last judgment will be the distinguishing day, when saints and sinners shall be parted for ever. In heaven the saints are brought together, and no longer scattered; they are safe, and no longer exposed; separated from corrupt neighbours without, and corrupt affections within, and there is no chaff among them. Hell is the unquenchable fire, which will certainly be the portion and punishment of hypocrites and unbelievers. Here life and death, good and evil, are set before us: according as we now are in the field, we shall be then in the floor.
Verses 13-17 Christ's gracious condescensions are so surprising, that even the strongest believers at first can hardly believe them; so deep and mysterious, that even those who know his mind well, are apt to start objections against the will of Christ. And those who have much of the Spirit of God while here, see that they need to apply to Christ for more. Christ does not deny that John had need to be baptized of him, yet declares he will now be baptized of John. Christ is now in a state of humiliation. Our Lord Jesus looked upon it as well becoming him to fulfil all righteousness, to own every Divine institution, and to show his readiness to comply with all God's righteous precepts. In and through Christ, the heavens are opened to the children of men. This descent of the Spirit upon Christ, showed that he was endued with his sacred influences without measure. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. At Christ's baptism there was a manifestation of the three Persons in the sacred Trinity. The Father confirming the Son to be Mediator; the Son solemnly entering upon the work; the Holy Spirit descending on him, to be through his mediation communicated to his people. In Him our spiritual sacrifices are acceptable, for He is the altar that ( 1 Peter. 2:5 ) consuming fire, but in Christ, a reconciled Father. This is the sum of the gospel, which we must by faith cheerfully embrace.
Matthew 3:1-12 . PREACHING AND MINISTRY OF JOHN. ( = 1:1-8 Luke 3:1-18 ).
For the proper introduction to this section, we must go to Luke 3:1 Luke 3:2 . Here, as BENGEL well observes, the curtain of the New Testament is, as it were, drawn up, and the greatest of all epochs of the Church commences. Even our Lord's own age is determined by it ( Luke 3:23 ). No such elaborate chronological precision is to be found elsewhere in the New Testament, and it comes fitly from him who claims it as the peculiar recommendation of his Gospel, that "he had traced down all things with precision from the very first" ( Matthew 1:3 ). Here evidently commences his proper narrative.
Luke 3:1 :
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar--not the fifteenth from his full accession on the death of Augustus, but from the period when he was associated with him in the government of the empire, three years earlier, about the end of the year of Rome 779, or about four years before the usual reckoning.
Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea--His proper title was procurator, but with more than the usual powers of that office. After holding it for about ten years, he was summoned to Rome to answer to charges brought against him; but ere he arrived, Tiberius died (A.D. 35), and soon after miserable Pilate committed suicide.
And Herod being tetrarch of
and his brother Philip--a very different and very superior Philip to the one whose name was Herod Philip, and whose wife, Herodias, went to live with Herod Antipas
tetrarch of Ituræa--lying to the northeast of Palestine, and so called from Itur or Jetur, Ishmael's son ( 1 Chronicles 1:31 ), and anciently belonging to the half-tribe of Manasseh.
and of the region of Trachonitis--lying farther to the northeast, between Iturea and Damascus; a rocky district infested by robbers, and committed by Augustus to Herod the Great to keep in order.
and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene--still more to the northeast; so called, says ROBINSON, from Abila, eighteen miles from Damascus.Luke 3:2 :
Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests--The former, though deposed, retained much of his influence, and, probably, as sagan or deputy, exercised much of the power of the high priesthood along with Caiaphas, his son-in-law ( John 18:13 , Acts 4:6 ). In David's time both Zadok and Abiathar acted as high priests ( 2 Samuel 15:35 ), and it seems to have been the fixed practice to have two ( 2 Kings 25:18 ).
the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness--Such a way of speaking is never once used when speaking of Jesus, because He was Himself The Living Word; whereas to all merely creature-messengers of God, the word they spoke was a foreign element. Matthew.
1. In those days--of Christ's secluded life at Nazareth, where the last chapter left Him.
came John the Baptist, preaching--about six months before his Master.
in the wilderness of Judea--the desert valley of the Jordan, thinly peopled and bare in pasture, a little north of Jerusalem.
2. And saying, Repent ye--Though the word strictly denotes a change of mind, it has respect here (and wherever it is used in connection with salvation) primarily to that sense of sin which leads the sinner to flee from the wrath to come, to look for relief only from above, and eagerly to fall in with the provided remedy.
for the kingdom of heaven is at hand--This sublime phrase, used in none of the other Gospels, occurs in this peculiarly Jewish Gospel nearly thirty times; and being suggested by Daniel's grand vision of the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven to the Ancient of days, to receive His investiture in a world-wide kingdom ( Daniel 7:13 Daniel 7:14 ), it was fitted at once both to meet the national expectations and to turn them into the right channel. A kingdom for which repentance was the proper preparation behooved to be essentially spiritual. Deliverance from sin, the great blessing of Christ's kingdom ( Matthew 1:21 ), can be valued by those only to whom sin is a burden ( Matthew 9:12 ). John's great work, accordingly, was to awaken this feeling and hold out the hope of a speedy and precious remedy.
3. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying--( Matthew 11:3 ).
The voice of one crying in the the scene of his ministry corresponding to its rough nature.
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight--This prediction is quoted in all the four Gospels, showing that it was regarded as a great outstanding one, and the predicted forerunner as the connecting link between the old and the new economies. Like the great ones of the earth, the Prince of peace was to have His immediate approach proclaimed and His way prepared; and the call here--taking it generally--is a call to put out of the way whatever would obstruct His progress and hinder His complete triumph, whether those hindrances were public or personal, outward or inward. In Luke ( Luke 3:5 Luke 3:6 ) the quotation is thus continued: "Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God." Levelling and smoothing are here the obvious figures whose sense is conveyed in the first words of the proclamation--"Prepare ye the way of the Lord." The idea is that every obstruction shall be so removed as to reveal to the whole world the salvation of God in Him whose name is the "Saviour." (Compare Psalms 98:3 , Isaiah 11:10 , 49:6 , 52:10 , Luke 2:31 Luke 2:32 , Acts 13:47 ).
4. And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair--woven of it.
and a leathern girdle about his loins--the prophetic dress of Elijah ( 2 Kings 1:8 ; and see Zechariah 13:4 ).
and his meat was locusts--the great, well-known Eastern locust, a food of the poor ( Leviticus 11:22 ).
and wild honey--made by wild bees ( 1 Samuel 14:25 1 Samuel 14:26 ). This dress and diet, with the shrill cry in the wilderness, would recall the stern days of Elijah.
5. Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan--From the metropolitan center to the extremities of the Judean province the cry of this great preacher of repentance and herald of the approaching Messiah brought trooping penitents and eager expectants.
6. And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins--probably confessing aloud. This baptism was at once a public seal of their felt need of deliverance from sin, of their expectation of the coming Deliverer, and of their readiness to welcome Him when He appeared. The baptism itself startled, and was intended to startle, them. They were familiar enough with the baptism of proselytes from heathenism; but this baptism of Jews themselves was quite new and strange to them.
7. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them--astonished at such a spectacle.
O generation of vipers--"Viper brood," expressing the deadly influence of both sects alike upon the community. Mutually and entirely antagonistic as were their religious principles and spirit, the stem prophet charges both alike with being the poisoners of the nation's religious principles. In Matthew 12:34 , 23:33 , this strong language of the Baptist is anew applied by the faithful and true Witness to the Pharisees specifically--the only party that had zeal enough actively to diffuse this poison.
who hath warned you--given you the hint, as the idea is.
to flee from the wrath to come?--"What can have brought you hither?" John more than suspected it was not so much their own spiritual anxieties as the popularity of his movement that had drawn them thither. What an expression is this, "The wrath to come!" God's "wrath," in Scripture, is His righteous displeasure against sin, and consequently against all in whose skirts sin is found, arising out of the essential and eternal opposition of His nature to all moral evil. This is called "the coming wrath," not as being wholly future--for as a merited sentence it lies on the sinner already, and its effects, both inward and outward, are to some extent experienced even now--but because the impenitent sinner will not, until "the judgment of the great day," be concluded under it, will not have sentence publicly and irrevocably passed upon him, will not have it discharged upon him and experience its effects without mixture and without hope. In this view of it, it is a wrath wholly to come, as is implied in the noticeably different form of the expression employed by the apostle in 1 Thessalonians 1:10 . Not that even true penitents came to John's baptism with all these views of "the wrath to come." But what he says is that this was the real import of the step itself. In this view of it, how striking is the word he employs to express that step--fleeing from it--as of one who, beholding a tide of fiery wrath rolling rapidly towards him, sees in instant flight his only escape!
8. Bring forth therefore fruits--the true reading clearly is "fruit";
meet for repentance--that is, such fruit as befits a true penitent. John now being gifted with a knowledge of the human heart, like a true minister of righteousness and lover of souls here directs them how to evidence and carry out their repentance, supposing it genuine; and in the following verses warns them of their danger in case it were not.
9. And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father--that pillow on which the nation so fatally reposed, that rock on which at length it spliterally
for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham--that is, "Flatter not yourselves with the fond delusion that God stands in need of you, to make good His promise of a seed to Abraham; for I tell you that, though you were all to perish, God is as able to raise up a seed to Abraham out of those stones as He was to take Abraham himself out of the rock whence he was hewn, out of the hole of the pit whence he was digged" ( Isaiah 51:1 ). Though the stem speaker may have pointed as he spoke to the pebbles of the bare clay hills that lay around (so STANLEY'S Sinai and Palestine), it was clearly the calling of the Gentiles at that time stone-dead in their sins, and quite as unconscious of it--into the room of unbelieving and disinherited Israel that he meant thus to indicate (see Matthew 21:43 , Romans 11:20 Romans 11:30 ).
10. And now also--And even already.
the axe is laid unto--"lieth at."
the root of the trees--as it were ready to strike: an expressive figure of impending judgment, only to be averted in the way next described.
therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire--Language so personal and individual as this can scarcely be understood of any national judgment like the approaching destruction of Jerusalem, with the breaking up of the Jewish polity and the extrusion of the chosen people from their peculiar privileges which followed it; though this would serve as the dark shadow, cast before, of a more terrible retribution to come. The "fire," which in another verse is called "unquenchable," can be no other than that future "torment" of the impenitent whose "smoke ascendeth up for ever and ever," and which by the Judge Himself is styled "everlasting punishment" ( Matthew 25:46 ). What a strength, too, of just indignation is in that word "cast" or "flung into the fire!"
The third Gospel here adds the following important particulars in Luke 3:10-16 .
Luke 3:10 :
And the people--the multitudes.
asked him, saying, What shall we do then?--that is, to show the sincerity of our repentance.Luke 3:11 :
He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat--provisions, victuals.
let him do likewise--This is directed against the reigning avarice and selfishness. (Compare the corresponding precepts of the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5:40-42 ).Luke 3:12 :
Then came also the publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master--Teacher.
what shall we do?--In what special way is the genuineness of our repentance to be manifested?Luke 3:13 :
And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you--This is directed against that extortion which made theLuke 3:14 :
And the soldiers--rather, "And soldiers"--the word means "soldiers on active duty."
likewise demanded--asked.
of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man--Intimidate. The word signifies to "shake thoroughly," and refers probably to the extorting of money or other property.
neither accuse any falsely--by acting as informers vexatiously on frivolous or false pretexts.
and be content with your wages--or "rations." We may take this, say WEBSTER and WILKINSON, as a warning against mutiny, which the officers attempted to suppress by largesses and donations. And thus the "fruits" which would evidence their repentance were just resistance to the reigning sins--particularly of the class to which the penitent belonged--and the manifestation of an opposite spirit.Luke 3:15 :
And as the people were in expectation--in a state of excitement, looking for something new
and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not--rather, "whether he himself might be the Christ." The structure of this clause implies that they could hardly think it, but yet could not help asking themselves whether it might not be; showing both how successful he had been in awakening the expectation of Messiah's immediate appearing, and the high estimation and even reverence, which his own character commanded.Luke 3:16 :
John answered--either to that deputation from Jerusalem, of which we read in John 1:19 , &c., or on some other occasion, to remove impressions derogatory to his blessed Master, which he knew to be taking hold of the popular mind.
saying unto them all--in solemn protestation.
(We now return to the first Gospel.)
11. I indeed baptize you with water unto
but he that cometh after me is mightier than I--In Mark and Luke this is more emphatic--"But there cometh the Mightier than I" ( 1:7 , Luke 3:16 ).
whose shoes--sandals.
I am not worthy to bear--The sandals were tied and untied, and borne about by the meanest servants.
he shall baptize you--the emphatic "He": "He it is," to the exclusion of all others, "that shall baptize you."
with the Holy Ghost--"So far from entertaining such a thought as laying claim to the honors of Messiahship, the meanest services I can render to that "Mightier than I that is coming after me" are too high an honor for me; I am but the servant, but the Master is coming; I administer but the outward symbol of purification; His it is, as His sole prerogative, to dispense the inward reality. Beautiful spirit, distinguishing this servant of Christ throughout!
and with fire--To take this as a distinct baptism from that of the Spirit--a baptism of the impenitent with hell-fire--is exceedingly unnatural. Yet this was the view of ORIGEN among the Fathers; and among moderns, of NEANDER, MEYER, DE WETTE, and LANGE. Nor is it much better to refer it to the fire of the great day, by which the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Clearly, as we think, it is but the fiery character of the Spirit's operations upon the soul-searching, consuming, refining, sublimating--as nearly all good interpreters understand the words. And thus, in two successive clauses, the two most familiar emblems--water and fire--are employed to set forth the same purifying operations of the Holy Ghost upon the soul.
12. Whose fan--winnowing fan.
is in his hand--ready for use. This is no other than the preaching of the Gospel, even now beginning, the effect of which would be to separate the solid from the spiritually worthless, as wheat, by the winnowing fan, from the chaff. (Compare the similar representation in Malachi 3:1-3 ).
and he will throughly purge his floor--threshing-floor; that is, the visible Church.
and gather his wheat--His true-hearted saints; so called for their solid worth (compare Amos 9:9 , Luke 22:31 ).
into the garner--"the kingdom of their Father," as this "garner" or "barn" is beautifully explained by our Lord in the parable of the wheat and the tares ( Matthew 13:30 Matthew 13:43 ).
but he will burn up the chaff--empty, worthless professors of religion, void of all solid religious principle and character (see Psalms 1:4 ).
with unquenchable fire--Singular is the strength of this apparent contradiction of figures:--to be burnt up, but with a fire that is unquenchable; the one expressing the utter destruction of all that constitutes one's true life, the other the continued consciousness of existence in that awful condition.
Luke adds the following important particulars ( Luke 3:18-20 ):
Luke 3:18 :
And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people--showing that we have here but an abstract of his teaching. Besides what we read in John 1:29 John 1:33 John 1:34 , 3:27-36 , the incidental allusion to his having taught his disciples to pray ( Luke 11:1 )--of which not a word is said elsewhere--shows how varied his teaching was.Luke 3:19 :
But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done--In this last clause we have an important fact, here only mentioned, showing how thoroughgoing was the fidelity of the Baptist to his royal hearer, and how strong must have been the workings of conscience in that slave of passion when, notwithstanding such plainness, he "did many things, and heard John gladly" ( Mark 6:20 ).Luke 3:20 :
Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison--This imprisonment of John, however, did not take place for some time after this; and it is here recorded merely because the Evangelist did not intend to recur to his history till he had occasion to relate the message which he sent to Christ from his prison at Machærus ( Luke 7:18 , &c.).
Matthew 3:13-17 . BAPTISM OF CHRIST AND DESCENT OF THE SPIRIT UPON HIM IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER. ( = 1:9-11 , Luke 3:21 Luke 3:22 , John 1:31-34 ).
Baptism of Christ ( Matthew 3:13-15 ).
13. Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him--Moses rashly anticipated the divine call to deliver his people, and for this was fain to flee the house of bondage, and wait in obscurity for forty years more ( Exodus 2:11 , &c.). Not so this greater than Moses. All but thirty years had He now spent in privacy at Nazareth, gradually ripening for His public work, and calmly awaiting the time appointed of the Father. Now it had arrived; and this movement from Galilee to Jordan is the step, doubtless, of deepest interest to all heaven since that first one which brought Him into the world. Luke ( Luke 3:21 ) has this important addition--"Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus being baptized," &c.--implying that Jesus waited till all other applicants for baptism that day had been disposed of, ere He stepped forward, that He might not seem to be merely one of the crowd. Thus, as He rode into Jerusalem upon an ass "whereon yet never man sat" ( Luke 19:30 ), and lay in a sepulchre "wherein was never man yet laid" ( John 19:41 ), so in His baptism, too. He would be "separate from sinners."
14. But John forbade him--rather, "was (in the act of) hindering him," or "attempting to hinder him."
saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?--(How John came to recognize Him, when he says he knew Him not, see John 1:31-34 ). The emphasis of this most remarkable speech lies all in the pronouns: "What! Shall the Master come for baptism to the servant--the sinless Saviour to a sinner?" That thus much is in the Baptist's words will be clearly seen if it be observed that he evidently regarded Jesus as Himself needing no purification but rather qualified to impart it to those who did. And do not all his other testimonies to Christ fully bear out this sense of the words? But it were a pity if, in the glory of this testimony to Christ, we should miss the beautiful spirit in which it was borne--"Lord, must I baptize Thee? Can I bring myself to do such a thing?"--reminding us of Peter's exclamation at the supper table, "Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?" while it has nothing of the false humility and presumption which dictated Peter's next speech. "Thou shall never wash my feet" ( John 13:6 John 13:8 ).
15. And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now--"Let it pass for the present"; that is, "Thou recoilest, and no wonder, for the seeming incongruity is startling; but in the present case do as thou art bidden."
for thus it becometh us--"us," not in the sense of me and thee," or "men in general," but as in John 3:11 .
to fulfil all righteousness--If this be rendered, with SCRIVENER, "every ordinance," or, with CAMPBELL, "every institution," the meaning is obvious enough; and the same sense is brought out by "all righteousness," or compliance with everything enjoined, baptism included. Indeed, if this be the meaning, our version perhaps best brings out the force of the opening word "Thus." But we incline to think that our Lord meant more than this. The import of circumcision and of baptism seems to be radically the same. And if our remarks on the circumcision of our Lord are well founded, He would seem to have said, "Thus do I impledge Myself to the whole righteousness of the Law--thus symbolically do enter on and engage to fulfil it all." Let the thoughtful reader weigh this.
Then he suffered him--with true humility, yielding to higher authority than his own impressions of propriety.
Descent of the Spirit upon the Baptized Redeemer ( Matthew 3:16 Matthew 3:17 ).
16. And Jesus when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water--rather, "from the water." Mark has "out of the water" ( Mark 1:10 ). "and"--adds Luke ( Luke 3:21 ), "while He was praying"; a grand piece of information. Can there be a doubt about the burden of that prayer; a prayer sent up, probably, while yet in the water--His blessed head suffused with the baptismal element; a prayer continued likely as He stepped out of the stream, and again stood upon the dry ground; the work before Him, the needed and expected Spirit to rest upon Him for it, and the glory He would then put upon the Father that sent Him--would not these fill His breast, and find silent vent in such form as this?--"Lo, I come; I delight to do Thy will, O God. Father, glorify Thy name. Show Me a token for good. Let the Spirit of the Lord God come upon Me, and I will preach the Gospel to the poor, and heal the broken-hearted, and send forth judgment unto victory." While He was yet speaking--
lo, the heavens were opened--Mark says, sublimely, "He saw the heavens cleaving" ( Mark 1:10 ).
and he saw the Spirit of God descending--that is, He only, with the exception of His honored servant, as he tells us himself ( John 1:32-34 ); the by-standers apparently seeing nothing.
like a dove, and lighting upon him--Luke says, "in a bodily shape" ( Luke 3:22 ); that is, the blessed Spirit, assuming the corporeal form of a dove, descended thus upon His sacred head. But why in this form? The Scripture use of this emblem will be our best guide here. "My dove, my undefiled is one," says the Song of Solomon ( Solomon 6:9 ). This is chaste purity. Again, "Be ye harmless as doves," says Christ Himself ( Matthew 10:16 ). This is the same thing, in the form of inoffensiveness towards men. "A conscience void of offense toward God and toward men" ( Acts 24:16 ) expresses both. Further, when we read in the Song of Solomon ( Solomon 2:14 ), "O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rocks, in the secret places of the stairs (see Isaiah 60:8 ), let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely"--it is shrinking modesty, meekness, gentleness, that is thus charmingly depicted. In a word--not to allude to the historical emblem of the dove that flew back to the ark, bearing in its mouth the olive leaf of peace ( Genesis 8:11 )--when we read ( Psalms 68:13 ), "Ye shall be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold," it is beauteousness that is thus held forth. And was not such that "holy, harmless, undefiled One," the "separate from sinners?" "Thou art fairer than the children of men; grace is poured into Thy lips; therefore God hath blessed Thee for ever!" But the fourth Gospel gives us one more piece of information here, on the authority of one who saw and testified of it: "John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and IT ABODE UPON HIM." And lest we should think that this was an accidental thing, he adds that this last particular was expressly given him as part of the sign by which he was to recognize and identify Him as the Son of God: "And I knew Him not: but He that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending AND REMAINING ON HIM, the same is He which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw and bare record that this is the Son of God" ( John 1:32-34 ). And when with this we compare the predicted descent of the Spirit upon Messiah ( Isaiah 11:2 ), "And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him," we cannot doubt that it was this permanent and perfect resting of the Holy Ghost upon the Son of God--now and henceforward in His official capacity--that was here visibly manifested.
17. And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is--Mark and Luke give it in the direct form, "Thou art." ( 1:11 , Luke 3:22 ).
my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased--The verb is put in the aorist to express absolute complacency, once and for ever felt towards Him. The English here, at least to modern ears, is scarcely strong enough. "I delight" comes the nearest, perhaps, to that ineffable complacency which is manifestly intended; and this is the rather to be preferred, as it would immediately carry the thoughts back to that august Messianic prophecy to which the voice from heaven plainly alluded ( Isaiah 42:1 ), "Behold My Servant, whom I uphold; Mine Elect, IN WHOM MY SOUL DELIGHTETH." Nor are the words which follow to be overlooked, "I have put My Spirit upon Him; He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles." (The Septuagint perverts this, as it does most of the Messianic predictions, interpolating the word "Jacob," and applying it to the Jews). Was this voice heard by the by-standers? From Matthew's form of it, one might suppose it so designed; but it would appear that it was not, and probably John only heard and saw anything peculiar about that great baptism. Accordingly, the words, "Hear ye Him," are not added, as at the Transfiguration.


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Fans of Karen Carpenter will want to check out "Close to You: The Music of the Carpenters" on Sept. 29 in Palos Hills. | File photo
Singer Lisa Rock and her six-piece band are bringing "Close to You: The Music of The Carpenters" to the Moraine Valley Community College stage at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 29.
The group will perform in the Dorothy Menker Theater in the Fine & Performing Arts Center on campus, 9000 W. College Parkway, Palos Hills. Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for seniors and students.
Rock has compiled a moving tribute to the music and life of Karen Carpenter, who is considered one of the best vocalists of all time by many.
Dedicated to re-creating the true sound of the Carpenters, Rock's four-octave range allows her to sing the hits
like "We've Only Just Begun," "Close to You" and "Rainy Days and Mondays" in their original key, keeping the songs genuine and
Rock goes beyond the music in the show. She draws the crowd in with anecdotes about Carpenter, Carpenter's life and how some of the songs originated.
Officials said Rock engages the audience to the point where they can't help but sing along and share the memories of the Carpenters and their music.
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The Moraine Valley Community College Fine & Performing Arts Center's 2012-13 season has something for everyone.
Performances will feature country and rock musicians, Eastern European dancing, tributes to the Carpenters and Simon & Garfunkel, Chicago improv comedy and much more.
The Fine & Performing Arts Center offers membership and subscription packages. Details can be found online and in the season brochure.
Mainstage Series
The Mainstage Series will feature world-class artists on the Dorothy Menker Theater stage.
Tickets for any Mainstage show are $25 for adults and $20 for seniors and students.
SEPT. 29: "Close to You: The Music of the Carpenters."
OCT. 13: The Ides of March featuring Jim Peterik: With its signature horn riff and opening line, "I'm a friendly stranger in the black sedan," the Ides of March's "Vehicle" burst onto the Billboard charts and in 1970 became the fastest-breaking single in Warner Bros. history.
The band's show spans three decades of music that include Peterik's catalog of top 40 hits including "Hold on Loosely," "Caught Up in You," "High on You," "L.A. Goodbye," "The Search is Over," "Eye of the Tiger" and more.
NOV. 10: The Intergalactic Nemesis presents "Live-Action Graphic Novel."
NOV. 17: Katie Armiger.
DEC. 8: Moscow Boys Choir presents "Christmas Around the World."
DEC. 15: "Jingle Bell Rock: A Raucous Holiday Revue!"
JAN. 19: Tamburitzans, of Duquesne University.
JAN. 26: The Second City presents "Laughing Matters."
FEB. 9: Thodos Dance Chicago presents "The White City: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893."
APRIL 13: Robin Spielberg's "American Tapestry."
MAY 11: "Feelin' Groovy — A Musical Journey Through the '60s featuring the music of Simon & Garfunkel" starring Jim Witter.
Family Series
The Family Series provides fun for the whole family.
Tickets for the Family Series are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and students, and $10 for ages 12 years and younger.
MARCH 23: Kenya Safari Acrobats: Offering a truly unique cultural experience, Kenya Safari Acrobats hail from the heart of Africa.
"This awe-inspiring and dynamic dance troupe takes acrobatics to exhilarating extremes," officials said.
The members learned acrobatics as children on the beaches of Kenya, as a means to break free from an impoverished country.
Now they serve as artistic ambassadors for Kenya as they travel the globe, performing a nonstop ride of gravity-defying human pyramids, balancing, tumbling, limbo dancing, hurling through hoops and breathtaking contortions, all while clapping to a joyful Benga beat.
APRIL 6: "A Lamb Chop Celebration" featuring Mallory Lewis: One can bring the whole family for an entertaining hour of laughter and song.
Attendees will encounter beloved children's icon Lamb Chop, skillfully bought to life by Shari Lewis' daughter Mallory Lewis.
"Fun for all ages, kids will fall in love with Lamb Chop, teens and twentysomethings will remember Lamb Chop from 'Lamb Chop's Play-Along' and grown-ups will enjoy revisiting their youth as they laugh and sing along with Lamb Chop and Mally," officials said.
Academic Theater Series
The Academic Theater Department will stage three productions.
Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for seniors and students.
NOV. 1-4: "Avenue Q": Part flesh (humans), part felt (puppets) and packed with heart, "Avenue Q" is a laugh-out-loud musical that tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q.
There, he meets the girl next door, an Internet sexpert, and Gary Coleman (need we say more?) along with other colorful types who help Princeton finally discover his purpose in life.
"Avenue Q" was the winner of Tony Awards for best musical, best score and best book.
This show contains adult language and puppet nudity.
FEB. 22-24 and MARCH 1-3: "Waiting for Lefty": Imagine a January night in 1935, six years into the Great Depression. At the Civic Repertory Theater in New York City, a play about a 1934 taxicab strike ends with an audience of about 1,400 erupting and shouting.
Imagine 22 curtain calls and a standing ovation of 45 minutes, actors merging with the audience into a chorus of hope in the face of economic depression.
" 'Waiting for Lefty' is a provocative American classic that still resonates today," officials said.
APRIL 26-28 and MAY 3-5: "Angels in America."
Academic Music Series
Tickets for most Academic Music concerts are $12 for adults and $10 for seniors and students.
The Moraine Chorale and Chamber Singers will perform four concerts:
OCT. 6: "The Great American Songbook."
DEC. 1: "Merry Christmas Music."
MARCH 9: "Opera Again and Again."
MAY 4: "Broadway/Pop/Motion Picture Spectacular."
The Concert Band will perform three concerts.
DEC. 2: "Christmas Music and More."
MARCH 7: "Dances, Portraits and Folk Songs."
MAY 5: "American Classics and Audience Favorites."
The Jazz Ensemble will perform three concerts:
NOV. 30: "Holiday Concert" with special guest artist.
MARCH 8: "A Big Double Header" featuring the Brass Tracks.
MAY 3: "Spring Concert" with special guest artist.
The Percussion Ensemble will perform two concerts, which are free to attend:
DEC. 6: "Holiday Concert."
MAY 9: "Spring Concert."
Patrons of Moraine Valley Community College's Fine & Performing Arts Center will receive a 25 percent discount on dinner at Ciao Ristorante, 10296 S. 78th Ave., Palos Hills, when they make a reservation for before or after a Mainstage Series production and show their ticket stubs.
To be placed on the mailing list for Moraine Valley Community College's Fine & Performing Arts Center's season brochure or for more information on these performances, call the box office at (708) 974-5500 or email to email@example.com.
Tickets can be purchased online (additional fees will be incurred), in person, by mail or over the phone. Box office hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays and one hour prior to all performances. Holiday hours may vary.
Additional information, updates and new performances can be found at morainevalley.edu/fpac.

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"It's just going to be another event to help raise money for our United Way — a fun event," said Executive Director Peggy Davis.
The United Way is an organization devoted to improving community life through the promotion of education, financial stability, and healthy living.
The money raised at the competition will go towards the United Way agencies, which includes American Red Cross, Bolivar County Literacy Council, Boy Scouts Chickasaw Council, Community Counseling Center, 4-H of Bolivar County, Girl Scouts Heart of the South, Helping Hands Community Assistance, Our House Inc., Sunny Seniors, St. Jude Children's Hospital, and United Service Organizations.
"We've got someone who will be doing the Cha Cha … someone doing the Two-step," said Davis. "We won't choose the dances for them. They will decide and let us know. There are five dance couples, possibly six. The judges will be scoring them on appearance, showmanship, originality, and overall performance."
Gift baskets filled with "goodies and gift certificates" will be awarded to the first place winner as well as a special award known as the people's choice. "It will be awarded to the couple with the most votes, and it's a dollar a vote," explained Davis.
"If anyone wants to make a donation, they can donate that night or they can make it payable to the United Way of Cleveland-Bolivar County or bring it directly to me," said Davis.
In addition those interested may go to the United Way website, www.unitedwayclevbc.org, and donate.
The evening will begin at 6 p.m. with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres. The dance competition will begin at 7 p.m., followed by entertainment and awards. The night will end with an open floor for anyone's dancing pleasure.
Davis also noted that Katherine Grant, aka Katt, would be the DJ for the evening.
"I have a committee helping, and they have been wonderful," said Davis. "This is our first year! Hopefully we can continue to do this. I would like to see it."
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Gabriel Medina has become the first ever Brazilian, and the equal youngest, men's ASP World Champion. Riding the FCS II Performer template exclusively in 2014, Medina lead for most of the season and rose to the occasion in the last event to clinch the title over Kelly Slater and fellow team rider Mick Fanning.
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Need a good source -- book and website -- for beginning a marine aquarium. asked Nov 26 '12 at 16:26 Kevin Kelly |
I found this book to be a good starting point: The New Marine Aquarium by Michael Paletta Here's a list of recommended reading: http://www.thereeftank.com/books/index.htm Forums are a great resource: ReefCentral Reef2Reef TheReefTank 3Reef linkanswered Nov 26 '12 at 17:14 Markus |
As Markus has already pointed out, Internet sites, especially forums, are a great place to start. More than that, they're also a really great place to stop, if you want. It's not that there aren't some amazing books out there. But to give you some idea of the flux, species that were imagined to be forever unraisable in captivity in, say, the 80's, are now the aquarium equivalent to gardening dandelions, so that the hardest part of keeping them is pruning them often enough (here I'm thinking of some types of corals). This is in part due to some technical advances most especially in lighting, but also largely because of the Internet's ability to turn a horde of previously poorly connected amateur scientists with anecdotal data into curators of a very successful distributed experiment in what works best for marine aquarium keeping. As a result, hobbyists are now in many cases at the leading edge of marine aquarium husbandry, and significantly contributing to the practices of commercial aquarists and aquaculturists. Because of this, any book you buy should be heavily cross-referenced with the sites mentioned by Markus above and a few I'll add below. Even factoring in the fact that any goofus can post to an Internet forum so that you have to sort of divide out the blowhards to see the consensus of great advice, the Internet still comes out ahead of even the best books, and there are some great ones. If you're set on hardcopy, a quick Amazon search for "marine aquarium > search by avg customer review" gets Bob Fenner's Conscientious Marine Aquarist and Michael Paletta's "The New Marine Aquarium". These are both really excellent classics. They are also 13 and 14 years in print respectively, predating effective LED lighting, commercial availability of captively bred Mandarin Gobies, etc., etc. To make things worse, in both older and newer titles there are some execrably bad books out there. A newer one that looks like a good bet, that I have not read to be fair, is Vargas and Sprung's The Coral Reef Aquarium (2011). For the web, in addition to sites Markus has mentioned, I'd add http://www.wetwebmedia.com/, which will get back to your individual questions about very specific things, with unbelievably careful encyclopedic answers, in the unlikely event that your answer isn't in the enormous searchable backlog of questions. Also through reefcentral is the reefkeeping magazine blog at www.reefkeeping.com; reading the husbandry details listed by each month's winner of the "tank of the month" will let you see some common tips that pop up over and over in these tanks. If at all possible going to a meeting of a local club (see the local club forums way at the bottom of reefcentral forums) will save you hours of internet or library reading. Finally, I first took the plunge and avoided dithering over some of the either/or setup choices that can be hotly debated online by going with a simple unequivocal set of suggestions that comprises one way to do it that will work: the GARF bulletproof reef calculator, at http://www.garf.org/bulletproofreef/bulletproof.asp . I do a lot of things differently now (see above about tips via tank of the month threads), but some of my best "low $, low time, just works" variations that I'm able to share with people who ask about my tank are quirky vestiges of my GARF-style initiation. linkanswered Nov 26 '12 at 19:03 chunk |
Chunk, that is excellent. Thanks! linkanswered Nov 26 '12 at 20:10 Kevin Kelly |


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For additional details on this case, please see "Growers likely to stand alone in cantaloupe deaths case"
(UPDATED COVERAGE 6 p.m.) Federal charges against cantaloupe growers Eric and Ryan Jensen mark the first time produce and food safety experts recall criminal charges against a grower in relation to a foodborne illness outbreak.
The Jensen brothers surrendered to federal authorities Sept. 26 in Denver, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney John Walsh. A Dec. 2 trial date is set for the case. The brothers each posted bonds of $100,000 and were released, said Jeffrey Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Denver.
This Jensens are each charged with six misdemeanor criminal counts related to the 2011 cantaloupe-related listeria outbreak that killed at least 33 people and sickened 147 in 28 states.
The case marks the first time Bob Whitaker, chief scientific officer for the Newark, Del.-based Produce Marketing Association, recalls growers facing criminal charges in an outbreak.
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Similarly, Seattle food safety attorney Bill Marler, who represents dozens of people sickened in the 2011 cantaloupe outbreak, said the criminal charges are not the norm.
"In 20 years of food safety law experience I do not recall a grower facing federal criminal charges in relation to an outbreak," Marler said.
The Denver U.S. Attorney's staff visited Marler's offices in 2013 and collected copies of the attorney's files on Jensen cantaloupe-related deaths.
If convicted on all six misdemeanor criminal counts, each of the brothers face a maxiumum of six years in prison and $1.5 million in fines each. The charges are for allegedly introducing adulterated cantaloupe into interstate commerce and aiding and abetting.
Special Agent in Charge Patrick Holland of the FDA Office of Criminal Investigations, Kansas City Field Office, said in the U.S. Attorney's news release that "the filing of criminal charges in this deadly outbreak sends the message that absolute care must be taken to ensure that deadly pathogens do not enter our food supply chain."


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Inspectors found "poor sanitary conditions" at his packing shed — and three types of salmonella on cantaloupes and equipment — but the owner of Chamberlain Farms contends there isn't any link between his fruit and an outbreak that has killed three.
"While we acknowledge that the FDA report notes certain conditions allegedly observed at Chamberlain Farms, there is nothing in the report to indicate the conditions are a source of or contributed to any reported illnesses," owner Tim Chamberlain said in a written statement issued via his attorney Oct. 4.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, however, reports 270 people in 26 states have been sickened by two strains of salmonella that are "indistinguishable" from the salmonella at the farm. The illnesses began July 6.
Also, the Kentucky Department of Health confirmed the match of one strain in August on Chamberlain cantaloupe collected at retail. The CDC later matched two strains on Chamberlain cantaloupes and watermelons at the Owensville, Ind. farm to the outbreak strains.
The Food and Drug Administration released a report Oct. 3 on findings Aug. 14-31 at the farm. It details a variety of "poor sanitary conditions." It is on file in the FDA's Freedom of Information Act electronic reading room: tinyurl.com/Chamberlain-report.
The investigation is ongoing, FDA officials said Oct. 4, but agency policy bars them from discussing details.
Inspector Meisha Waters recorded numerous problems in her Aug. 14-31 report. She did the inspection while the packing shed was operating.
"I observed, standing water in the packing shed on the floor … and on the drip table … This water appeared to have algae growing in it," Waters wrote in the inspection report.
She reported that swabs of surfaces in the packing shed and on cantaloupe from the field and in a cardboard bin in the shed tested positive for three kinds of salmonella.
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Affordable DSP and expert programming transform a small church system.
Mike Wentz knew what he wanted: a hands-off, professional AV system. As the operations manager for St. Lucy Catholic Parish in Campbell, Calif., he wanted clear music and intelligible speech in the sanctuary, and a locked-down rack with a simple touchscreen and iPad control behind the scenes. He didn't want anyone to be able to touch an analog button ever again.
St. Lucy Parish is in California's Silicon Valley and Wentz expected a modern IT-style system design. As a former high-tech engineer and executive responsible for parish operations, he's passionate about things that work elegantly. But as he walks me through the building, he explains that his driving priority was in fact theological. Catholic teaching states that weekly liturgical service is the "primary and indispensable source from which the faithful are to derive the true Christian spirit," he explains. "A central part of that teaching is that 'The faithful should be led to fully conscious, and active participation.'"
"When you consider the ramifications of these teachings with respect to a sound system in the modern world, it clearly requires that it accurately and clearly reproduces the spoken word as well as supporting a wide variety of musical forms and instruments," he continues. "The challenge is that most churches, including ours, do not have experienced sound engineers on staff, so we must find a way to simplify and automate that process so that we can meet the requirements of our teachings."
It's no secret that many churches face intelligibility issues. At St. Lucy, as with many churches, there are many voices, most of them amateur speakers and singers. In a single service, a wide variety of readers will participate, each with very different vocal characteristics and volume.
Wentz says the existing system did very little to reinforce music or speech. The ceiling speakers were distributed throughout the square box of the sanctuary with no focus or delays, the busy RF airwaves created mic interference, and the analog controls were subject to infinite adjustment by well-meaning amateur operators, which translated to volume and feedback problems. The various bands and choirs that accompany the many services at St. Lucy's were essentially heard acoustically, faintly emanating from one corner of the boxy room.
Since Wentz was so clear in his mind about the theological implications of the inadequate system, he set out to secure funding for the upgrade on those grounds. He succeeded, and after a search for a modern, IT-savvy integrator he hired San Jose-based Zamar Media Solutions. President Michael Dow did the systems design personally, intrigued by the opportunity to create a mid-scale system that could—through DSP and programming—meet Wentz requirements and deliver quality sound in a hands-off manner.
"It's a classic dilemma for many churches: how to get and maintain high-quality sound without professional operators," Dow says. Dow's experience as a programmer is part of Zamar's value proposition and as a Christian business, he is keenly aware of a church's mission and logistics. "They are not going to have a professional operator, so we try to capture that expertise through the programming—we essentially try to build our sound knowledge into the system during the programming phase. Many times, end-users don't know to ask for that level of detail in the programming, or integrators don't know how to do it, or they don't put enough programming time in the bid—for whatever reason, it doesn't happen. As church specialists we make sure that we spend enough time to give the client what they are looking for to support their mission." Which means, Dow says, giving them an automated version of a sound professional, crafted through careful programming.
"The concept here was trying to provide a complex system for amateur operators," Dow says. "The challenge is to integrate as much of our sound knowledge as possible into the fixed system."
The core of the system is the Symetrix DSP. Dow is a longtime Symetrix user, but St. Lucy was his first opportunity to use the new SymNet Radius 12x8, which had just come out; the system uses two Radius 12x8 connected via Dante. "We'd originally specified the Express 8x8, but we were excited to use the Radius. With it's fixed I/O (12-in/8-out), it falls at an accessible price point, so it lets us bring our programming approach to churches that need more affordable systems. It's more processing horsepower for less money and it also incorporates the Dante networking capabilities. The cost-per-power is so good," Dow says.
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The safety of those who have God for their refuge. (1-8) Their favour with Him. (9-16)
Verses 1-8 He that by faith chooses God for his protector, shall find all in him that he needs or can desire. And those who have found the comfort of making the Lord their refuge, cannot but desire that others may do so. The spiritual life is protected by Divine grace from the temptations of Satan, which are as the snares of the fowler, and from the contagion of sin, which is a noisome pestilence. Great security is promised to believers in the midst of danger. Wisdom shall keep them from being afraid without cause, and faith shall keep them from being unduly afraid. Whatever is done, our heavenly Father's will is done; and we have no reason to fear. God's people shall see, not only God's promises fulfilled, but his threatenings. Then let sinners come unto the Lord upon his mercy-seat, through the Redeemer's name; and encourage others to trust in him also.
Verses 9-16 Whatever happens, nothing shall hurt the believer; though trouble and affliction befal, it shall come, not for his hurt, but for good, though for the present it be not joyous but grievous. Those who rightly know God, will set their love upon him. They by prayer constantly call upon him. His promise is, that he will in due time deliver the believer out of trouble, and in the mean time be with him in trouble. The Lord will manage all his worldly concerns, and preserve his life on earth, so long as it shall be good for him. For encouragement in this he looks unto Jesus. He shall live long enough; till he has done the work he was sent into this world for, and is ready for heaven. Who would wish to live a day longer than God has some work to do, either by him or upon him? A man may die young, yet be satisfied with living. But a wicked man is not satisfied even with long life. At length the believer's conflict ends; he has done for ever with trouble, sin, and temptation.
Psalms 91:1-16 . David is the most probable author; and the pestilence, mentioned in 2 Samuel 24:13-15 , the most probable of any special occasion to which the Psalm may refer. The changes of person allowable in poetry are here frequently made.
1. dwelleth in the secret place--( Psalms 27:5 , 31:20 ) denotes nearness to God. Such as do so abide or lodge secure from assaults, and can well use the terms of trust in Psalms 91:2 .
3. snares . . . [and] . . . noisome pestilence--literally, "plagues of mischiefs" ( Psalms 5:9 , 52:7 ), are expressive figures for various evils.
4. For the first figure compare Deuteronomy 32:11 , Matthew 23:37 .
buckler--literally, "surrounding"--that is, a kind of shield covering all over.
5. terror--or, what causes it ( Proverbs 20:2 ).
by night--then aggravated.
arrow--that is, of enemies.
7, 8. The security is more valuable, as being special, and, therefore, evidently of God; and while ten thousands of the wicked fall, the righteous are in such safety that they only see the calamity.
9-12. This exemption from evil is the result of trust in God, who employs angels as ministering spirits ( Hebrews 1:14 ).
13. Even the fiercest, strongest, and most insidious animals may be trampled on with impunity.
14-16. God Himself speaks (compare Psalms 46:10 , Psalms 75:2 Psalms 75:3 ). All the terms to express safety and peace indicate the most undoubting confidence (compare Psalms 18:2 , 20:1 , 22:5 ).
set his love--that of the most ardent kind.
16. show him--literally, "make him see" ( Psalms 50:23 , Luke 2:30 ).


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Iron & Wine will head across the pond this spring for a short tour of select European cities.
29 May . Olympia Theatre, Dublin, IE
30 May . Opera House, Manchester, UK
31 May . The Barbican, London, UK
01 June . La Cigale, Paris, FR
02 June . Vrendenburg, Utrecht, NL
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Flights to Bucharest land in a city rebuilding itself, with a Communist colossus close to the compact old city.
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On Sundays the choir's choruses drift out of Stavropoleos Monastery, its tiny darkened interior awash with stucco work and frescoes. Flights to Bucharest also take you to Lipscani, Bucharest's old city, where archaeological ruins lie alongside new bars and restaurants crowding its narrow streets.
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Sleeping Bag Care
- Hand wash warm, 105 degrees Fahrenheit or 40 degrees Celsius or machine wash Warm, Gentle cycle in a front load washer only.
- If you need to use a detergent, only use powdered form
- Rinse thoroughly
- Do not wring your sleeping bag
- Hang dry or tumble dry on low heat. If tumble drying a down bag, toss a couple of clean tennis balls in the dryer to help re-loft the bag
- After your bag is dry, store in a loose storage container. Cotton or mesh stuff sacks or extra-large pillow cases work well
- Do not store in a space where temperatures could exceed 125 degree Fahrenheit
- Do not bleach
- Do not iron
- Do not dry clean