10Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
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Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. …
And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. …
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-11)Two things we are apt to take a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction in, and value ourselves upon, with reference to our business and enjoyments in the world, as if they helped to save them from vanity. Solomon shows us our mistake in both. 1. The novelty of the invention, that it is such as was never known before. How grateful is it to think that none ever made such advances in knowledge, and…
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