Word
of God
But
he answering, said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread only,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
The
Gospel According to Matthew 4:4
Psalm
14:4
Prefaced
& Edited by Doktor Riktor Von Zhades
Do
not all the workers of iniquity know that they eat up my people, as
they eat bread? they call not upon the Lord.
Brethren:
Consider
also this day in your meditations Psalm 79:6; Jeremiah 10:25; Amos
8:4; Micah 3:3
“Of
the being of God, of the nature of sin, and of the punishment due
unto it? This question is put either by way of admiration, as Kimchi
and Aben Ezra observe; the psalmist, or rather God speaking after the
manner of men, wondering that there should be such ignorance and
stupidity among men, as before expressed; or rather, as denying this
to be the case, and affirming that they have knowledge,
notwithstanding they think, and say, and do, as before related, as in
(Read Romans 9:21 ) . Do not they know that there is a God? and that
they are accountable to him for their actions? Verily they do: for
this is said, not of sinners of the Gentiles; though even they, by
the light of nature, know there is a God, and show the work of the
law written in their hearts; and have a consciousness in them of good
and evil; but of sinners in Zion, of the profligate part of mankind
among the Jews, who had a divine revelation, by which they knew the
one God of Israel; and a law, by which was the knowledge of sin, and
whose sanctions were rewards and punishments. And it seems to design
the chief among them, who had power over others, to eat them up and
devour them; even their political and ecclesiastical governors (Read
Ezekiel 34:2 ) , who, though they had no spiritual understanding, nor
experimental knowledge of things, yet had a theoretical and
speculative one; so that their sins were attended with this
aggravation, that they were against light and knowledge. Nor pray to
him, or serve and worship him; for invocation includes the whole
worship of God; and this they do not, though they know him, and are
daily supplied by him, and eat his bread. Some read this clause with
the former, "they eat bread, and call not on the Lord"; as
if their sin was, that when they eat bread, they did not ask a
blessing upon it, nor return thanks to God for it, which ought to be
done; but the accent "athnach"(a) under ‘bread’,
will not admit of this sense, though it seems to be countenanced by
the Targum.”
John
Gill - Theologian
(a)
These are accent marks used in the old Hebrew texts
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