Synonyms: renounce, relinquish, dispense with, forswear, disclaim, disown, disavow, discard, wash one's hands of, give up, stop, cease, drop, forgo, desist from, have done with, abjure, abstain from, discontinue, break off, refrain from, set/lay aside, desert, leave, leave high and dry, turn one's back on, cast aside, break (up) with, vacate, quit, evacuate, withdraw from, surrender, cede, yield, indulge in, give way to, give oneself up to, yield to, lose oneself to/in, uninhibitedness, recklessness, lack of restraint, lack of inhibition, unruliness, wildness, impulsiveness, impetuosity, immoderation, wantonness
Antonyms: keep, claim, continue, stick by, self-control, power through, achieve, defend, bear, hope, acquire, quick visit, adopt, continue along, adhere, remain, pursue, support, take up, keep up, reuse, advocate, stay, persevere, cherish, keep going, carry on
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701. Sayings of Agur
Proverbs 30:1-33
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Roland E. Murphy
... the beginning of each verse. Four classes of wrongdoers are singled out for (implicit) condemnation: those who dishonor parents, hypocrites, the proud, and those who exploit the poor. Additional Notes 30:1 Hb. grammar would call for the insertion of a gentilic yod to yield “the Massaite.” Then “oracle” (Hb. n e ʾum) is to be construed with “the man” (Hb. haggeber). The translations proposed for the rest of the verse are many, as can be seen from the survey by Whybray (Composition, p. 150, n. 3 ...
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Roland E. Murphy
... as the long form of Lael (Num. 3:24), “to God.” 31:3 Vigor of the NIV is an uncertain translation of the MT, which is normally “ways” (so NRSV), but it fits the parallelism. Hb. lam e ḥôt seems to be revocalized in the NIV to yield “(female) destroyers of kings” (Hb. l e mīḥôt). 31:4 To crave of the NIV interprets ʾw (Kethib; the Qere is ʾy, “where”) as derived from Hb. ʾwh, “to desire.” 31:8 Destitute is an uncertain translation of “vanishing?"—the form is the infinitive ...
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Roland E. Murphy
... indicates unusual responsibility, buying a field and planting a vineyard from the profits she makes. Verse 17 gives a picturesque description: “she girds her loins with strength”; vigor is her girdle (cf. Ps. 93:1). She “tastes” (v. 18; NIV, sees) that her trading yields profit (cf. the successful trading qualities of Wisdom in 3:14), and she works far into the night. Her active hands and arms are at work spinning wool (cf. v. 13) and also providing for the needy (vv. 19–20). Her household (v. 21 ...
704. Obey the King
Ecclesiastes 8:2-17
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Elizabeth Huwiler
... in this clause occur there. 8:8 Over the wind to contain it: As the NIV footnote indicates, the Hb. rûa? can mean either “wind” or “breath.” If the latter is the correct sense, it indicates lack of control over life and death. 8:10 Buried: A slight emendation yields “approach,” which better fits the context. 8:11 Sentence: The word used, pitg?m, is a Persian loanword. Here it may refer either to the judicial sentence for a crime or to a divine judgment.
705. Israel Forsakes God
Jeremiah 2:1-3:5
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Tremper Longman III
... became a corrupt, wild vine. This image is reminiscent of the “Song of the Vineyard” in Isaiah 5:1–7. Isaiah there speaks of God’s special care and concern for his vineyard where he planted the “choicest vines.” But while expecting good fruit, “it yielded only bad fruit” (5:2). God did everything necessary for God’s people to turn out for the better, but they willfully turned degenerate. 2:22–25 The guilt of God’s people is so deep it cannot be easily removed. An analogy is drawn ...
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Tremper Longman III
... whose name was Vidranga. In this letter they make mention of another letter that they sent concerning the matter of rebuilding to Johanan the high priest (Neh. 12:22–23), but this letter has gone unanswered. Interestingly, the finds have also yielded a memorandum of an oral response from the Judean governor and from the son of the Samarian governor to the effect that they gave permission to rebuild the temple, though permission to offer animal sacrifices is conspicuously absent, perhaps indicating a ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... a pit dug deep at Shittim,” reading wešaḥat haššiṭṭîm. This latter translation has the advantage of continuing the metaphor of hunting, which begins in verse 1 with the mention of the fowler’s snare and the hunter’s net. It also yields a perfectly formed divine saying in verse 1–2, consisting of a threefold call to listen, a threefold hunting image, and a line occurring after each of the triads. On the basis of the proposed emendation to 5:2a, some commentators have maintained that verses ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... . The Uselessness of Israel (8:7b-10): 8:7b–10 The prophet used a wisdom saying to set forth the concluding announcement of judgment in the preceding oracle. Now he uses another wisdom saying to sound the theme that follows in this brief oracle: Grain that forms no head yields no kernels that may be ground into flour; it is useless. Or if it does form heads and aliens eat it, it is useless to its grower. So too is Israel (v. 8) swallowed up and useless to the one who has “planted” it (cf. 2:23), to ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... , biblical Palestine was a rich and fertile land, so abundant in produce that it could be said to flow with milk and honey and furnish its inhabitants with every necessity (Deut. 8:6–9). The pomegranate, prized for its large, red, juice-yielding fruits, grew in the Jordan Valley. Wheat and barley were abundant and the most important cereals. Even apples were grown and prized for their refreshing and restorative properties in illness, although they were inferior to the apples we know today, and some ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... life. Indeed, Joel’s portrayals of that life, borrowing partially from Amos 9:13, pick up the themes of his first chapter and show their exact opposite. Once the sweet, new wine was cut off from Judah (1:5), but now the mountainsides with their vineyards will yield it in abundance. Once the cattle gave no milk, because there was no pasture for them (1:18), but now in God’s kingdom abundant pastureland on the hills will ensure copious supply. Once, in the drought, there was no water (1:17–20), but now ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... cf. Lev. 3; 7:11–13), as do thank offering and leavened bread in 5a (Lev. 7:11–15). Portions of all of these could be eaten in communion meals with the deity (Lev. 22:29–30). Similarly, tithes (v. 4d) were a tenth of the annual yield of the land, which were taken to the sanctuary, and there eaten in a festive meal “before the LORD” (Deut. 14:22–29). Freewill offerings (v. 5b) were voluntary sacrifices that were specialized uses of the peace offerings (Lev. 7:16–17; 22:18–23). The Israelites ...
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John Goldingay
... as he tells us of his response to God’s revelation and what he does next about communicating it (Dan. 2:19–28) before telling us what it is (Dan. 2:29–45). So Habakkuk has moved from dispute to submission, like Job. Yet this does not mean he simply yields to silence (any more than Job does?). There are two senses in which he declines to do so. First, he is not keen on the idea that Yahweh’s action might have to wait a long time (it will actually wait many decades, of course), and he wants to make ...
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John Goldingay
... ”). The word for “spirit” is also the word for “wind” with its energy and forcefulness, and it is this drive that Yahweh has now stirred up (see the comments on “spirit” in connection with 2:5). Leaders and people respond to this arousing, yield to this provocation, and set to work (melaʾkah; the word is related to the words for “messenger/message” in v. 13), within 23 days (v. 15). Additional Notes 1:1 The name Zerubbabel would suggest “offspring of Babylon.” In Heb., strictly it ...
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J. Ramsey Michaels
... ’s directive. The NIV’s Dear woman is too intimate. Either woman alone or “My dear woman” would have conveyed better the intended note of mild annoyance. 2:6 From twenty to thirty gallons: lit., “two or three measures.” A “measure” was about nine gallons, yielding an approximation of 20 or 25 gallons for each jar. 2:8 Now draw some out. B. F. Westcott suggested that Jesus is commanding more water to be drawn from the well from which the jars had been filled, not from the jars themselves (The ...
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J. Ramsey Michaels
... .24, 12.25, 13.15). Metaphorically, born of water and the Spirit would then mean born of a seed or sperm that is spiritual and not physical (H. Odeberg, The Fourth Gospel [Amsterdam: B. R. Grüner, 1968; reprint of 1929 edition], pp. 63–64). This would yield a masculine metaphor of God as Father in the sense of male procreator (cf. 1 John 3:9). The problem with this view (aside from the heaping of metaphor on metaphor!) is that water is not among the expressions for physical birth listed in 1:13. And when ...
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J. Ramsey Michaels
... group among them is clearly the group that says he is not from God. Their investigation proceeds in three stages: After their initial interview with the man born blind (vv. 13–17), the Pharisees summoned his parents (vv. 18–23), and when that exchange yielded no answers, they called the man in again for a second round of questioning (vv. 24–34). As for the man himself, the more he is asked to repeat his story the more his understanding of Jesus grows. To the bystanders he speaks in noncommittal ...
717. The Impending Departure I
John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14, John 14:15-31
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J. Ramsey Michaels
... according to a simple pattern repeated in verses 15–20 and verse 21. In answer to the last question, Jesus does not carry the thought further, but simply repeats the pattern for a third time, only now with a negative corollary (vv. 23–24). The section as a whole yields the following picture: If you love me, you will obey what I command (v. 15). Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to ...
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J. Ramsey Michaels
... is none of Peter’s business: If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? (v. 22). Discipleship implies a specific level of commitment but not a specific outcome to one’s life. Everyone who would be a disciple must yield total obedience to the call and command of God, but the call and command is not the same for every person. For Peter, following meant an “imitation of Jesus” as shepherd, ending in a death that would be analogous (though not identical) to his. For the beloved ...
719. Shining as Stars
Philippians 2:12-18
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F. F. Bruce
... Paul says if I am being poured out like a drink offering (Gk. ei kai spendomai), he is not thinking of a literal libation of blood such as was poured out in some pagan cults (cf. Ps. 16:4: “their libations of blood”); he is thinking of the willing yielding up of his life to God. Charles Wesley, in memorable lines, prays that his life may be a perpetual sacrifice, kindled “on the mean altar of my heart” by the flame of the Spirit: Ready for all thy perfect will, My acts of faith and love repeat, Till ...
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F. F. Bruce
... than that which their neighbors observed; they were content for their mind to be on earthly things. There was, in fact, no reason to think that they had ever been touched by the grace of God proclaimed in the gospel; their lives were far from yielding the fruit of the Spirit. Additional Notes 3:18 Before the enemies of the cross of Christ P46 inserts “watch out for” (Gk. blepete, borrowed from v. 2). Polycarp quotes the phrase “enemies of the cross” (To the Philippians, 12:3); earlier in the same ...
721. God’s Love and Ours
1 John 4:7-21, 1 John 5:1-12
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Thomas F. Johnson
... A. Trites, The New Testament Concept of Witness (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1977), and J. M. Boice, Witness and Revelation in the Gospel of John (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1970). 5:10 The variation in the use of the Greek prepositions with the verb for believe does not yield any difference in meaning. It is typical of this author to vary his style of writing with no significance to the variation; Brown, Epistles, p. 589. This verse, along with the rest of 5:6–11, John 15:26, and Rom. 8:16, formed the ...
722. The Sons of Noah
Genesis 9:18-29
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John E. Hartley
... points to Israel, the people of God, coming through the line of Shem and bringing blessing to the peoples descending from Japheth. Comparing the response of Noah’s sons to the transgression of Ham with the reactions of Adam’s sons to murder yields valuable insight. Cain showed no remorse for having killed his brother, and Lamech boasted of his willingness to commit multiple murders (4:9, 23–24). Although Ham bragged about what he had seen, two of Noah’s three sons, including the oldest, acted ...
723. Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed
Genesis 19:30-38, Genesis 19:1-29
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John E. Hartley
... . Lot’s compassion stood in marked contrast to the callous attitude of Sodom’s citizens. 19:3 Lot pressed the strangers to come to his house. This indicates how apprehensive he was about their safety should they spend the night in the square. The messengers yielded and went with Lot to his house. He prepared a meal for them. In contrast to the sumptuous feast Abraham had prepared for these travelers, only unleavened bread is mentioned here. Perhaps the cost of living was so high in this great city that ...
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John E. Hartley
... field, the open space. He then asked God to give him of heaven’s dew. In Canaan, dew is essential for the summer crops to mature during the rainless summers. Thus dew symbolizes fertility. He also asked God to give of earth’s richness. The fields would yield grain and new wine in abundance. Isaac next prayed that nations might serve him. As leader of a tribe, he would be recognized by his brothers as lord, and they would bow down to him. This promise captures the word that Rebekah had received from God ...
725. Jacob Meets Esau
Genesis 33:1-20
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John E. Hartley
... therefore could take these gifts without any sense of depriving his brother. More significantly, in accepting the gifts Esau would affirm that God’s blessing was on his brother’s life and that God had intended the blessing of Abraham to go with Jacob. Esau yielded to Jacob’s pressure and accepted the gifts. In this act Esau humbled himself, for he honored Jacob’s desire and relinquished any claims he had against Jacob. This gift sealed a bond between them, a bond that had not existed in their youth ...
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