Barbarian

How Nave’s arranged it

• A foreignerActs 28:2–4Romans 1:141 Corinthians 14:11Colossians 3:11
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The passages, in Bible order (4)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Acts 28:2–4

   The islanders showed us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because it was raining and cold.

   ›Commentary on Acts 28:2–42 voices

   “In this these "barbarians" contrast favorably with many since bearing the Christian name. The lifelike style of the narrative here and in the following verses gives it a great charm.

   “The barbarous people - We have already seen that this island was peopled by the Phoenicians, or Carthaginians, as Bochart has proved, Phaleg. chap. xxvi.; and their ancient language was no doubt in use among them at that time, though mingled with some Greek and Latin terms; and this language must have been unintelligible to the Romans and the Greeks. With these, as well as with other nations, it was customary to call those βαρβαροι, barbarians, whose language they did not understand.

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2. Romans 1:14

   I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.

   ›Commentary on Romans 1:142 voices

   Now we must inquire how the Apostle is a debtor to Greeks and barbarians, to the wise and the unwise. For what had he received from them, whereby he should become their debtor? I think that he was made a debtor to the various nations for this reason, that he received through the grace of the Holy Spirit to speak in the tongues of all nations, as he himself also says: "I speak with tongues more than you all."

   “I am a debtor both to the Greeks, and to the barbarians - It has been remarked before that all the nations of the earth, themselves excepted, were termed barbarians by the Greeks. See the origin of the word barbarous in the note on Act 28:2 (note).

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3. 1 Corinthians 14:11

   If, then, I do not know the meaning of someone’s language, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me.

   ›Commentary on 1 Corinthians 14:112 voices

   “Therefore--seeing that none is without meaning. a barbarian--a foreigner (Ac 28:2). Not in the depreciatory sense as the term is now used, but one speaking a foreign language.

   “The meaning of the voice - Of the language that is uttered, or the sounds that are made. I shall be unto him ... - What I say will be unintelligible to him, and what he says will be unintelligible to me. We cannot understand one another any more than people can who speak different languages. A barbarian - See the note at Rom 1:14. The word means one who speaks a different, or a foreign language.

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4. Colossians 3:11

   Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.

   ›Commentary on Colossians 3:112 voices

   “Where - In which case, it matters not what a man is externally, whether Jew or gentile, circumcised, or uncircumcised, barbarian, void of all the advantages of education, yea, Scythian, of all barbarians most barbarous. But Christ is in all that are thus renewed, and is all things in them and to them.

   IN our two texts there are three "alls" rising, one out of the other—the first leading to the second and the second conducting to the third. You will notice at once that the first two are in the present tense. "Christ is all" and, "Christ is in all." The third one refers to the future—it is yet to be fulfilled. When the great consummation shall come, then shall God be, "all in all."

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