From Nave’s Topical Bible
Good News
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 2Passages listed
- 1Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerningProverbs 15:30Proverbs 25:25
The passages, in Bible order (2)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Proverbs 15:30
The light of the eyes cheers the heart, and good news nourishes the bones.
Commentary on Proverbs 15:302 voices
The light of the eyes rejoices the soul, etc. It rightly delights the human mind, when it recognizes, by the Lord's revelation, that it has perceived the light of heavenly mysteries. Which another translation more clearly says, The eye seeing good things delights the heart, …
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735Patristic
53:1), maketh . . . fat--or, "gives prosperity" (Pr 3:13-17; The last clause is illustrated by the first. (Compare Pr 10:17). reproof of life--which leads to life. abideth . . . wise--is numbered among them.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
- Proverbs 25:25
Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land.
Commentary on Proverbs 25:252 voices
The craving of wanderers for news from the home that they have left is as a consuming thirst, the news that quenches it as a refreshing fountain.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
Just as "waters are pleasant to the thirsty soul," as Scripture says, so to the mind that loves instruction is the life-giving knowledge of the mysteries of our Savior. Let us, therefore, draw from the sacred springs the living and life-giving waters, even those that are rational and spiritual. Let us take our fill, and weary not in the drinking; for in these things more than enough is still for edification, and greediness is great praise.
Cyril of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 65, 444Patristic