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How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningIsaiah 40:3Daniel 3:4
• Signified by the word "preacher,"1 Timothy 2:72 Timothy 1:112 Peter 2:5
• See R.v. (margin)

The passages, in Bible order (5)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 5 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Isaiah 40:3

   A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.

   ›Commentary on Isaiah 40:32 voices

   “God, indeed, never descends from any place, for he says, "I fill heaven and earth." But he seems to descend when the Word of God enters our hearts, as the prophet has said, "Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." We are to do this, so that, as he himself promised, he may come together with the Father and make his abode with us.

   “The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,....

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2. Daniel 3:4

   Then the herald loudly proclaimed, “O people of every nation and language, this is what you are commanded:

   ›Commentary on Daniel 3:42 voices

   “Then an herald cried aloud,....

   “Then a herald cried aloud - כרוזא קרא בחיל caroza kara bechayil, “a crier called with might.” A bedel cried mightili. - Old MS. Bible.

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3. 1 Timothy 2:7

   For this reason I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. I am telling the truth; I am not lying about anything.

   ›Commentary on 1 Timothy 2:72 voices

   “So, then, let us celebrate this heavenly joy, together with the saints of old who kept the same feast. Yes, they keep the feast with us, and they are examples to us of life in Christ. Not only were they commissioned to preach the gospel, but if we look back at their lives, we will see that they also lived it. St. Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "You, therefore, follow me." Let us follow him then, because that command has been passed down to us.

   “Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle,....

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4. 2 Timothy 1:11

   to which I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher.

   ›Commentary on 2 Timothy 1:112 voices

   “Whereunto I am appointed a preacher - Κηρυξ, a herald. See the notes at Mat 3:17. And an apostle - Sent immediately from God to man. A teacher - One whose business it is to instruct men, and particularly the Gentiles, to whom he was especially sent; to proclaim the doctrines of eternal life, the resurrection and final incorruptibility of the human body; and, in a word, the salvation both of the body and soul of man by Christ Jesus.

   “Above, he urged Timothy to preach Christ earnestly; here he sets himself before him as an example: first, he gives the example; second, he urges him to follow it, at hold the form; third, he states why he must follow this example, at you know …

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5. 2 Peter 2:5

   if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

   ›Commentary on 2 Peter 2:52 voices

   “And spared not the old, the antediluvian, world, but he preserved Noah the eighth person - that is, Noah and seven others, a preacher as well as practicer, of righteousness.

   “Noah also, uncircumcised-yes, and inobservant of the Sabbath-God freed from the deluge. For Enoch, too, most righteous man, uncircumcised and in-observant of the Sabbath, He translated from this world; who did not first taste death, in order that, being a candidate for eternal life, he might by this time show us that we also may, without the burden of the law of Moses, please God.

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