From Nave’s Topical Bible
Opportunity
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.
- 14Passages listed
- 6Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- THE MEASURE OF RESPONSIBILITYProverbs 1:24–33Jeremiah 8:20Ezekiel 3:19Ezekiel 33:1–17Hosea 5:6Matthew 10:14Matthew 10:15Matthew 11:20–24Matthew 23:34–38Matthew 25:1–46Luke 12:47Luke 13:25–28Luke 14:16–24Luke 19:12–27
- See Judgment, According to Opportunity
- See Responsibility
The passages, in Bible order (14)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 14 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Proverbs 1:24–33
Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
Commentary on Proverbs 1:24–331 voice
How then is the heaven stretched forth? Wisdom stretches it forth. For it is clear that wisdom stretches it forth in the text: "Since I stretched forth words and you did not pay attention." He speaks of words being stretched forth; in this way the heaven is stretched forth.
Origen of Alexandria· HOMILIES ON JEREMIAH 8:2.3, 253Patristic
- Jeremiah 8:20
“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”
Commentary on Jeremiah 8:201 voice
(Verse 20.) The harvest has passed, the summer is ended: and we are not saved. Once again the people speak, who were besieged in Jerusalem for a long time, because the times have changed, and the cycle of years has come to an end, and all their hope has been in vain, and has passed away.
Jerome· Commentary on Jeremiah, 420Patristic
- Ezekiel 3:19
But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.
Commentary on Ezekiel 3:192 voices
For then your subject dies without you, when in the cause of death he has endured you as one who does not speak against it. For you are joined to the death which you do not oppose. And it should be noted what things ought to be preached by the watchman, namely faith and works. For he says: "But if you have announced to the wicked man, and he has not been converted from his wickedness and from his wicked way." For wickedness pertains to unbelief, but the wicked way pertains to depraved action.
Gregory the Dialogist· Homilies on Ezekiel, Book 1, Homily 11, 604Patristic
(Verse 18, 19.) If I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul. There are two wicked or iniquitous persons, as the Septuagint has translated.
Jerome· Commentary on Ezekiel, 420Patristic
- Ezekiel 33:1–17
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Commentary on Ezekiel 33:1–171 voice
(Chapter XXXIII, Verse 1 and following) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, speak to the children of your people and say to them: When I bring a sword upon a land and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman, and he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people, then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
Jerome· Commentary on Ezekiel, 420Patristic
- Hosea 5:6
They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.
Commentary on Hosea 5:61 voice
"In their flocks and herds they will go to seek the Lord, but they will not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them. They have transgressed against the Lord, for they have produced illegitimate children. Now the month and its parts will devour them." LXX: "When they go with sheep and calves seeking the Lord, but shall not find him, he hath withdrawn himself from them. Because they have forsaken the Lord, and have brought up strange children, their rust shall devour them and their portions."
Jerome· Commentary on Hosea 5:6-7, 420Patristic
- Matthew 10:14
And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.
Commentary on Matthew 10:141 voice
(Verse 14.) And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. The dust is shaken off the feet as a testimony of their labor, that they have entered the city and the apostolic preaching has reached them. Whether the dust is shaken off so that they receive nothing from them, not even necessary food, those who have rejected the Gospel.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
- Matthew 10:15
Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
Commentary on Matthew 10:151 voice
Because to the men of Sodom and Gomorrah no man had ever preached; but this city had been preached to and had rejected the Gospel. But if it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom than for that city, hence we may learn that there is difference of degree in the punishment of sinners.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
- Matthew 11:20–24
Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles had been performed, because they did not repent.
Commentary on Matthew 11:20–241 voice
His upbraiding of the towns of Corozaim, Bethsaida, and Capharnaum, is set forth in this chapter, because He therefore upbraided them, because after He had such mighty works and wonders in them they had not done penitence. Whence He adds, Wo for thee, Corozaim! wo for thee, Bethsaida!
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
- Matthew 23:34–38
Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.
Commentary on Matthew 23:34–381 voice
(Verse 34.) Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town. And so upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
- Matthew 25:1–46
“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Commentary on Matthew 25:1–461 voice
This parable of the ten foolish and the ten wise virgins, some interpret literally of virgins, of whom there are according to the Apostle some who are virgins both in body and in thought, (1 Cor. 7.) others who have preserved indeed their bodies virgin, but have not the other deeds of virgins, or have only been preserved by the guardianship of parents, but have wedded in their hearts. But from what has gone before, I think the meaning to be different, and that the parable has reference not to virgins only, but to the whole human race.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
- Luke 12:47
That servant who knows his master’s will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows.
- Luke 13:25–28
After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’
- Luke 14:16–24
But Jesus replied, “A certain man prepared a great banquet and invited many guests.
Commentary on Luke 14:16–241 voice
We understand the man to be God the Father. For similes represent the truth but are not the truth itself. The Creator of the universe and the Father of glory made a great supper, a festival for the whole world, in honor of Christ. In the last times of the world and at our world's setting, the Son rose for us. At this time, he suffered death for our sakes and gave us to eat his flesh, the bread from heaven that gives life to the world.
Cyril of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 104, 444Patristic
- Luke 19:12–27
So He said, “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to lay claim to his kingship and then return.
Commentary on Luke 19:12–271 voice
(in Esai. c. 13. 13.) Noble, not only in respect of His Godhead, but of His manhood, being sprung from the seed of David according to the flesh. He went into a far country, separated not so much by distance of place as by actual condition. For God Himself is nigh to every one of us, when our good works bind us to Him. And He is afar off, as often as by cleaving to destruction, we remove ourselves away from Him.
Basil of Caesarea· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 379Patristic