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,
- Jeremiah 8:20
“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”
- 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 11Patristic
(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 EzekielPatristic
- 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They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.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 5:6-7Patristic
- 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.
- 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 AquinasPatristic
- 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 AquinasPatristic
- 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.
- 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 AquinasPatristic
- 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.’
Commentary on Luke 13:25–281 voice
But that they who cannot enter are regarded with wrath, He has shown by an obvious example, as follows, When once the master of the house has risen up, &c. as if when the master of the house who has called many to the banquet has entered in with his guests, and shut to the door, then shall come afterwards men knocking.
Cyril of Alexandria· Catena Aurea by AquinasPatristic
- 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 104Patristic
- 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 AquinasPatristic