From Nave’s Topical Bible
Paradox
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.
- 16Passages listed
- 10Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
The passages, in Bible order (16)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Proverbs 13:7
One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
Commentary on Proverbs 13:71 voice
And in these allusions and inconveniences all that are at all weak are sure to be entangled, as while they are even doubtful of their own salvation, and themselves stand in need of the teaching and instruction of others, they are incited by the devil's tricks to convert and guide others, and as, even if they succeed in gaining any advantage from the conversion of some, they waste by their impatience and rude manners whatever they have gained.
John Cassian· CONFERENCE 24:13, 435Patristic
- Matthew 10:39
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
Commentary on Matthew 10:392 voices
Here Jesus calls the departure of life from the body the "loss of life," speaking figuratively. "He who finds his life" refers to anyone who too highly values transitory existence and as it were sells it at a profit. He will face the hands of death when he is sent to unremittable punishment and death.
Cyril of Alexandria· FRAGMENT 128.34, 444Patristic
(Verse 38, 39.) And whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. In another Gospel it is written: Whoever does not take up their cross daily. Let us not think that the ardor of faith can be enough once and for all, the cross must always be carried, so that we may always teach ourselves to love Christ.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
- Matthew 16:25
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
Commentary on Matthew 16:252 voices
This may be understood in two ways. First thus; if any lover of this present life spares his life, fearing to die, and supposing that his life is ended with this death; he seeking in this way to save his life, shall lose it, estranging it from life eternal. But if any, despising the present life, shall contend for the truth unto death, he shall lose his life as far as this present life is concerned, but forasmuch as he loses it for Christ, he shall the more save it for life eternal.
Origen of Alexandria· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 253Patristic
For whosoever will save his life,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- Mark 8:35
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.
Commentary on Mark 8:351 voice
For he that will save his life shall lose it; and he that shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save it. Thus it is said to the faithful: He that will save his life shall lose it; and he that shall lose his life for my sake shall save it. As if it were said to the farmer: If you keep your grain, you lose it; if you sow it, you renew it. For who does not know that when grain is cast as seed, it perishes from sight, it fails in the earth?
Gregory the Dialogist· Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 32, 604Patristic
- Luke 17:33
Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
Commentary on Luke 17:332 voices
But the way in which a man loses his life that he may save it, and how he who imagines that he is saving loses it, Paul clearly shows, where he says of the saints, "They that are Jesus Christ's have crucified the flesh, with its affections and lusts." For those who have really become true followers of Christ our common Saviour, crucify their flesh, and put it to death, by being constantly engaged in labours and struggles unto piety, and by mortifying its natural desire.
Cyril of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 118, 444Patristic
Whosoever shall seek to save his life,.... By fleeing to some strong hold, or by continuing in the metropolis, and strongest city in the nation, Jerusalem: shall lose it: there he will be in the greatest danger: and whosoever shall lose his life; or expose it to danger, by fleeing to the mountains, or going to Pella, a small town beyond Jordan, of no strength, and where there might be thought no security; shall preserve it; he shall be safe; See Gill on Mat 16:25.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- John 12:25
Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
Commentary on John 12:251 voice
You not only ought not to be offended at the thought of My suffering, or to disbelieve the words I said, but it is even right that you should be prepared in anticipation of it; for he that thinks fit to be careful over his life here, and is not willing to expose it to dangers for My sake, loses it in the time to come. But he who exposes it to dangers in this present world is laying up in store for it great rewards.
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 8, 444Patristic
- 1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 3:181 voice
Philosophers also profess that they pursue this virtue; but in their case the patience is as false as their wisdom also is. For whence can he be either wise or patient, who has neither known the wisdom nor the patience of God? since He Himself warns us, and says of those who seem to themselves to be wise in this world, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will reprove the understanding of the prudent."
Cyprian· Treatise IX. On the Advantage of Patience, 258Patristic
- 2 Corinthians 6:4
Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;
Commentary on 2 Corinthians 6:41 voice
This is the grace of the Holy Spirit, possessing the entire soul and filling the dwelling place with gladness and power, making sweet for the soul the sufferings of the Lord, and taking away the perception of the present pain because of the hope of the things to come.
Gregory of Nyssa· ON THE CHRISTIAN MODE OF LIFE, 395Patristic
- 2 Corinthians 6:8–10
through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;
Commentary on 2 Corinthians 6:8–101 voice
Do not angle for compliments, lest while you win the popular applause, you dishonor God. "If I yet pleased men," says the apostle, "I should not be the servant of Christ." He ceased to please men when he became Christ's servant. Christ's soldier marches on through good report and evil report, the one on the right hand and the other on the left. No praise elates him, no reproaches crush him. He is not puffed up by riches nor depressed by poverty. Joy and sorrow he alike despises.
Jerome· Letter 52, 420Patristic
- 2 Corinthians 12:4
was caught up to Paradise. The things he heard were too sacred for words, things that man is not permitted to tell.
Commentary on 2 Corinthians 12:41 voice
Wherefore also the elders who were disciples of the apostles tell us that those who were translated were transferred to that place (for paradise has been prepared for righteous men, such as have the Spirit; in which place also Paul the apostle, when he was caught up, heard words which are unspeakable as regards us in our present condition), and that there shall they who have been translated remain until the consummation [of all things], as a prelude to immortality.
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book V, 202Patristic
- 2 Corinthians 12:10
That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Commentary on 2 Corinthians 12:101 voice
Not in the amount of money, not in the pride of power, not in the height of glory is victory gained, but the Lord freely gives his help to those who seek him through excessive affliction. Such was Paul, who made his afflictions his boast. Therefore he was able to say, "When I am weak, then I am strong." … Do you see where affliction leads you? To hope that does not disappoint..
Basil of Caesarea· HOMILY 20 ON PSALM 59, 379Patristic
- 2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
Commentary on 2 Corinthians 12:112 voices
Again he justifies himself for boasting. Earlier he said, "receive me, even as foolish" and "as if in foolishness," but now he calls himself foolish already without the particle "as"; for having done what he desired, he boldly subjects himself to such abasement, sufficiently teaching …
Theophylact of Ohrid· Commentary on 2 Corinthians, 1107Patristic
I am become a fool in glorying,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- Ephesians 3:17–19
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Commentary on Ephesians 3:17–191 voice
Thus when, writing to the Ephesians, he spoke of "Christ dwelling in their inner man," he meant, no doubt, that the Lord ought to be admitted into their senses. He then added, "in your hearts by faith, rooted and grounded in love,"-making "faith" and "love" not substantial parts, but only conceptions of the soul.
Tertullian· On the Resurrection of the Flesh, 220Patristic
- Philippians 3:7
But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
Commentary on Philippians 3:71 voice
But "those things which he had once accounted gain," and which he enumerates in the preceding verse-"trust in the flesh," the sign of "circumcision," his origin as "an Hebrew of the Hebrews," his descent from "the tribe of Benjamin," his dignity in the honours of the Pharisee -he now reckons to be only "loss" to himself; (in other words, ) it was not the God of the Jews, but their stupid obduracy, which he repudiates.
Tertullian· Against Marcion Book V, 220Patristic
- Revelation 21:18
The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.
Commentary on Revelation 21:182 voices
The city itself was pure gold, like clear glass. The Church is figured as gold, often adorned with golden candlesticks and bowls for the sake of wisdom's cultivation. Glass, however, refers to true faith, because what is seen on the outside is also inside, and …
Bede· Commentary on Revelation, 735Patristic
The city which he says is squared, he says also is resplendent with gold and precious stones, and has a sacred street, and a river through the midst of it, and the tree of life on either side, bearing twelve manner of fruits throughout the twelve months; and that the light of the sun is not there, because the Lamb is the light of it; and that its gates were of single pearls; and that there were three gates on each of the four sides, and that they could not be shut.
Victorinus of Pettau· Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John, 304Patristic
- Revelation 21:21
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate consisting of a single pearl. The main street of the city was pure gold, as clear as glass.
Commentary on Revelation 21:212 voices
And by the twelve gates, each one made of a single pearl, may be understood the twelve principal ideas to which the others may then be retraced, and according to which the others are ruled and directed: and these twelve principal ideas are bright, vivifying, …
Bonaventure· Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 11, 1257Patristic
The city which he says is squared, he says also is resplendent with gold and precious stones, and has a sacred street, and a river through the midst of it, and the tree of life on either side, bearing twelve manner of fruits throughout the twelve months; and that the light of the sun is not there, because the Lamb is the light of it; and that its gates were of single pearls; and that there were three gates on each of the four sides, and that they could not be shut.
Victorinus of Pettau· Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John, 304Patristic