From Nave’s Topical Bible
Philosophy
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.
- 28Passages listed
- 8Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- The nature of thingsEcclesiastes 1Ecclesiastes 2Ecclesiastes 3Ecclesiastes 4Ecclesiastes 5Ecclesiastes 6Ecclesiastes 7
- A philosophical discussion about wisdomJob 28
- Philosophical inductions and deductions relating to God and His providenceJob 5:8–20Job 9Job 10:2–21Job 12:6–24Job 33:12–30Job 37
- Reveals the mysteries of providenceProverbs 25:2Romans 1:19Romans 1:20
- Is not sufficient for an adequate knowledge of God1 Corinthians 1:211 Corinthians 1:22
- Is not enough for salvation through the atonement of Jesus Christ1 Corinthians 2:6–10
- Employment of, was not Paul's method of preaching the gospel1 Corinthians 1:171 Corinthians 1:191 Corinthians 1:211 Corinthians 2:1–51 Corinthians 2:13
- Greek schools ofActs 17:18
- RabbinicalColossians 2:8Colossians 2:16–191 Timothy 6:20
- See Reason
- See [3055]GOD, Miscellaneous Scriptures Relating to
The passages, in Bible order (28)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Job 5:8–20
However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
Commentary on Job 5:8–201 voice
Wherefore I will entreat the Lord, and unto God would I make my address. Which doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number. As though he said in plain words, 'Him I petition, by Whom I know that these things are bestowed.' For if he imagined that he had them by himself, he would not need to make his prayer to God.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book VI, 604Patristic
- Job 9:1
Then Job answered:
Commentary on Job 9:11 voice
Blessed Job in his answer above in which he had responded to Eliphaz's words, seemed to have overlooked one argument which Eliphaz had proposed about the justice of God when he said, "Will man ever be justified in comparison with God?" (4:17) He rather seemed …
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on Job, 1274Patristic
- Job 10:2–21
I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
Commentary on Job 10:2–211 voice
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore Thou so judgest me. Whereas he declares himself a sinner 'in the bitterness of his soul,' what else does he say to God, but that he may not be condemned, in that the bitterness of his present penance does away with the pains of ensuing wrath? Now God judgeth man in this life in two ways, seeing that either by present ills He is already beginning to bring upon him the torments to come, or else by present scourges He does away with the torments to come.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book IX, 604Patristic
- Job 12:6–24
The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.
Commentary on Job 12:6–241 voice
The tabernacles of robbers have plenty, and they provoke God with boldness; when He hath given all into their hand. It is easy for a man, at the time, to despise riches, when he has them, but it is hard to hold them worthless, when he lacks them. Hence it is clearly shewn, how great a contempt of earthly things was lodged in the breast of blessed Job, who then declares that all is nought which the lost enjoy in plenty, at the time when he had lost every thing.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XI, 604Patristic
- Job 28:1
“Surely there is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.
Commentary on Job 28:11 voice
The silver hath the beginning of its veins, and to the gold there is a place, where they fine it. Thus the holy man after he had adequately filled up the punishments of the men of power that are lifted up in the world, again directs his words to the pride of heretics, who are lifted up in speech. In silver the power of speaking, in gold brightness of life or of wisdom is used to be denoted.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVIII, 604Patristic
- Job 33:12–30
Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.
Commentary on Job 33:12–301 voice
This is the thing then in which thou art not justified. I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. Blessed Job had indeed truly said, that he had been scourged without any fault. For he said of himself exactly what the Lord had said of him to the devil, Thou hast moved Me against him to afflict him without cause. But Eliu did not believe, that his fault doing nothing in it, he could be scourged as a matter of grace.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII, 604Patristic
- Job 37:1
“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
Commentary on Job 37:11 voice
At this my heart trembled, and was moved from its place. Because, while fear strikes the mind, it estranges it from itself, the Latin translations sometimes call an ecstasy fear, as is said by the Psalmist, I said in my fear, I am cast out from the sight of Thine eyes; [Ps. 31, 22] Where, namely, it could have been called not fear, but a transport ['excessus']. But fear is in that place used for transport, because the mind is estranged from itself in fear, as it is a transport.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVII, 604Patristic
- Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.
Commentary on Proverbs 25:21 voice
The glory of the Lord, to conceal the word, etc. The glory of the Lord is more to show himself in the flesh of his humanity than in his divinity to the eyes of mortals, and to confess himself rather through the miracles of his …
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735Patristic
- Ecclesiastes 1:1
These are the words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 1:11 voice
Solomon is here given the Greek name Ecclesiastes [Heb Qōhelet], for he gathers the assembly [qāhāl], that is, the church. But we can call him the Preacher because he speaks to the people and his word is directed not only to one person but to everyone.
Jerome· COMMENTARY ON ECCLESIASTES 1:1, 420Patristic
- Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 2:11 voice
"I said to myself: Come, I will experiment with joy and enjoy pleasure. That, too, turned out to be futile." After I detected that pain and labour were in the essence of wisdom and the accumulation of knowledge, and nothing else except vain and endless struggle, I felt joyful that I would overflow with excess, accrue riches, amass great wealth, and take temporary pleasures before I die. But even in this I saw my vanity, for past pleasures do not help the present, and do not fill up what is empty.
Jerome· Commentary on Ecclesiastes, 420Patristic
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 3:11 voice
"Everything has its season, and there is a time for everything under the heavens. "He has taught in the previous verses the doubtful and changeable state of humanity; now he wants to show that all things are opposed to each other in the world, and that nothing remains forever of those things, which are under the heavens and beyond time, since the other spiritual substances are contained neither in the heavens nor in time.
Jerome· Commentary on Ecclesiastes, 420Patristic
- Ecclesiastes 4:1
Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 4:11 voice
"And I returned and contemplated all the acts of oppression that are committed beneath the sun: Behold! Tears of the oppressed with none to comfort them, and their oppressors have the power - with none to comfort them. "After considering this I turned my eyes and attention to this, so that I saw the slanderers and those sustaining chicanery. And look on those who, oppressed unjustly by more powerful men, are not able to find a comforter for their tears. For this is only permitted in disasters and in protest at the ill will of the matter.
Jerome· Commentary on Ecclesiastes, 420Patristic
- Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 5:11 voice
"Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter a word before God; for God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few. For a dream comes from much concern, and foolish talk from many words." Several men think that this teaches here that we should not promise something too quickly in the presence of God, and without due consideration of our strengths we vow things, which we cannot then fulfil.
Jerome· Commentary on Ecclesiastes, 420Patristic
- Ecclesiastes 6:1
There is another evil I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily upon mankind:
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 6:11 voice
"There is an evil I have observed beneath the sun, and it is prevalent among mankind; a man to whom God has given riches, wealth and honour, and he lacks nothing that his heart could desire, yet God did not give him the power to enjoy it. This is futility and an evil disease. If a man begets an hundred children and lives many years - great being the days of his life - and his soul is not content with the good - and he even is deprived of burial; I say: the stillborn is better off than he.
Jerome· Commentary on Ecclesiastes, 420Patristic
- Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 7:11 voice
"How does it benefit man? For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life, which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
Jerome· Commentary on Ecclesiastes, 420Patristic
- Acts 17:18
Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.
Commentary on Acts 17:181 voice
"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ;" branding not all philosophy, but the Epicurean, which Paul mentions in the Acts of the Apostles, which abolishes providence and deifies pleasure, and whatever other philosophy honours the elements, but places not over them the efficient cause, nor apprehends the Creator.
Clement of Alexandria· The Stromata Book 1, 215Patristic