From Nave’s Topical Bible
Probation
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
- General scriptures concerningRomans 5:4
- Adam onGenesis 2:15–17Genesis 3:3
- AmoritesGenesis 15:16
- Solomon with 11:9-121 Kings 3:141 Kings 9:4–9
- Taught in parables of the talents and poundsMatthew 25:14–30Luke 19:12–27
- The fig treeLuke 13:6–9
- The embezzling stewardLuke 16:1–12
- Taught by PaulHebrews 6
- None after deathMatthew 12:32Matthew 25:10–13Matthew 26:24
- See Perseverance
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.
- Genesis 2:15–17
Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
Commentary on Genesis 2:15–171 voice
Note, now, the person who was taken and the land where he was formed. The virtue of God, therefore, took man and breathed into him, so that man's virtue will advance and increase. God set him apart in Paradise that you may know that man was taken up, that is to say, was breathed upon by the power of God. Note the fact that man was created outside Paradise, whereas woman was made within it. This teaches us that each person acquires grace by reason of virtue, not because of locality or of race.
Ambrose of Milan· On Paradise, 397Patristic
- Genesis 3:3
but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”
Commentary on Genesis 3:31 voice
The manner in which the devil proceeded in the temptation was of great cunning, because he proceeded by testing, impelling, and enticing. For he conducted his test through questioning, he impelled through assurance, and he enticed through promise. For first he questioned about the reason …
Bonaventure· Breviloquium, Part 3, Chapter 2, 1257Patristic
- Genesis 15:16
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
Commentary on Genesis 15:161 voice
(Verse 16) But in the fourth generation they will return here. There is no doubt that these will be the ones who are descended from Abraham. It is asked how it is written in Exodus: In the fifth generation the children of Israel went forth from the land of Egypt (Exodus 15:18). On this chapter, we have published a small volume.
Jerome· Hebrew Questions on Genesis, 420Patristic
- 1 Kings 3:14
So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”
Commentary on 1 Kings 3:141 voice
And if thou wilt walk in my ways,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 9:4–9
And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,
Commentary on 1 Kings 9:4–91 voice
And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness..... Who, though guilty of many sins and failings in life, yet was sincere and upright in the worship of God, never apostatized from it, or fell into idolatry, which is what is chiefly respected: to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments; observe all the laws of God, moral, ceremonial, and judicial.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Matthew 12:32
Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the one to come.
Commentary on Matthew 12:322 voices
Or the passage may be thus understood; Whoso speaks a word against the Son of Man, as stumbling at My flesh, and thinking of Me as no more than man, such opinion and blasphemy though it is not free from the sin of heresy, yet finds pardon because of the little worth of the body.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
(Verse 32.) And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age nor in the age to come. And how is it that some of our bishops and priests, after blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, are reinstated in their positions, when the Savior says that all sins and blasphemies will be forgiven to men, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in the present time or in the future?
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
- Matthew 25:10–13
But while they were on their way to buy it, the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.
Commentary on Matthew 25:10–131 voice
But because the season for buying was now past, and the day of judgment was coming on, so that there was no room for penitence, they must not now lay up new works, but give an account of the old. After the day of judgment, there is no more opportunity for good works, or for righteousness, and therefore it follows, And the door was shut.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
- Matthew 25:14–30
For it is just like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted them with his possessions.
Commentary on Matthew 25:14–301 voice
(v. 14, 15) For just as a man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted to them his goods. And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, each according to his ability. Then he went away.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
- Matthew 26:24
The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
Commentary on Matthew 26:241 voice
Judas, not withheld by either the first or second warning, perseveres in his treachery; the Lord's long-suffering nourishes his audacity. Now then his punishment is foretold, that denunciations of wrath may correct where good feeling has no power. We are not to infer from this that man has a being before birth; for it cannot be well with any man till he has a being; it simply implies that it is better not to be, than to be in evil.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
- Luke 13:6–9
Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any.
Commentary on Luke 13:6–91 voice
Then, again, this truth was clearly shown forth by the parable of the fig-tree, of which the Lord says, "Behold, now these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, but I find none" (pointing onwards, by the prophets, to His advent, by whom He came from time to time, seeking the fruit of righteousness from them, which he did not find), and also by the circumstance that, for the reason already mentioned, the fig-tree should be hewn down.
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book IV, 202Patristic
- Luke 16:1–12
Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.
Commentary on Luke 16:1–121 voice
You proposed a little question about the Gospel of Luke (Chapter 16, verse 1 et seq.): Who is the steward of iniquity who is praised by the voice of the Lord? When I wanted to know the reason for this and from which source it came, I examined the volume of the Gospel, and I found among other things that, as the tax collectors and sinners approached the Saviour to hear him, the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, "Why does this one receive sinners and eat with them?" (Luke 15:2).
Jerome· Letter 121, Chapter 6, 420Patristic
- 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
- Romans 5:4
perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Commentary on Romans 5:41 voice
Divinely, therefore, Paul writes expressly, "Tribulation worketh, patience, and patience experience, and experience hope; and hope maketh not ashamed." For the patience is on account of the hope in the future. Now hope is synonymous with the recompense and restitution of hope; which maketh not ashamed, not being any more vilified.
Clement of Alexandria· The Stromata Book 4, 215Patristic
- Hebrews 6:1
Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,