From Nave’s Topical Bible
Shoe
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.
- 15Passages listed
- 11Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Removed while on holy groundExodus 3:5Joshua 5:15Acts 7:33
- Taken off at a time of mourningEzekiel 24:17
- Of the people of Israel did not get oldDeuteronomy 29:5
- Loosened as a sign of refusal to observe the levirate marriageDeuteronomy 25:9Ruth 4:7Ruth 4:8
- Poor people sold for a pair ofAmos 2:6Amos 8:6
- Made of badgers' (dugong, porpoise?) skinsEzekiel 16:10
- Thong ofGenesis 14:23Isaiah 5:27Mark 1:7
- Loosing of, a humble serviceLuke 3:16
The passages, in Bible order (15)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 15 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 14:23
that I will not accept even a thread, or a strap of a sandal, or anything that belongs to you, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
Commentary on Genesis 14:232 voices
It is characteristic of the perfect mind not to take for itself any earthly thing, anything prone to bodily seduction. This is why Abraham says, "I will take nothing of what is yours." He avoids intemperance like the plague. He flees from sensual bodily temptations as from filth. He rejects worldly pleasures to seek those that are above the world. This is what it means to raise one's hands to the Lord. The hand that does good is the virtue of the soul.
Ambrose of Milan· On Abraham, 397Patristic
But the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the persons, and take the goods for yourself." But he replied to him, "I raise my hand to the Lord, God most high, possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take a thread …
Bede· Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron), 735Patristic
- Exodus 3:5
“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
Commentary on Exodus 3:51 voice
Pass by like Moses, that you may see the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob and that you may see a great vision. This is a great vision, but if you wish to see it, remove the sandals from your feet, remove every bond of iniquity, remove the bonds of the world, leave behind the sandals which are earthly. Likewise Jesus sent the apostles without sandals, without money, gold and silver, so that they would not carry earthly things with them.
Ambrose of Milan· FLIGHT FROM THE WORLD 5.25, 397Patristic
- Deuteronomy 25:9
his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”
Commentary on Deuteronomy 25:91 voice
Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 29:5
For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 29:51 voice
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness,.... From the time of their coming out of Egypt unto that day, which though not quite complete, is given as a round number.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Joshua 5:15
The Commander of the LORD’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.
Commentary on Joshua 5:151 voice
Now, grasp the mystical meaning of Holy Writ. As long as we are walking through the wilderness, it is necessary that we wear sandals to cover and protect our feet, but when we shall have entered the Land of Promise, we shall hear with Jesus [Joshua], the son of Nave [Nun]: "Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place upon which you are standing is holy."
Jerome· HOMILY ON THE EXODUS 91, 420Patristic
- Ruth 4:7
Now in former times in Israel, concerning the redemption or exchange of property, to make any matter legally binding a man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party, and this was a confirmation in Israel.
Commentary on Ruth 4:71 voice
For, by the law, when a man died, the marriage bond with his wife was passed on to his brother or other male next of kin, in order that the seed of the brother or next of kin might renew the life of the house. And so it was that Ruth, though she was foreign-born, had possessed a husband of the Jewish people who had left a kinsman of near relation.
Ambrose of Milan· Exposition of the Christian Faith 3.69-70, 397Patristic
- Ruth 4:8
So the kinsman-redeemer removed his sandal and said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.”
Commentary on Ruth 4:82 voices
And therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, buy it for me,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
For, by the law, when a man died, the marriage bond with his wife was passed on to his brother or other male next of kin, in order that the seed of the brother or next of kin might renew the life of the house. And so it was that Ruth, though she was foreign-born, had possessed a husband of the Jewish people who had left a kinsman of near relation.
Ambrose of Milan· Exposition of the Christian Faith 3.69-70, 397Patristic
- Isaiah 5:27
None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
Commentary on Isaiah 5:271 voice
And he will not be weary or faint. He will not slumber or sleep, nor will his waist belt be loosened or his sandal strap be broken. The divine word describes the speed of the approaching army, which came not by its own will, but by the will of the Lord; indeed, it was drawn in and provoked by its hiss, which did not fail or tire from such a journey, and did not allow sleep to its eyes, and whose sandals were not worn out.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
- Ezekiel 16:10
I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
Commentary on Ezekiel 16:101 voice
(Verse 10.) And you clothed yourself in various colors. LXX: And you adorned yourself with various garments: engaging in the rituals of the law, you abandoned idols. These are the various garments with which Joseph was clothed: and his brothers could not sell him unless they first stripped him of his varied tunic (Gen. XXXVII). And it is said of the bride in the forty-fourth psalm: The queen stood at your right hand in a robe adorned with gold, surrounded by variety (Ps. XLIV, 10).
Jerome· Commentary on Ezekiel, 420Patristic
- Ezekiel 24:17
Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.”
Commentary on Ezekiel 24:172 voices
Forbear to cry,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
(Verse 15 and following) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a plague, and you shall not mourn or weep, neither shall your tears flow. Sigh in silence, you shall not mourn for the dead. Your turban shall be on your head, and your sandals shall be on your feet; you shall not cover your lips nor eat the bread of mourners. Therefore, I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening.
Jerome· Commentary on Ezekiel, 420Patristic
- Amos 2:6
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
Commentary on Amos 2:61 voice
(Vers. 6 seqq.) Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke my word: Because they sell the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of sandals. They trample the heads of the weak into the dust of the earth, and they force the lowly off the path. Son and father go to the same prostitute, profaning my holy name. Upon garments taken in pledge, they recline beside every altar; and the wine of those who have been fined, they drink in the house of their God.
Jerome· Commentary on Amos, 420Patristic
- Amos 8:6
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
Commentary on Amos 8:62 voices
That we may buy the poor for silver,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
(V. 4, seqq.) Listen to this, you who crush the poor and make the needy of the earth fail, saying: When the month passes, we will sell our goods, and on the Sabbath, we will open the granary to decrease the measure and increase the weight; we will use deceitful scales to possess the poor in silver and sell the refuse of wheat.
Jerome· Commentary on Amos, 420Patristic
- Mark 1:7
And he began to proclaim: “After me will come One more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.
Commentary on Mark 1:71 voice
"One mightier than I is coming after me, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie." The meaning of the words: "He must increase, I must decrease," is that the gospel must increase, but I, the law, must decrease. John, that is, the law in John, was clothed, therefore, in the hair of a camel, for he could not wear a tunic of the lamb of whom it is said: "Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world;" and again: "He is led like a lamb to the slaughter."
Jerome· HOMILY 75, 420Patristic
- Luke 3:16
John answered all of them: “I baptize you with water, but One more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
Commentary on Luke 3:161 voice
By the words, Whose shoes I am not worthy to bear, he shows that the grace of preaching the Gospel was conferred upon the Apostles, who were shod for the Gospel. (Eph. 6:15.) He seems however to say it, because John frequently represented the Jewish people.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 397Patristic
- Acts 7:33
Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.