![]() ![]() Jeremiah bar Aba said, that in the generation in which the son of David shall come, there will be, "accusations against the disciples of the wise men".''Īnd one of their writers (u) thus interprets, Daniel 12:1, Christ is no accuser of men no, not of the worst of men see John 8:10 he came not into the world to bring charges against men and condemn them, but to save them to be an accuser is not agreeable to his characters of a Surety, a Saviour, an Advocate, and Judge: there were enough to accuse these persons of as their perverseness and stubbornness, in not coming to Christ for life their want of love to God their rejection of him, though he came in his Father's name their reception of another, that should come in his own name their taking honour one of another, and not seeking the true spiritual and eternal honour, which God gives but though he hints these things to them, he would not have them think that he accused them of them to the Father: the Jews have a notion, that when the Messiah comes, there will be accusations lodged against their doctors and wise men (t). The Syriac and Persic versions read by way of interrogation, "do ye think that I will?" &c. To God the Father, as the Ethiopic version reads. Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleDo not think that I will accuse you to the Father. The mighty words of Moses will not save you, unless you penetrate to their inner meaning." The predictions of Moses pointed out my coming. "The spirit of Moses is my vindication, the teaching of Moses is typical of mine, the institutions of Moses were symbolic of my coming and work. "This," says Lange, "is the last and mightiest stroke." "Elenchus maxime aptus ad conclusionem" (Bengel) i.e. 2 Corinthians 1:10) Moses himself, in that very Law which you are now making the ground of the rejection of my claims - Moses is your accuser Moses appears against you. He that (or, there is one that) accuseth you, Moses, on whom ye have set your hope (cf. These sad facts need not be, will not be, pressed against them, seeing that there is a primary accusation already laid. They were blind to the glory and deaf to the voice of the Father, and so would not come to him for life. They were snapping up worthless pretenders, and drinking the flattery of men rather than the approval of God. He has charged them already with having missed the deepest teaching of their own Scriptures, with fastening on the letter rather than on the spirit of the Divine Word that, though the prima article of t heir creed was the doctrine of "the only God," they had no love of God, no appreciation of God as the only Source of worthy glory, and therefore neither faith nor knowledge. Think not, he added, with one concluding and sweeping exposition of their relation to the old covenant and to himself - Think not, as ye might be disposed to do, that I will accuse you to ( before see Syriac k'dom) the Father (not referring to the judgment day, where he will appear as Judge, but now), as One in intimate and awful relation with the Father, or as One whose words have set up a standard which is much loftier or severer than that which you are prepared to allow. This is the thought of the following verses. Their accusation was their rejection of light and love in the past, and Moses was their accuser. There is no penalty so fearful as that of the soul which is awakened to its own sin, and cannot itself forgive that sin, and, therefore, cannot receive the forgiveness of the Infinite Love, which always forgives. The heart, then, needs no accuser, for it accuses itself it needs no sentence, for it condemns itself. Note on John 3:19.) And yet the very revelation of love and light condemns hatred and darkness. He is ever a judge, only because love must judge hatred, and light must judge darkness, by revealing it. Love cannot accuse He cannot be an accuser. He guards against this misinterpretation. He had come from the Father, and it might have seemed to follow from what He said, that He would accuse them to the Father. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(45) Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father.-His words were words of direct accusation, which must have cut to the very quick. ![]()
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