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Ye despisers (ο καταφρονητα). Not in the Hebrew, but in the LXX. It is pertinent for Paul's purpose.
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Beware therefore. Avoid what is threatened. It will come on some; and Paul exhorted his hearers to beware lest it come on them. I…

Behold, ye despisers.—The quotation is from the LXX version, the Hebrew text stating, “Behold, ye among the heathen.”…

For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: But he,…

Paul now uses the simple appellation “Men, brothers” (cf. vv.16, 26) as he applies his message and calls the people to repentance. Through Jesus, P…

And yet he does not recite word for word the words of Habakkuk, which are as follows: “Behold, you Gentiles, and see and wonder, and be astonis…

Behold, you despisers
In (Habakkuk 1:5) from where these words are taken: we render it with others, "beh…

Let all that hear the gospel of Christ, know these two things:
That through this Man, who died and rose again, the forgivene of sin…
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A.T. Robertson
A.T.Robertson