7 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve †them from this generation for ever. Thou shalt keep them; either, 1. The poor and needy, ver. 5, from the crafts and malice of this crooked and perverse generation of men, and for ever. Or, 2. Thy words or promises last mentioned, ver. 6. These thou…
Commentaries
Matthew Henry on Psalm 12:7
That God will secure his chosen remnant to himself, how bad soever the times are (v. 7): Thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. This intimates that, as long as the world stands, there will be a generation of proud and wicked men in it, more or less, who will threaten by their…
John Gill on Psalm 12:7
Ver. 7. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, &c.] Not the words before mentioned, as Aben Ezra explains it, for the affix is masculine and not feminine; not but God has wonderfully kept and preserved the sacred writings; and he keeps every word of promise which he has made; and the doctrines of the Gospel…
A.T. Robertson on 1 John 5:7
1 John 5:7 For there are three who bear witness (ὁτι τρεις εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυρουντες [hoti treis eisin hoi marturountes]). At this point the Latin Vulgate gives the words in the Textus Receptus, found in no Greek MS. save two late cursives (162 in the Vatican Library of the fifteenth century, 34 of the sixteenth…
B.H. Carroll on 1 John 5:7
To the integrity of this book, there is only one exception. The integrity of a book is established when it comes to us in the shape it was originally delivered, it has not lost anything out of it, and nothing has been added to it. Now, as to the integrity of this book, there is…
Albert Barnes Notes on 1 John 5:7
7. For there are three that bear record in heaven, &c. There are three that witness, or that bear witness—the same Greek word which, in ver. 8, is rendered bear witness—μαρτυροῦντες. There is no passage of the New Testament which has given rise to so much discussion in regard to its genuineness as this. The…
Adam Clarke on 1 John 5:7
Verse 7. There are three that bear record] The Father, who bears testimony to his Son; the Word or Λογος, Logos, who bears testimony to the Father; and the Holy Ghost, which bears testimony to the Father and the Son. And these three are one in essence, and agree in the one testimony, that Jesus…