From Nave’s Topical Bible
Nazarite
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.
- 12Passages listed
- 8Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Law concerningNumbers 6:1–21Judges 13:5
- Character ofLamentations 4:7Amos 2:11Amos 2:12
- INSTANCES OF .SamsonJudges 13:5Judges 13:7Judges 16:17
- Samuel1 Samuel 1:11
- RechabitesJeremiah 35
- John the BaptistMatthew 11:18Luke 1:15Luke 7:33
The passages, in Bible order (12)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 12 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Numbers 6:1–21
And the LORD said to Moses,
Commentary on Numbers 6:1–212 voices
The law of the Nazarite is appropriately added to other enactments which concern the sanctity of the holy nation. That sanctity found its highest expression in the Nazarite vow, which was the voluntary adoption for a time of obligations to high and strict modes of self-dedication resembling, and indeed in some particulars exceeding, those under which the priests were placed. The present enactments do not institute a new kind of observance, but only regulate one already familiar to the Israelites Num 6:2. Num 6:2 A Nazarite - Strictly, Nazirite.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
And the Lord spake unto Moses,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 13:5
For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
Commentary on Judges 13:52 voices
After the spirit of the Hebrews had been so subdued by the pressure of a long subjection that no one dared with a manly spirit to rouse them to liberty, Samson, fore-ordained by the Divine oracle, was raised up to them. A great man he was, not one of the multitude, but first among the few, and beyond controversy far excelling all in bodily strength.
Ambrose of Milan· Letter 19.10-11, 397Patristic
For, lo, thou shalt conceive and bear a son,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 13:7
But he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”
Commentary on Judges 13:72 voices
But he said unto me, behold, thou shalt conceive and bear a son,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
After the spirit of the Hebrews had been so subdued by the pressure of a long subjection that no one dared with a manly spirit to rouse them to liberty, Samson, fore-ordained by the Divine oracle, was raised up to them. A great man he was, not one of the multitude, but first among the few, and beyond controversy far excelling all in bodily strength.
Ambrose of Milan· Letter 19.10-11, 397Patristic
- Judges 16:17
Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”
Commentary on Judges 16:172 voices
But last of all the wanton woman complaining that she had been so often deceived, and grieving that her lover deemed her unworthy to be entrusted with his secret, and that under her pretext of succour her treacherous purpose was suspected, won his confidence by her tears. By this means, and because also it was ordained that this man of hitherto unshaken fortitude should fall into calamity, Samson was touched and opened to her his heart.
Ambrose of Milan· Letter 19, 397Patristic
It is said that Samson, according to the instruction of the Angel, did not permit a razor to come upon his head; but his hair grew, and he became the strongest of men. It was a wondrous thing that with his hair he was strong, …
Bonaventure· Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 5, 1257Patristic
- 1 Samuel 1:11
And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head.”
Commentary on 1 Samuel 1:111 voice
23. What does it mean that Anna requests a male child from the Lord, except that those whom holy Church desires to bring forth by preaching, she longs for them to be strong in Evangelical perfection? For in comparison with Evangelical perfection, those works of the Law which seemed strong were not strong, but weak. For there it was commanded: "You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy" (Lev. 19:18). But in the Gospel the Lord commands, saying: "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you" (Matt. 5:44).
Gregory the Dialogist· Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 1, Chapter 1, 604Patristic
- Jeremiah 35:1
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:
Commentary on Jeremiah 35:11 voice
[Daniel 7:1] "In the first year of Belshazzar, King of Babylon, Daniel beheld a dream. And a vision of his head upon his bed. And when he wrote the dream down, he comprehended it in a few words and gave a brief summary of it, saying..." This section which we now undertake to explain, and also the subsequent section which we are going to discuss, is historically prior to the two previous sections.
Jerome· St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER SEVEN, 420Patristic
- Lamentations 4:7
Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.
Commentary on Lamentations 4:71 voice
Take my advice, my friend, and be slow to do evil but swift to your salvation; for readiness to evil and tardiness to good are equally bad. If you are invited to a revel, be not swift to go; if to apostasy, leap away; if a company of evildoers say to you, "Come with us, share our blood guiltiness, let us hide in the earth a righteous person unjustly," do not lend them even your ears.
Gregory of Nazianzus· ON HOLY BAPTISM, ORATION 40:25, 390Patristic
- Amos 2:11
I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD.
Commentary on Amos 2:112 voices
(Verse 9 and following) But I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of cedar trees, and he was strong like an oak tree. And I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from below. I am the one who brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you into the wilderness for forty years, so that you could possess the land of the Amorite. And I raised up prophets from among your sons and Nazirites from among your young men.
Jerome· Commentary on Amos, 420Patristic
And I raised up of your sons for prophets,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Amos 2:12
“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
Commentary on Amos 2:121 voice
(Verse 12.) Is it not so, sons of Israel, says the Lord, that you offered wine to the Nazarenes and sent commands to the prophets, saying: Do not prophesy. Likewise, the Septuagint. I granted you so many benefits, that I would kill your enemies and give their land to you, and I would choose prophets and Nazarenes from your sons and young men, and I would consecrate them to my worship. Can you say that I have not done these things, and that I have denied my mercy towards you, by which you live?
Jerome· Commentary on Amos, 420Patristic
- Matthew 11:18
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’
Commentary on Matthew 11:181 voice
If fasting then pleases you, why were you not satisfied with John? If fulness, why not with the Son of man? Yet one of these ye said had a dæmon, the other ye called a gluttonous man, and drunkard.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
- Luke 1:15
for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
Commentary on Luke 1:151 voice
And then, speaking of John, he thus says: "For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Elias, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord." For whom, then, did he prepare the people, and in the sight of what Lord was he made great?
Irenaeus· Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter 10), Section 1, 202Patristic
- Luke 7:33
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
Commentary on Luke 7:331 voice
They take upon themselves to slander a man worthy of all admiration. They say that he who mortifies the law of sin which is in his members hath a devil.
Cyril of Alexandria· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 444Patristic