From Nave’s Topical Bible
Spider
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.
- 3Passages listed
- 3Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Mentioned in one of Agur' s riddlesProverbs 30:28
- Web of, figurative of the hope of the hypocriteJob 8:14Isaiah 59:5
The passages, in Bible order (3)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 3 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Job 8:14
His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
Commentary on Job 8:142 voices
His own folly shall not satisfy him, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. For it is infinite folly to labour painfully, and pant after the breath of applause, to apply one's self to the heavenly precepts with hard toil, but to aim at the reward of an earthly kind of recompense. For that I may so express myself, he that in return for the good that he practises looks for the applause of his fellowcreatures, is carrying an article of great worth to be sold at a mean price.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book VIII, 604Patristic
Whose hope shall be cut off - Such persons, subdued by the strong habits of sin, hope on fruitlessly, till the last thread of the web of life is cut off from the beam; and then they find no more strength in their hope than is in the threads of the spiders web. Mr. Good renders, Thus shall their support rot away. The foundation on which they trust is rotten, and by and by the whole superstructure of their confidence shall tumble into ruin.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Proverbs 30:28
and the lizard can be caught in one’s hands, yet it is found in the palaces of kings.
Commentary on Proverbs 30:282 voices
"The spider, that supports itself upon its hands, and is easily caught, dwells in the strongholds of kings." That is, the thief with his hands extended (on the cross), rests on the cross of Christ and dwells n Paradise, the stronghold of the three Kings-Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Hippolytus of Rome· Fragments from Commentaries on Various Books of Scripture - On Proverbs, 235Patristic
The spider taketh hold with her hands,.... On the thread she spins, or on the flies and bees she catches in her web.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Isaiah 59:5
They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
Commentary on Isaiah 59:52 voices
(Verse 5, 6.) They conceived labor and gave birth to iniquity: they broke the eggs of vipers and wove spider webs. Whoever eats their eggs will die, and what is hatched will break out into a viper. Their webs will not be turned into clothing, nor will they be covered with their works. LXX: For they bring forth pain and generate iniquity. They broke the eggs of vipers and wove spider webs.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
They hatch cockatrice eggs, and weave the spider's web,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed