From Nave’s Topical Bible
Wonderful
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.
- 2Passages listed
- 2Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- A name of the MessiahIsaiah 9:6
- SeeJudges 13:18
- See Jesus, Names of
The passages, in Bible order (2)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Judges 13:18
“Why do you ask my name,” said the angel of the LORD, “since it is beyond comprehension?”
Commentary on Judges 13:182 voices
Manoah said unto the angel . . ., What is thy name?--Manoah's request elicited the most unequivocal proofs of the divinity of his supernatural visitor--in his name "secret" (in the Margin, "wonderful"), and in the miraculous flame that betokened the acceptance of the sacrifice.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
And so, too, the word that was spoken to Manoah shows the fact that the Divinity is not comprehensible by the significance of His name, because, when Manoah asks to know His name, that, when the promise has come actually to pass, he may by name glorify his benefactor, He says to him, "Why askest thou this? It also is wonderful"; so that by this we learn that there is one name significant of the Divine Nature—the wonder, namely, that arises unspeakably in our hearts concerning It.
Gregory of Nyssa· AGAINST EUNOMIUS 8.1, 395Patristic
- Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Commentary on Isaiah 9:62 voices
Us - Unto us Jews, of whom Christ was born, and to whom he was primarily sent. A child - The Messiah by the consent of interpreters, not only Christian, but Jewish: for so the ancient Hebrew doctors understood the place, and particularly the Chaldee paraphrast; although the latter Jews, out of opposition to Christ, wrest it to Hezekiah.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
God's gratuitous gift, on which man had no claim (Joh 3:16; Ro 6:23). government . . . upon . . . shoulder--The ensign of office used to be worn on the shoulder, in token of sustaining the government (Isa 22:22). Here the government on Messiah's shoulder is in marked antithesis to the "yoke and staff" of the oppressor on Israel's "shoulder" (Isa 9:4).
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed