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Lucas 7:5
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
he loveth: 1 Kings 5:1, 2 Chronicles 2:11, 2 Chronicles 2:12, Galatians 5:6, 1 John 3:14, 1 John 5:1-3
and: 1 Chronicles 29:3-9, Ezra 7:27, Ezra 7:28, 1 John 3:18, 1 John 3:19
Reciprocal: Acts 10:2 - which Acts 10:22 - of good
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For he loveth our nation,.... The Jewish nation, which was Christ's nation, as well as theirs, he being a Jew; see John 18:35. This they mention as an argument to induce him to have a regard to the centurion, though he was a Gentile; since he was a friend of the Jews, and well affected and disposed to them, which was very rare: it was not common for the Gentiles to love the Jews, any more than the Jews the Gentiles; there was an hatred, yea, an enmity between them; but this man, very likely, was a proselyte to their religion, as the following instance seems to show:
and he hath built us a synagogue; at his own private charge, and by the assistance of his soldiers under him, whom he might employ in this work: sometimes a single person built a synagogue at his own expense, and gave it to the citizens; of which the Jews say, o
"if a man builds an house, and afterwards devotes it to a synagogue, it is as a synagogue.''
o Piske Harosh Megilia, c. 4. art. 1.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Luke 7:5. He loveth our nation — He is a warm friend to the Jews; and has given a full proof of his affection to them in building them a synagogue. This he had done at his own proper charges; having no doubt employed his own men in the work.
