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UYohane 8:51
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
If: John 3:15, John 3:16, John 5:24, John 6:50, John 11:25, John 11:26
keep: John 8:55, John 15:20
see: John 8:12, Psalms 89:48, Luke 2:26
Reciprocal: Psalms 49:9 - see Matthew 5:18 - verily Mark 9:1 - taste Luke 9:27 - taste John 1:51 - Verily John 3:36 - see John 5:26 - so hath John 8:18 - one John 8:58 - Verily John 14:6 - the life Acts 13:35 - to see 1 Corinthians 2:14 - they Hebrews 11:5 - translated
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Verily, verily, I say unto you,.... This is truth, and may be depended upon, as coming from the "Amen", and faithful witness:
if a man keep my saying; or doctrine, receives the Gospel in the love of it, obeys it from his heart, and cordially embraces and firmly believes it; and retains and holds it fast, having a spiritual and comfortable experience of the doctrines of Christ, and yielding a cheerful and ready obedience to his commands and ordinances, in faith and love:
he shall never see death; the second death, eternal death, which is an everlasting separation of a man, body and soul, from God: this death shall have no power on such a person, he shall never be hurt by it; and though he dies a corporeal death, that shall not be a curse, a penal evil to him; nor shall he always lie under the power of it, but shall rise again, and live in soul and body, for ever with the Lord: seeing and tasting death, as in John 8:52, are Hebraisms expressive of dying.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If a man keep my saying - If he believes on me and obeys my commandments.
He shall never see death - To see death, or to taste of death, is the same as to die, Luke 2:26; Matthew 16:28; Mark 9:1. The sense of this passage is, “He shall obtain eternal life, or he shall be raised up to that life where there shall be no death.” See John 6:49-50; John 3:36; John 5:24; John 11:25-26.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 51. Shall never see death. — As Moses promised a long life, with abundance of temporal blessings, to those who should keep his statutes and ordinances, so he who keeps my doctrine shall not only have a long life, but shall never see death-he shall never come under the power of the death of the soul, but shall live eternally with me in glory.
