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John Gill's Exposition on Mark 16:15
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And he said unto them, etc..] Not at the same time, and place, as before; not on the first day of the week, on which he rose from the dead, but forty days after, just upon his ascension to heaven; (see <411619>Mark 16:19); nor at Jerusalem, but in Galilee, where be appointed to meet his disciples, and did, when he gave them the following commission; (see <402816> Matthew 28:16,18,19). go ye into all the world: not only into Judea, and through all the cities of it, where they had been before confined; nor only into the Roman empire, which is sometimes so called, because great part of the world was under that government; but into every known and habitable part of the whole universe, to all the nations of the world under heaven: and it is to be observed, that this command is not enjoined on every apostle separately, as if each of them was to go into all the world, and travel over every part; but that one was to go one way, and another another way; every one had his line, or that part of the world marked out for him, whither he was to steer his course, and where he was to fulfil and finish his ministry: and besides, this commission not only included the Apostles, but reaches to all the ministers of the Gospel in succeeding ages, to the end of the world; and since this, one part of the world, which was not known, is now discovered; and the order includes that, as well as the then known parts of the world, and the Gospel accordingly has been sent into it. And preach the Gospel to every creature; not to inanimate and irrational creatures, as stocks and stones, the beasts of the field, etc.. nor to all rational creatures, as angels, good or bad; the former need not the preaching of the Gospel, and the latter are denied the blessing; but men, the offspring of fallen Adam, the objects of God's good will: these are styled “the creatures”, because the chief of God's creation on earth; and are often in the Jewish writings so called; take an instance or two: “R. Chuninn ben Dousa f284 used to say, all in whom, twyrbh, “the creatures” (i.e. men) have delight, God has delight; and in whomsoever “the creatures” (or men) have no, delight, God has no delight.” One of the seven qualifications of a member of the sanhedrim is, twyrbh tbha, “love of the creatures” f285, or love of men: so it is said f286, that “the holy blessed God, sits in the height of the world, and gives a portion of food, hyrb lkl, “to every creature”,” that is, to every man: and particularly the Gentiles, as distinguished from the Jews, are often intended by this phrase: thus “says f287 R. Judah, perhaps, twyrbh, “the creatures”, (i.e. the Gentiles,) knew the love with which the holy blessed God Ioved Israel, and roared like lions to pursue after them.” It is elsewhere f288 said, “all the prayers, twyrb l, “of the creatures” (the Heathens) are only concerning the earth; Lord, let the earth bring forth! Lord, let the earth be fruitful! All the prayers of the Israelites, are only for the house of the Lord; Lord, let the house of the sanctuary be built, etc..” ç And in this sense is the phrase used, in ( <450822>Romans 8:22,23 <510123>Colossians 1:23) (<610304>2 Peter 3:4). Now to these, Christ would have the Gospel preached, as well as to the Jews; even to all, without any distinction of people, Jews and Gentiles, Barbarians, Scythians, bond and free, male and female, rich and poor, greater or lesser sinners, even to all mankind; than which, nothing was more provoking to the Jews; who…
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