Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Who is he that will harm you - Is it possible that a man can be wretched who has God for his friend? "All the devices which the devil or wicked men work against such must be brought to naught, and by the providence of his goodness be dispersed."
If ye be followers, etc. - · If ye be imitators of the good One, i.e. of God. ̔ , the good One, is one of God' s prime epithets, see Matthew 19:17, and Satan is distinguished by the reverse, ̔ , the Evil one, Matthew 13:19 (note). Instead of , followers, or rather imitators, , zealous of what is good, is the reading of ABC, fifteen others, both the Syriac, Erpen' s Arabic, the Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian and Vulgate, with some of the fathers. This is a very probable reading, and Griesbach has placed it in the margin as a candidate for the place of that in the text.
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