1 Peter 1:18; 1 Timothy 2:6; Matthew 16:26; Matthew 20:28
None of them can bid any means redeem his brother - None of those who are rich. This verse might be literally rendered, “a brother cannot by rede...
XLIX. The Immortality of the Righteous. The poet takes a popular proverb for his theme. This proverb recurs as a refrain in Psalms 49:12 and Psa...
None . no man. Hebrew. 'ish. App-14. by any means redeem. Hebrew Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6). "redeeming will redeem". redeem . del...
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: Sone of them can by any means redeem his brother - Wealth canno...
They that trust in their wealth, &c.— Some translate it, Confident men boast themselves in their wealth, and in the multitude of their riches:...
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: -The godly has no cause for overwhelming fear because of t...
There is little to fix the date of this Ps. The writer moralises, in the fashion of the book of Proverbs, on the vanity of wealth and honour apart fr...
None of them can. — Brother is here used in the wide sense of Leviticus 19:17 ; Genesis 13:11 (where rendered “the one”). The sense is the same...
Psalms 49:1-20 THIS psalm touches the high-water mark of Old Testament faith in a future life; and in that respect, as well as in its application...
the Folly of Trusting in Riches Psalms 49:1-20 Here is a proclamation worthy of the hearing of all the world. The psalmist is listening to voic...
This is the song of a principle, and the psalmist commences by calling peoples of all castes and classes to give attention. It denies the power of ma...
These words are very plain, and speak a truth which every day's experience in the world proves. Every rich man that dies manifests a new testimony, t...
None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother ,.... That is, "with their substance", or "riches", as the Targum and Jarchi supply. Some, accord...
None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: Ver. 7. None of them can by any means redeem his brother ] A...
They , &c. The psalmist, having said that good men had no sufficient cause of fear on account of what they might suffer from ungodly men, now pr...
The Vanity of Worldly Riches; The End of the Wicked. 6 They that trus...
Redeem, to wit, from death, as appears from Psalms 49:9,10 &c.; neither from the first death, nor from the second, which he points at Psa...
The Helplessness Of The Rich In The Face Of Death ( Psalms 49:6-10 ). He now points out that the rich are helpless in the face of death. None can...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician, a psalm for the sons of Korah .” See Introduction to Psalms 42 . Both the author of the psa...
redeem ( See Scofield) - ( Isaiah 59:20 ). ( See Scofield) - ( Exodus 14:30 ).
Psalms 49:7 These words ought to teach us: (1) that we cannot save other people, however much we may wish to do so, and (2) that other people cann...
The chief musician here bids us not to fear the ungodly. However high they may be placed, they are but dying men, and when they die their hope shall...
Psalms 49:1 . Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world. The psalmist opens his song as a philosopher and a prophet, giv...
Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: both low and high, rich and poor, together. The inequalities of society Im...
EXPOSITION THIS is a didactic poem, and resembles in some respects Psalms 37:1-19 , and Psalms 73:1-19 . It deals with the same problem—the...
Of the Vanity of Earthly Goods. To the chief musician, for use in liturgical worship, a psalm for the sons of Korah, a hymn of instruction and con...
none of them, the subject being generalized to include all men, can by any means redeem his brother, deliver him from the fate which will strike hi...
Redeem — Neither from the first death, nor from the second. Brother — Whom he would do his utmost to preserve.
7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: