As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
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Gill's Exposition
As it is written, for thy sake we are killed,.... This passage is a citation out of Psa 44:22; and the meaning is, that for the sake of God, and his pure worship, Old Testament saints were frequently…
Barnes' Notes
As it is written - Psa 44:22. This passage the apostle quotes not as having originally reference to Christians, but as “aptly descriptive” of their condition. The condition of saints in the time of…
Adam Clarke
As it is written - And these are no more than we may naturally expect from the present constitution of the world, and the positive predictions of the prophet, Psa 44:22, who foresaw that a wicked…
The apostle closes this excellent discourse upon the privileges of believers with a holy triumph, in the name of all the saints. Having largely set forth the mystery of God's love to us in Christ, and…
Cambridge Bible
As it is written In Psalms 44 (LXX. 43):22. The Gr. is verbatim from the LXX. The quotation refers specially to the last previous word, "sword." By thus quoting the Psalm of the O. T. confessors and…
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