Bible Commentaries

Genesis 9:5 — Verse Genesis 9:5. Surely your blood - will I require; at the hand of every beast — This is very obscure, but if taken literally it seems to be an awful warning against cruelty to the brute creation; and from it we may conclude that horse-racers, hare-hunters,

Proverbs 1:9 — Versículo Proverbios 1:9 . Un adorno de gracia para tu cabeza, y cadenas. Es decir, el respeto filial y la obediencia serán tan ornamentales para ti como las coronas, diademas y cadenas de oro y perlas son para otros. La dignidad política ha sido distinguida en muchas naciones

Ecclesiastes 3:9 — Versículo Eclesiastés 3:9 . ¿Qué beneficio tiene él? ¿Qué bien real, qué placer sólido se deriva de todos los trabajos del hombre? La necesidad lo empuja a la parte principal de sus preocupaciones y fatigas ; trabaja para poder comer y beber ; y come y bebe para ser preservado

Ecclesiastes 9:8 — Versículo Eclesiastés 9:8 . Que tus vestiduras sean siempre blancas. Los judíos usaban vestiduras blancas en ocasiones festivas, como emblemas de alegría e inocencia. Sé siempre puro y siempre feliz. Los habitantes de la India van todos vestidos de algodón blanco y limpio

Isaiah 14:9 — Versículo Isaías 14:9 . El infierno desde abajo se mueve para que te encuentres. Es decir, Nabucodonosor . " El (infierno) ha levantado de sus tronos a todos los reyes de la tierra; - los fantasmas (rephaim) de todos los poderosos , o machos cabríos , (עתודי attudey,) de

Isaiah 38:1 — CAPÍTULO XXXVIII Relato de la peligrosa enfermedad de Ezequías y su cura  milagrosa, 1-9. Tierno y hermoso canto de acción de gracias, en el que este  piadoso rey exhaló los sentimientos de un corazón agradecido cuando su vida fue, por así decirlo, restaurada. Esta oda puede  adaptarse a otros casos, y siempre será provechosa y agradable

Jeremiah 9:3 — Versículo Jeremias 9:3 . Doblan sus lenguas como su arco en busca de mentiras. Y sus mentiras son tales que quitan la vida tan completamente como la flecha más afilada disparada desde el arco mejor tenso. Los falsos profetas le dijeron al pueblo que no había desolación

Matthew 11:17 — from κοπτομαι, to strike, or beat the breasts with the hands, particularly in lamentation. So used, Nahum 2:7; Luke 18:13; Luke 23:48, and by the best Greek and Roman writers. There is an allusion here to those funeral lamentations explained Matthew 9:23.

Matthew 9:19 — Verse Matthew 9:19. Jesus arose, and followed him — Our blessed Lord could have acted as well at a distance as present; but he goes to the place, to teach his ministers not to spare either their steps or their pains when the salvation of a soul is in question.

Mark 6:44 — majority of the best MSS. and by the principal versions. It is wanting in several editions: Bengel, Wetstein, and Griesbach, leave it out of the text. It is omitted by some in the parallel place, Matthew 14:21, but it stands without any variation in Luke 9:14, and John 6:10. This miracle is mentioned by all the four evangelists. It is one of the most astonishing that Christ has wrought. It is a miracle which could not be counterfeited, and a full proof of the divinity of Christ.

Luke 19:2 — Verse Luke 19:2. Zaccheus — It is not unlikely that this person was a Jew by birth, see Luke 19:9; but because he had engaged in a business so infamous, in the eyes of the Jews, he was considered as a mere heathen, Luke 19:7.Chief among the publicans —

John 11:24 — our Lord who fully exemplified it by his own resurrection, yet the opinion was common, not only among God's people, but among all those who believed in the God of Israel. The Jewish writings after the captivity are full of this doctrine. See 2 Macc. 7:9, 14, 23, 36; 12:43; 14:46; Wisd. 5:1, 7, 17; 6:6, 7. See also Josephus and the Targums, passim.

John 18:6 — he chose to exert his might, seeing that the very breath of his mouth confounded, drove back, and struck them down to the earth. Thus by the blast of God they might have perished, and by the breath of his nostrils they might have been consumed: Job 4:9.

John 7:21 — Verse John 7:21. I have done one work — That of curing the impotent man, already referred to. See John 5:9.And ye all marvel. — or, ye all marvel because of this. Some have δια τουτο, in connection with θαυμαζετε, which the common pointing makes the beginning of the next verse, and which, in our common version, is translated therefore; but this word

Acts 22:17 — Verse Acts 22:17. When I was come again to Jerusalem — It is likely that he refers to the first journey to Jerusalem, about three years after his conversion, Acts 9:25-26, and Galatians 1:18.I was in a trance — This circumstance is not mentioned any where else, unless it be that to which himself refers in 2 Corinthians 12:2-4, when he conceived himself transported to the third heaven; and, if the case be

Acts 9:13 — Verse Acts 9:13. Lord, I have heard by many of this man — This was all done in a dream, else this sort of reasoning with his Maker would have been intolerable in Ananias. Saul had been a notorious persecutor; many could testify of his outrageous acts against

Romans 10:20 — found of them that sought me not; I put my salvation in the way of those (the Gentiles) who were not seeking for it, and knew nothing of it: thus, the Gentiles which followed not after righteousness have attained to the law of righteousness, Romans 9:30, and they have found that redemption which the Jews have rejected.

Hebrews 10:9 — Verse Hebrews 10:9. He taketh away the first — The offerings, sacrifices, burnt-offerings, and sacrifices for sin, which were prescribed by the law.That he may establish the second. — The offering of the body of Jesus once for all. It will make little odds

James 5:9 — Verse 9. Grudge not — μη στεναζετε. Groan not; grumble not; do not murmur through impatience; and let not any ill treatment which you receive, induce you to vent your feelings in imprecations against your oppressors. Leave all this in the hands of God.Lest

2 John 1:9 — Verse 2 John 1:9. Whosoever transgresseth — παραβαινων. He who passes over the sacred enclosure, or goes beyond the prescribed limits; and abideth not in the doctrine-does not remain within these holy limits, but indulges himself either in excesses of action or