Bible Commentaries

Exodus 18:1 — 9-11. He offers burnt-offerings and sacrifices to Jehovah, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel feast with him, 12. The next day Jethro, observing how much Moses was fatigued by being obliged to sit as judge and hear causes from morning to evening, 13, inquires why he did so, 14. Moses answers, and shows that he is obliged to determine causes between man and man, and to teach them the statutes and laws of God, 15, 16. Jethro finds fault, and counsels him to appoint men who fear God, love truth, and

Exodus 21:2 — Verse Exodus 21:2. If thou buy a Hebrew servant — Calmet enumerates six different ways in which a Hebrew might lose his liberty:1. In extreme poverty they might sell their liberty. Leviticus 25:39: If thy brother be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee, c.2. A father might sell his children. If a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant see Exodus 21:7.3. Insolvent debtors became the slaves of their creditors. My husband is dead - and the creditor

Job 2:11 — Verse Job 2:11. Job's three friends — The first was Eliphaz the Temanite; or, as the Septuagint has it, Ελιφαζ ὁ Θαιμανων βασιλευς, Eliphaz the king on the Thaimanites. Eliphaz was one of the sons of Esau; and Teman, of Eliphaz, Genesis 36:10-11. Teman was a city of Edom, Jeremiah 49:7-20; Ezekiel 25:13; Amos 1:11-12.Bildad the Shuhite — Or, as the Septuagint, Βαλδαδ ὁ Συχεων τυραννος, Baldad, tyrant of the Suchites. Shuah was the son of Abraham by Keturah: and his posterity is

Psalms 104:35 — Versículo Salmo 104:35 . Que los pecadores sean consumidos de la tierra, y que los impíos no existan más. O bien, consumirá a los malvados e impíos, hasta que no se encuentren más de ellos. Entonces los impíos serán convertidos en el infierno, con todas las naciones que

Psalms 21:1 — PSALM XXI The psalmist returns thanks to God for giving him the victory over his enemies; which victory he had earnestly requested, 1, 2. He enters into a detail of the blessings that in consequent of the victory he had obtained, 3-7. He predicts the destruction of all those who may hereafter rise up against him, 8-12; and concludes with praising the power of Jehovah, 13. NOTES ON PSALM XXIIn the title of this Psalm there is nothing particularly worthy of remark. The occasion

Psalms 55:23 — Versículo Salmo 55:23 . Pero tú, oh Dios, los harás descender al pozo de la destrucción.  El caldeo es enfático: "Y tú, oh Señor, por tu PALABRA (במימרך bemeymerach) los empujarás a la fosa profunda de la gehenna, el pozo sin fondo, de donde nunca saldrán; el pozo de la

Proverbs 30:29 — Verse Proverbs 30:29. There be three things which go well — Here is another set of emblems; four things which walk beautifully and with majesty. 1. The Lamentations 2:0; Lamentations 2:0. The greyhound. 3. The he-goat. And, 4. A king.1. Nothing can be more majestic

Proverbs 30:29 — Versículo Proverbios 30:29 . Hay tres cosas que van bien. Aquí hay otro conjunto de emblemas; cuatro cosas que caminan con hermosura y majestad . 1. Las langostas. 2. El ceñido de lomos.  3. El macho cabrío . Y, 4. Un rey . 1. Nada puede ser más majestuoso que el andar del

Ecclesiastes 12:3 — Verse Ecclesiastes 12:3. In the day when the keepers of the house — The BODY of man is here compared to a HOUSE: - mark the metaphors and their propriety.1. The keepers shall tremble - the hands become paralytic, as is constantly the case, less or more, in old age.2.

Daniel 7:7 — power and greatness, extent of dominion, and length of duration.It had ten horns — The ten kingdoms into which the Roman empire was afterwards divided. Calmet says, ten Syrian kings: and he finds them thus: -1. Seleucus Nicator.2. Antiochus Soter.3. Antiochus Theos.4. Antiochus Callinicus.5. Seleucus Ceraunus.6. Antiochus the Great.7. Seleucus, surnamed Philopater, brother of Antiochus Epiphanes.8. Laomedon of Mitylene, to whom Syria and Phoenicia had been intrusted.9. Antigone. And,10. His son

Hosea 8:1 — This chapter begins with threatening some hostile invasion in short and broken sentences, full of rapidity, and expressive of sudden danger and alarm: "The trumpet to thy mouth; he cometh as an eagle," 1. And why? For their hypocrisy, 2; iniquity, 3; treason (see 2 Kings 15:13; 2 Kings 15:17) and idolatry, 4; particularly the worshipping of the calves of Dan and Bethel, 5, 6. The folly and unprofitableness of pursuing evil courses is then set forth in brief but very emphatic terms. The labour of

Zechariah 3:1 — CHAPTER III While the Jews were rebuilding their temple, their adversaries endeavoured to stop the work, Ezra 5:3-4, c. This vision is therefore calculated to give them the strongest encouragement that God, after plucking them as brands out of the fire (or captivity of Babylon,) would not now give them up, but would continue to prosper and favour them and that

Luke 13:1 — CHAPTER XIII. Christ preaches the necessity of repentance, from the punishment of the Galileans massacred by Pilate, 1-3. And by the death of those on whom the tower in Siloam fell, 4, 5. The parable of the barren fig tree, 6-29. Christ cures a woman who had been afflicted eighteen years, 10-13. The ruler of the synagogue is incensed and is reproved by our Lord, 14-17.

John 19:1 — CHAPTER XIX. Jesus is scourged, crowned with thorns, and mocked by the soldiers, 1-3. He to brought forth by Pilate, wearing the purple robe; and the Jews clamour for his death, 4-8. Conversation between our Lord and Pilate, 9-11. Pilate expostulates with the Jews on their barbarous demands; but they become more inveterate, and he delivers

Romans 11:32 — Verse 32. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief — Συνεκλεισε γαρ ὁ Θεος, God hath shut or locked them all up under unbelief. This refers to the guilty state of both Jews and Gentiles. They had all broken God's law-the Jews, the written law; the

Romans 5:14 — Moses during the space of about 2500 years; for, after Adam's transgression, that law was abrogated; and, from that time, men were either under the general covenant of grace given to Adam or Noah, or under that which was specially made with Abraham.3. That, therefore, the sins committed were not imputed unto them to death, for they did not sin after the similitude of Adam's transgression; that is, they did not, like him, transgress a law, or rule of action, to which death, as the penalty, was annexed.

2 Corinthians 3:1 — his detractors, that the faith and salvation of the Corinthians were sufficient testimony of his Divine mission; that he needed no letters of recommendation, the Christian converts at Corinth being a manifest proof that he was an apostle of Christ, 1-3. He extols the Christian ministry, as being infinitely more excellent than that of Moses, 4-12. Compares the different modes of announcing the truth under the law and under the Gospel: in the former it was obscurely delivered; and the veil of darkness,

2 Timothy 3:16 — many of the fathers, and certainly does not agree well with the text. The apostle is here, beyond all controversy, speaking of the writings of the Old Testament, which, because they came by Divine inspiration, he terms the Holy Scriptures, 2 Timothy 3:15 and it is of them alone that this passage is to be understood; and although all the New Testament came by as direct an inspiration as the Old, yet, as it was not collected at that time, not indeed complete, the apostle could have no reference to

3 John 1:7 — Verse 3 John 1:7. For his name's sake they went forth — For the sake of preaching the Gospel of the grace of God, and making known JESUS to the heathen.Taking nothing of the Gentiles. — Receiving no emolument for their labour, but in every respect

2 Samuel 12:31 — Verse 2 Samuel 12:31. He brought forth the people — And put them under saws. From this representation a great cry has been raised against "David's unparalleled, if not diabolic, cruelty." I believe this interpretation was chiefly taken from the parallel place, 1