Bible Commentaries

Genesis 24:9 — Verse Genesis 24:9. Put his hand under the thigh of Abraham — This form of swearing has greatly puzzled the commentators; but it is useless to detail opinions which I neither believe myself, nor would wish my readers to credit. I believe the true sense is given

Daniel 11:30 — forsake the holy covenant; with wicked Menelaus the high priest; and the apostate Jews united with him, who gave from time to time such information to Antiochus as excited him against Jerusalem the temple, and the people. See 1Macc 1:41, 62; 2Macc 6:1-9; confirmed by Josephus, War, book i. chap. 1, s. 1. The concluding reflection of Bp. Newton here is excellent:-"It may be proper to stand a little here, and reflect how particular and circumstantial this prophecy is, concerning Egypt and Syria, from

Matthew 12:1 — CAPITULO XII. Jesús y sus discípulos atraviesan los campos de maíz en Sábado, y estos últimos arrancan y comen algunas de las espigas, por  que los fariseos se ofenden, 1, 2. Nuestro Señor los reivindica, 3-8. El hombre de la mano seca es curado, 9-13. Los fariseos buscan su destrucción, 14. Él sana a las multitudes y cumple ciertas profecías, 15-21. Cura al endemoniado ciego y mudo, 22, 23. La malicia de los fariseos reprobada por nuestro Señor, 24-30. El pecado contra el Espíritu Santo, 31,

Matthew 17:5 — esta era la apariencia de la semejanza de la gloria del Señor. Consulte también Éxodo 16:10; Éxodo 40:33, c. Ezequiel 43:2 y 1 Crónicas 5:14. Pero fue generalmente en una nube espesa y oscura que Dios se manifestó bajo la ley; ver Éxodo 19:9; Éxodo 20:21. Esto podría diseñarse como emblemático del antiguo pacto , que no era más que la sombra de cosas buenas que vendrían, Hebreos 10:1; y la nube de luz mencionada aquí, el emblema de esa gloriosa exhibición de Dios , en su Evangelio,

Matthew 8:9 — Verse Matthew 8:9. For I am a man under authority — That is, under the authority of others. This verse has given considerable embarrassment to commentators and critics. I believe the paraphrase given above to be the true meaning of the evangelist. To make this

Matthew 9:18 — Verse Matthew 9:18. A certain ruler — There were two officers in the synagogue, חזן הכנסת chazan ha-ceneseth, the bishop or overseer of the congregation; and ראש הכנסת rosh ha-ceneseth, the head or ruler of the congregation. The chazan takes the book of the Law,

Mark 9:49 — Verso Marco 9:49. Porque todos serán salados con fuego...  TCada uno de los que vivirán y morirán en pecado: pero hay una gran dificultad en este verso. El Códice Bezae, y algunos otros MSS, han omitido la primera cláusula; y varios MSS mantienen la primera, y omiten

Luke 1:1 — EL EVANGELIO SEGÚN SAN LUCAS. -Año Usheriano del Mundo, 3999. -Año alejandrino del mundo, 5497. -Año antioqueno del mundo, 5487. -Año Constantinopolitano del Mundo, 5503. -Año rabínico del mundo, 3754. -Año del Período Juliano, 4708. -Año de los Seleucidas, 307. -Año anterior a la era cristiana, 6. -Año de

John 18:28 — as a legal defilement; and therefore would not venture into the praetorium, for fear of contracting some impurity, which would have obliged them to separate themselves from all religious ordinances till the evening, Leviticus 15:10-11; Leviticus 15:19-20.That they might eat the passover. — Some maintain that το πασχα here does not mean the paschal lamb, but the other sacrifices which were offered during the paschal solemnity-for this had been eaten the evening before; and that our Lord was

Acts 17:1 — come to Thessalonica, were they preach the Gospel to the Jews, several of whom believe, 1-4. Others raise a mob, and bring Jason, who had received the apostles, before the magistrates, who, having taken bail of him and his companions, dismiss them, 5-9. Paul and Silas are sent away by night unto Berea, where they preach to the Jews, who gladly receive the Gospel, 10-12. Certain Jews from Thessalonica, hearing that the Bereans had received the Gospel, come thither and raise up a persecution, 13. Paul

Romans 6:6 — should live unto Him who died and rose again. Thus the metaphor, in all its leading senses, is complete, and applies most forcibly to the subject in question. We find that παλαιος ανθρωπος, the old man, used here, and in Ephesians 4:22, and Colossians 3:9, is the same as the flesh with its affections and lusts, Galatians 5:24; and the body of the sins of the flesh, Colossians 2:11; and the very same which the Jewish writers term אדם הקדמוני, Adam hakkadmoni, the old Adam; and which they interpret by

1 Corinthians 10:4 — that the apostle does not speak about the rock itself, but of Him whom it represented; namely, Christ: this was the Rock that followed them, and ministered to them; and this view of the subject is rendered more probable by what is said 1 Corinthians 10:9, that they tempted Christ, and were destroyed by serpents. The same rock is in the vale of Rephidim to the present day; and it bears aboriginal marks of the water that flowed from it in the fissures that appear on its sides. It is one block of fine

1 Corinthians 14:34 — Jewish ordinance; women were not permitted to teach in the assemblies, or even to ask questions. The rabbins taught that "a woman should know nothing but the use of her distaff." And the sayings of Rabbi Eliezer, as delivered, Bammidbar Rabba, sec. 9, fol. 204, are both worthy of remark and of execration; they are these: ישרפו דברי תורה ואל ימסרו לנשים yisrephu dibrey torah veal yimsaru lenashim, "Let the words of the law be burned, rather than that they should be delivered to women."This was their

1 Corinthians 14:34 — judía; a las mujeres no se les permitía enseñar en las asambleas, ni siquiera hacer preguntas. Los rabinos enseñaban que "una mujer no debe saber más que el uso de su rueca". Y los dichos de Rabí Eliezer, tal y como los pronunció, Bammidbar Rabba, sec. 9, fol. 204, son dignos tanto de observación como de execración; son estos: ישרפו דברי תורה ואל ימסרו לנשים yisrephu dibrey torah veal yimsaru lenashim, "Que las palabras de la ley sean quemadas, antes que ser entregadas a las mujeres". Esta fue su condición

1 Corinthians 5:1 — carelessness in this matter, and orders them to excommunicate the transgressor, 2-5. They are reprehended for their glorying, while such scandals were among them, 6. They must purge out the old leaven, that they may properly celebrate the Christian passover, 7-9. They must not associate with any who, professing the Christian religion, were guilty of any scandalous vice, and must put away from them every evil person, 10-13. NOTES ON CHAP. V.Verse 1 Corinthians 5:1. There is fornication among you — The

2 Corinthians 11:33 — Verse 2 Corinthians 11:33. Through a window in a basket — Probably the house was situated on the wall of the city. See the notes on this history, Acts 9:23-25.IN ver. 2 of this chapter 2 Corinthians 11:2 the apostle most evidently alludes to the history of the temptation, and fall of Adam and Eve, as related in Genesis 3:1, c. and which fall is there attributed to the agency of a being called נחש nachash,

2 Corinthians 9:10 — Verse 2 Corinthians 9:10. Now he that ministereth seed to the sower — The sower, as we have already seen, is he that gives alms of what he hath; and God, who requires him to give these alms, is here represented as providing him with the means. As in the creation, if

2 Peter 1:3 — own power hath bestowed on us every thing necessary for a happy life and godliness, having called us to the knowledge of himself, by his own infinite goodness. It is certain that the word αρετη, which we translate virtue or courage, is used, 1 Peter 2:9, to express the perfection of the Divine nature: That ye may show forth ταςαρετας, the virtues or PERFECTIONS, of him who hath called you from darkness into his marvellous light.But there is a various reading here which is of considerable importance,

Revelation 13:16 — eradication of all they denominate heresies out of their Church. But some receive the mark in their foreheads. By any thing being impressed upon the forehead, is meant the public profession of whatever is inscribed or marked upon it. See Revelation 9:4; Revelation 14:1; Revelation 22:4, c. The mark of the beast being received on the forehead, therefore, means that all those so marked make a public profession of the Latin worship whereby it is evident to all that they form a part of the Latin Church.

Revelation 18:11 — worshipings of drye waffer cakes, oyles, roods, relyques, ladyes, images, sculles, bones, chippes, olde ragges, showes, (shoes,) bootes, spurres, hattes, breches, whodes, night capes, and such like."And they that have lived wantonly with hir, (Revelation 18:9), in following hir idle observacions, in mattenses, houres, and masses; in sensinges, halowings, and font halowing; in going processions with canapye, crosse, and pyx; with banneres, stremers, and torche light; with such other gaudes to folish for children."Alas,