Bible Commentaries

Genesis 3:19 — independently of any supporting agency, so man could not have continued to live without a particular supporting agent; and this supporting agent under God appears to have been the tree of life. Ολιγη δε κεισομεσθα Κονις, οστεων λυθεντων. Anac. Od. 4., v. 9. "We shall lie down as a small portion of dust, our bones being dissolved."

Genesis 33:1 — CHAPTER XXXIII Esau, with four hundred men, meets Jacob, 1. He places his children under their respective mothers, passes over before them, and bows himself to his brother, 2, 3. Esau receives him with great affection, 4. Receives the homage of the handmaids, Leah, Rachel, and their children, 5-7. Jacob offers him the present of cattle, which he at first refuses, but after much entreaty accepts, 8-11. Invites Jacob to accompany him to Mount Seir, 12. Jacob excuses himself

Psalms 109:8 — escrituras sagradas, desde Génesis hacia abajo, para significar oficios y oficiales, designados por Dios inmediatamente o en el curso de su providencia, para el cumplimiento de los propósitos más importantes. Se aplica al patriarca José , Génesis 39:4 , ויפקדהו vaiyaphkidehu, lo hizo obispo, alias capataz , por lo que podría decirse con tanta sabiduría , y mucho más correctamente, lo nombró obispo, alias supervisor; por lo tanto, podría decirse tan sabiamente, y mucho más correctamente, que "el primer

Psalms 99:1 — SALMO XCIX El imperio de Dios en el mundo y la Iglesia , 1, 2. Debe ser alabado , 3. La justicia y el juicio son su gloria principal , 4. Debe ser adorado como entre los santos de la antigüedad, a quienes graciosamente respondió y salvó , 5-8. Exáltalo porque es santo , 9. NOTAS SOBRE EL SALMO XCIX El hebreo y el caldeo no tienen título ; todas las versiones excepto la caldea lo atribuyen

Proverbs 4:23 — Versículo Proverbios 4:23 . Guarda tu corazón con toda diligencia. "Sobre todo guardar", guarda tu corazón. El que sabe algo de sí mismo, sabe cuán propensos son sus afectos a extraviarse. Porque de ella brotan los asuntos de la vida.  תוצאות חיים totseoth chaiyim , "las

Proverbs 8:17 — nos permitirá amarlo aún más y más ; y así podemos ir aumentando hasta la eternidad. ¡Bendito sea Dios! Y los que me buscan temprano me encontrarán.  No simplemente temprano en la mañana , aunque el que lo haga lo encontrará muy ventajoso; (ver Salmo 4:1 ;) sino temprano en la vida , en la juventud , y tan cerca como sea posible del primer amanecer de la razón . A los jóvenes se les hace especialmente esta graciosa promesa: si buscan , encontrarán. Otros, que son viejos, pueden buscar y encontrar;

Isaiah 1:5 — encontrará en ti una extremidad en la que puedas ser golpeado ". Lo cual concuerda con lo que sigue: "Desde la planta del pie hasta la cabeza, no hay en él cosa sana:" y el sentimiento e imagen es exactamente el mismo que el de Ovidio, Pont . ii. 7, 42: - Vix habet in nobis jam nova plaga locum. No hay lugar en ti para una nueva raya. O ese verso aún más expresivo de Eurípides ; cuya gran fuerza y ​​efecto atribuye Longinus a su estructura cerrada y comprimida, análoga al sentido que expresa: - ́γεμω

Isaiah 18:4 — Versículo Isaías 18:4 . Porque así me dijo el Señor - "Porque así me ha dicho JEHOVÁ". El tema de la parte restante de este capítulo es que Dios consolaría y apoyaría a su propio pueblo, aunque amenazado de destrucción inmediata por los asirios; que los grandes designios

Isaiah 20:1 — Ezequías; véase 2 Reyes 18:8 . El pueblo esperaba ser socorrido por los cusitas de Arabia y por los egipcios. A Isaías se le ordenó ir descubierto, es decir, sin su prenda superior, el áspero manto que llevaban comúnmente los profetas (véase Zacarías 13:4 ), probablemente tres días, para mostrar que dentro de tres años la ciudad sería tomada, después de la derrota de los cusitas y los egipcios por el rey de Asiria, acontecimiento que haría desesperada su situación y los induciría a rendirse. Azoto era

Isaiah 4:5 — Versículo Isaías 4:5 . Y el Señor creará : un manuscrito, la Septuaginta y el árabe , tienen יביא yabi, Él traerá : la nube ya existe; el Señor lo traerá. Esta es una bendita promesa de la presencia de Dios en todas las asambleas de su pueblo. Cada morada - "la estación". El

1 Thessalonians 4:12 — ευσχημονως. Becomingly, decently, respectably; as is consistent with the purity, holiness, gravity, and usefulness of your Christian calling.Them that are without — The unconverted Gentiles and Jews. See this expression explained at large on Colossians 4:5.That ye may have lack of nothing. — That ye may be able to get your bread by honest labour, which God will ever bless; and be chargeable to no man. He that is dependent on another is necessarily in bondage; and he who is able to get his own

2 Thessalonians 2:1 — NOTES ON CHAP. II.Verse 2 Thessalonians 2:1. We beseech you - by the coming of our Lord — It is evident that the Thessalonians, incited by deceived or false teachers, had taken a wrong meaning out of the words of the first epistle, 1 Thessalonians 4:15, c., concerning the day of judgment and were led then to conclude that that day was at hand; and this had produced great confusion in the Church: to correct this mistake, the apostle sent them this second letter, in which he shows that this day must

1 Timothy 3:7 — religious society; but I believe God rarely calls such to the work of the ministry, and never to the episcopate. Them that are without are the Jews, Gentiles, and the unconverted of all kinds. For the meaning of this term see Clarke's note on "Colossians 4:5".Lest he fall into reproach — For his former scandalous life.And the snare of the devil. — Snares and temptations, such as he fell in and fell by before. This is called the snare of the devil; for, as he well knows the constitution of

Hebrews 12:28 — never can fail, because it is the last dispensation.Let us have grace — εξωμεν χαριν. Let us have, keep, or hold fast, the benefit or gift, that is, the heavenly kingdom which God has given us. This is the meaning of the word, 2 Corinthians 8:4, and is so rendered by our translators; and it is only by this heavenly gift of the Gospel that we can serve God acceptably, for he can be pleased with no service that is not performed according to the Gospel of his Son.If we prefer the common meaning

Hebrews 2:6 — Verse Hebrews 2:6. But one in a certain place — This one is David; and the certain place, Psalms 8:4-6. But why does the apostle use this indeterminate mode of quotation? Because it was common thus to express the testimony of any of the inspired writers; אמר ההוא amar hahu kethab, thus saith a certain scripture. So Philo, De Plant. Noe: Ειπε γαρ που,

Hebrews 4:1 — promised to Christians, 3-10. Into this rest we should earnestly labour to enter, 11. A description of the word of God, 12, 13. Jesus is our sympathetic High Priest, 15. Through him we have confidence to come to God, 16. NOTES ON CHAP. IV.Verse Hebrews 4:1. Let us therefore fear — Seeing the Israelites lost the rest of Canaan, through obstinacy and unbelief, let us be afraid lest we come short of the heavenly rest, through the same cause.Should seem to come short of it. — Lest any of us

Hebrews 8:1 — sacrifice which he offered for the sins of the world was sufficient and effectual, and as such accepted by God. 3. That he has all power in the heavens and in the earth, and is able to save and defend to the uttermost all that come to God through him. 4. That he did not, like the Jewish high priest, depart out of the holy of holies, after having offered the atonement; but abides there at the throne of God, as a continual priest, in the permanent act of offering his crucified body unto God, in behalf

James 5:17 — consistency between the names of the same persons as expressed in the Old and the New Testaments should be kept up.The word ομοιοπαθης signifies of the same constitution, a human being just as ourselves are. See the same phrase and its explanation in Acts 14:15, and the note there. There was some reason to apprehend that because Elijah was translated, that therefore he was more than human, and if so, his example could be no pattern for us; and as the design of St. James was to excite men to pray, expecting

1 Peter 5:4 — Verse 1 Peter 5:4. When the chief Shepherd — That is, the Lord Jesus Christ, whose is the flock, and who provides the pasture, and from whom, if ye are legally called to the most awful work of preaching the Gospel, ye have received your commission; when he shall

Revelation 14:1 — Babylon, 8. A third angel denounces God's judgments against those who worship the beast or his image, 9-11. The patience of the saints, and the blessedness of them who die in the Lord, 12, 13. The man on the white cloud, with a sickle, reaping the earth, 14-16. The angel with the sickle commanded by another angel, who had power over fire, to gather the clusters of the vines of the earth, 17, 18. They are gathered and thrown into the great winepress of God's wrath, which is trodden without the city, and