Bible Commentaries

Genesis 21:33 — varias instancias de קרא kara, y un sustantivo después, a veces con y a veces sin la partícula אל el , y luego significa llamar a la persona allí mencionada; por lo tanto, קרא יהוה kara Yehovah es a invocar el Señor , Salmo 14:4; Salmo 17:6; Salmo 31:17; Salmo 53:4; Salmo 118:5, c. y קרא אל יהוה kara el Yehovah importa lo mismo, 1 Samuel 12:17; Jonás 1:6, c. pero קרא בשם kara beshem es o para nombrar POR el nombre , Génesis 4:17; Números 32:42; Salmo 49:11; Isaías 43:7; o

Exodus 10:4 — commonly called locusts; and as they multiply faster than any other animal in creation, they are properly entitled to the name ארבה arbeh, which might be translated the numerous or multiplied insect. See this circumstance referred to, Judges 6:5; Judges 7:12; Psalms 105:34; Jeremiah 46:23; Jeremiah 51:14; Joel 1:6; Nahum 3:15; Judith 2:19, 20; where the most numerous armies are compared to the arbeh or locust. The locust has a large open mouth; and in its two jaws it has four incisive teeth, which traverse

Exodus 11:7 — Verse Exodus 11:7. Not a dog move his tongue — This passage has been generally understood as a proverbial expression, intimating that the Israelites should not only be free from this death, but that they should depart without any kind of molestation. For though

Exodus 34:33 — public to the people, he put the veil on his face, because they could not bear to look on the brightness of his countenance; but when he entered into the tabernacle to converse with the Lord, he removed this veil, Exodus 34:34. St. Paul, 2 Corinthians 3:7, c., makes a very important use of the transactions recorded in this place. He represents the brightness of the face of Moses as emblematical of the glory or excellence of that dispensation but he shows that however glorious or excellent that was, it

2 Kings 1:1 — computation is from the common Hebrew text, with the single exception of fixing the birth of Abraham in the one hundred and thirtieth year of the life of his father, instead of the seventieth, in order to reconcile 2 Kings 11:26; 2 Kings 11:32, with Acts 7:4. But these passages are better reconciled, in the opinion of Dr. Kennicott, by stating (with the Samaritan Pentateuch) the whole life of Terah to have been one hundred and forty-five years, instead of two hundred and five, as in our common Bibles.

Job 3:26 — refers the whole to the quick succession of the series of heavy evils by which he was tried. There is a similar thought in the Psalmist: Deep crieth unto deep at the noise of thy water-spouts; all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me; Psalms 42:7. One evil treads on the heels of another.IN this chapter Job's conflict begins. Now, and not before, Satan appears to have access to his mind. When he deprived him of his property, and, what was still dearer, of his sons and his daughters, the hope

Psalms 26:12 — another with their heart, Psalms 26:4.3. Malignant; doing all for their own ends, Psalms 26:5.4. Impious; regardless of God and religion, Psalms 26:5.5. Sinners; traders in wickedness, Psalms 26:9.6. Blood-thirsty men; cruel and revengeful. Psalms 26:9.7. Mischievous; ready to execute with their hands what they had plotted in their heart, Psalms 26:10.8. Lovers of bribes; perverting judgment for the sake of money, Psalms 26:10.With such David will have nothing to do: "But as for me, I will walk in my

Psalms 46:11 — ruined and overwhelmed.3. "Though the waters roar and be troubled." Though multitudes of people threaten, and join their forces to ruin the Church.4. "Though the mountains (i.e., kingdoms) shake with the swelling thereof." Waters mean people, Revelation 17:15.More plainly, for we have the interpretation of these metaphors, Psalms 46:6: "Though the heathen raged, and the kingdoms were moved," yet we were not afraid, nor will we fear. We have a fine illustration of this bold feeling (from a consciousness

Psalms 75:10 — Verse Psalms 75:10. All the horns of the wicked — All their power and influence, will I cut off; and will exalt and extend the power of the righteous. The psalmist is said to do these things, because he is as the mouth of God to denounce them. All was punctually

Leviticus 10:1 — CHAPTER X Nadab and Abihu offer strange fire before the Lord, and are destroyed, 1-5. Aaron and his family forbidden to mourn for them, 6, 7. He and his family are forbidden the use of wine, 8-11. Directions to Aaron and his sons concerning the eating of the meat-offerings, c., 12-15. Moses chides Aaron for not having eaten the sin-offering, 16-18. Aaron excuses himself, and Moses is satisfied,

Leviticus 16:29 — Verse 29. The seventh month, on the tenth day of the month — The commandment of fasting, and sanctifying this tenth day, is again repeated Leviticus 23:27-32; but in the last verse it is called the ninth day at even, because the Jewish day began with the evening. The sacrifices which the day of atonement should have more than other days, are mentioned Numbers 29:7-11; and the jubilee which was celebrated

Leviticus 7:8 — Verse Leviticus 7:8. The priest shall have to himself the skin — Bishop Patrick supposes that this right of the priest to the skin commenced with the offering of Adam, "for it is probable," says he, "that Adam himself offered the first sacrifice, and had the skin

Isaiah 1:1 — according to the generally received Hebrew text, 1588. -Year from the vocation of Abram, 1161. -Year from the foundation of Solomon's Temple, 251. -First year of the fifth Olympiad. -Year before the building of Rome, according to the Varronian computation, 7. -Fifteenth year of the reign of Thurimas, king of Macedon. -Eleventh year of the reign of Theopompus, king of Lacedaemon. -Second year of the reign of Alyattes, king of Lydia. -Eighteenth year of AEschylus, perpetual archon of the Athenians. -Second

Isaiah 18:1 — whose vast army, just as he thought his projects ripe, and ready to be crowned with success, 5, should become a prey to the beasts of the field, and to the fowls of heaven, 6; and that Egypt should be grateful to God for the deliverance vouchsafed her, 7. This is one of the most obscure prophecies in tho whole Book of Isaiah. The subject of it, the end and design of it, the people to whom it is addressed, the history to which it belongs, the person who sends the messengers, and the nation to whom the

Isaiah 65:1 — the uttermost; a prediction which was exactly fulfilled in the first and second centuries in the reigns of the Roman emperors Vespasian, Titus, and Hadrian, when the whole Jewish polity was dissolved, and the people dispersed all over the world, 6, 7. Though God had rejected the Jews, and called the Gentiles, who sought him not, (Romans 9:24-26,) yet a remnant from among the former shall be preserved, to whom he will in due time make good all his promises, 8-10. Denunciation of Divine vengeance

Deuteronomy 32:52 — Verse Deuteronomy 32:52. Thou shalt see the land before thee — See Numbers 27:12, c. How glorious to depart out of this life with God in his heart and heaven in his eye! his work, his great, unparalleled usefulness, ending only with his life. The serious reader will surely join in the following pious ejaculation of the late Rev.

Romans 7:25 — Verse Romans 7:25. I thank God through Jesus Christ — Instead of ευχαριστω τῳ Θεῳ, I thank God, several excellent MSS., with the Vulgate, some copies of the Itala, and several of the fathers, read ἡ χαρις του Θεου, or του Κυριου, the grace of God, or the

Romans 7:25 — Versículo Romanos 7:25 . Doy gracias a Dios por medio de Jesucristo... En lugar de ευχαριστω τῳ Θεῳ, doy gracias a Dios , varios manuscritos excelentes, con la Vulgata , algunas copias de Itala , y varios de los padres , léase ἡ χαρις του Θεου, o του Κυριου, el de Dios

1 Corinthians 13:13 — proceed immediately from God himself. 5. God, in the plenitude of his excellences, is as incomprehensible to a glorified spirit, as he is to a spirit resident in flesh and blood. 6. Every created, intellectual nature is capable of eternal improvement. 7. If seeing God as he is be essential to the eternal happiness of beatified spirits, then the discoveries which he makes of himself must be gradual; forasmuch as it is impossible that an infinite, eternal nature can be manifested to a created and limited

1 Corinthians 13:13 — inmediatamente de Dios mismo. 5. Dios, en la plenitud de sus excelencias, es tan incomprensible para un espíritu glorificado, como lo es para un espíritu residente en carne y hueso. 6. Toda naturaleza creada, intelectual, es capaz de mejorar eternamente. 7. Si ver a Dios tal como es es esencial para la felicidad eterna de los espíritus beatificados, los descubrimientos que hace de sí mismo deben ser graduales, pues es imposible que una naturaleza infinita y eterna pueda manifestarse a una naturaleza creada