Bible Commentaries

Genesis 28:1 — CHAPTER XXVIII Isaac directs Jacob to take a wife from the family of Laban, 1, 2; blesses and sends him away, 3, 4. Jacob begins his journey, 5. Esau, perceiving that the daughters of Canaan were not pleasing to his parents, and that Jacob obeyed them in going to get a wife of his own kindred, 6-8, went and took to wife Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael his father's

Genesis 29:1 — CHAPTER XXIX Jacob proceeds on his journey, 1. Comes to a well where the flocks of his uncle Laban, as well as those of several others, were usually watered, 2, 3. Inquires from the shepherds concerning Laban and his family, 4-6. While they are conversing about watering the sheep, 7, 8, Rachel arrives, 9. He assists her to water her flock, 10; makes himself known unto her, 11, 12. She hastens home and communicates the tidings of Jacob's arrival to her father, 12. Laban hastens

Genesis 30:1 — CHAPTER XXX Rachel envies her sister, and chides Jacob, 1. He reproves her and vindicates himself, 2. She gives him her maid Bilhah, 3, 4. She conceives, and bears Daniel 5:6; and afterwards Naphtali, 7, 8. Leah gives Zilpah her maid to Jacob, 9. She conceives and bears Gad, 10, 11, and also Asher, 12, 13. Reuben finds mandrakes, of which Rachel requests a part, 14. The bargain made between

Genesis 4:1 — CHAPTER IV The birth, trade, and religion of Cain and Abel, 1-7. Cain murders his brother Abel, 8. God calls him into judgment for it, 9, 10. He is cursed, 11, 12. He despairs, 15, 14. A promise given him of preservation, and a mark set on him to prevent his being killed, 15. He departs from God's presence, 16. Has a son whom he calls Enoch; and builds a city, which he calls after his name, 17. Cain has several children, among whom

Genesis 9:22 — Verse 22. - 24. And Ham, the father of Canaan, c. — There is no occasion to enter into any detail here the sacred text is circumstantial enough. Ham, and very probably his son Canaan, had treated their father on this occasion with contempt or reprehensible levity.

Psalms 104:1 — SALMO CIV La majestad y el poder de Dios manifestados en la creación del cielos y la atmósfera , 1-3; de la tierra y el mar , 4-9; de los manantiales, fuentes y ríos , 10-13; de hortalizas y árboles , 14-18; del sol y la luna , 19; del día y la noche, y sus usos , 20-23; de las riquezas de la tierra , 24; del mar, sus habitantes y sus usos , 25, 26; de la providencia general

Psalms 121:8 — países orientales. El sentido del pasaje es: Ni el día de la prosperidad ni la noche de la adversidad te dañarán; ni el calor de la persecución, ni la frialdad de amigos o parientes: todo esto obrará para tu bien. 3. "Él te guardará de todo mal"; - y, 4. Especialmente de todo lo que pueda lastimar tu alma : "Él guardará tu alma". El salmista concluye con esta seguridad alentadora. 1. "Jehová guardará tu salida". Siempre estamos comenzando o terminando alguna acción, yendo al extranjero o regresando

Psalms 138:1 — SALMO CXXXVIII El salmista alaba al Señor por sus misericordias hacia sí mismo , 1-3. Él predice que los reyes de la tierra lo adorarán , 4, 5. La condescendencia de Dios hacia los humildes , 6. La confianza del salmista , 7, 8. NOTAS SOBRE EL SALMO CXXXVIII El Hebreo y todas las Versiones atribuyen este Salmo a David , y se supone que fue hecho por él cuando, librado de todos sus enemigos,

Ecclesiastes 12:3 — incapaces de masticar adecuadamente sustancias duras o alimentos para animales. Y así cesan ; para las sustancias blandas o pulposas, que son necesarias entonces, requieren poca o ninguna masticación; y estos alimentos se convierten en su comida ordinaria. 4. Los que miran por las ventanas. Los nervios ópticos, que reciben impresiones, a través de los diferentes humores del ojo, de los objetos circundantes, se oscurecen; los humores se vuelven espesos, planos y turbios, y ya no son capaces de transmitir

Ecclesiastes 12:4 — Versículo Eclesiastés 12:4 . Y las puertas se cerrarán en las calles. 5. Las puertas - los labios , que son las puertas por las que se cierra la boca . 6. Ser cerrado en las calles. Las cavidades de las mejillas y las mandíbulas, a través del cual el alimento puede decirse que

Isaiah 17:1 — CAPÍTULO XVII Juicios de Dios sobre Damasco, 1-3; y sobre Israel, 4-6. Buenos efectos de estos juicios sobre el pequeño resto o remanente que escapara de ellos, 7, 8. Los mismos juicios representados en otros términos más fuertes, e imputados a la irreligión y a la negligencia hacia Dios, 9-11. Los versículos restantes

Isaiah 2:1 — del Mesías. Todo el tercer capítulo, con el primer versículo del cuarto, es una profecía de las calamidades de la invasión y cautiverio de Babilonia; con una particular amplificación de la angustia de las orgullosas y lujuriosas hijas de Sión; Isaías 4:2 promete al remanente, que habrá escapado de esta purgación severa, una restauración futura al favor y la protección de Dios. Esta profecía probablemente se entregó en la época de Jotam, o quizás en la de Uzías, como se dice que profetizó Isaías durante

1 Corinthians 12:27 — of the whole. Not one is useless; not one unnecessary. Paul, Apollos, Kephas, &c., with all their variety of gifts and graces, are for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, Ephesians 4:12. Hence no teacher should be exalted above or opposed to an other. As the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee, so luminous Apollos cannot say to laborious Paul, I can build up and preserve the Church without thee. The foot planted on

2 Corinthians 12:4 — Verse 2 Corinthians 12:4. Caught up into paradise — The Jewish writers have no less than four paradises, as they have seven heavens; but it is needless to wade through their fables. On the word paradise Genesis 2:8. The Mohammedans call it [Arabic] jennet alferdoos, the

2 Corinthians 3:1 — 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, typified by the veil which Moses wore, is still on the hearts of the Jews; but when they

2 Corinthians 3:3 — and desires; working that change within that is so signally manifested without. See the parts of this figurative speech:1. Jesus Christ dictates.2. The apostle writes.3. The hearts of the Corinthians are the substance on which the writing is made. And,4. The Holy Spirit produces that influence by which the traces are made, and the mark becomes evident.Here is not only an allusion to making inscriptions on stones, where one dictates the matter, and another cuts the letters; (and probably there were

2 Corinthians 4:16 — Verse 16. For which cause we faint not — ουκ εκκα κουμεν. See note on 2 Corinthians 4:1. Here we have the same various reading; εγκακουμεν, we do no wickedness; and it is supported by BDEFG, and some others: but it is remarkable that Mr. Wakefield follows the common reading here, though the various-reading is at least as well supported

Hebrews 5:4 — Verse Hebrews 5:4. This honour — τηντιμην undoubtedly signifies here the office, which is one meaning of the word in the best Greek writers. It is here an honourable office, because the man is the high priest of God, and is appointed by God himself to that office.But

Hebrews 7:27 — from those, offered by the Jewish priests:1. He offered no sacrifice for himself, but only for the people. 2. He did not offer that sacrifice annually, but once for all. 3. The sacrifice which he offered was not of calves and goats, but of himself. 4. This sacrifice he offered, not for one people, but for the whole human race; for he tasted death for every man.

Revelation 21:19 — Revelation 21:19. The foundations of the wall — Does not this mean the foundations or thresholds of the gates? The gates represented the twelve tribes, Revelation 21:12; and these foundations or thresholds, the twelve apostles, Revelation 21:14. There was no entrance into the city but through those gates, and none through the gates but over these thresholds. The whole of the Mosaic dispensation was the preparation of the Gospel system: without it the Gospel would have no original; without