Bible Commentaries

Genesis 17:1 — año noventa y nueve de la vida de Abram, Dios aparece nuevamente a él, anuncia su nombre como DIOS TODOPODEROSO y le ordena que camine perfectamente delante de él , 1; Propone renovar el pacto , 2. La postración de Abram , 3. El pacto especificado , 4. El nombre de Abram cambió a ABRAHAM, y la razón dada , 5. Los privilegios del pacto enumerados , 6-8. Las condiciones del pacto deben ser observadas, no solo por Abraham, sino por toda su descendencia, 9. Circuncisión designada como señal o símbolo

Genesis 23:20 — 3). Para evitarle incurrir en gastos innecesarios, el pueblo a una sola voz le ofrece el privilegio de enterrar a su esposa en cualquiera de sus sepulcros; esto les parece que no son más que los derechos comunes de hospitalidad y humanidad requeridos. 4. Abraham, con la intención de hacer una compra a Efron, el dueño del campo y la cueva, los valora en cuatrocientos siclos, pero al mismo tiempo desea que Abraham reciba todo como un regalo . 5. Abraham rechaza el regalo y pesa la plata especificada.

Genesis 5:22 — patriarca , para presidir; caminó trescientos años con Dios, y engendró hijos e hijas; por lo tanto el matrimonio no es obstáculo ni siquiera para la perfección de la piedad; mucho menos inconsistente con él, como algunos han enseñado imprudentemente. 4. La asombrosa altura de piedad a la que había llegado; Habiendo sido limpiado de toda inmundicia de la carne y del espíritu, y habiendo perfeccionado la santidad en el temor de Dios, encontramos no sólo su alma, sino su cuerpo purificado, de modo que,

Exodus 10:4 — La OCTAVA plaga - las LANGOSTAS Verso Éxodo 10:4. Mañana traeré las langostas...  La palabra ארבה arbeh , una langosta , es probablemente de la raíz רבה rabah , él multiplicado, se convirtió en grande , poderoso , ertc. por los inmensos enjambres de estos animales por los que se infestan diferentes

Exodus 38:8 — employed about the house of the high priest in our Lord's time; for a woman is actually represented as keeping the door of the palace of the high priest, John 18:17: Then saith the DAMSEL that KEPT THE DOOR unto Peter; see also Matthew 26:69. In 2 Samuel 4:6, both the Septuagint and Vulgate make a woman porter or doorkeeper to Ishbosheth. Aristophanes mentions them in the same office, and calls them Σηκις, Sekis, which seems to signify a common maid-servant. Aristoph, in Vespis, ver. 768: - Ὁτι την θυραν

Exodus 8:32 — flies, gave such proofs of their reality as to put the truth of these miracles out of question for ever. It was necessary that this point should be fully proved, that both the Egyptians and Israelites might see the finger of God in these awful works.4. To superficial observers only do "Moses and the magicians appear to be nearly matched." The power of God was shown in producing and removing the plagues. In certain cases the magicians imitated the production of a plague, but they had no power to remove

Nehemiah 8:17 — cannot, of themselves, reap all the requisite benefit from reading the Scriptures.3. Sacred things are illustrated in the Bible by a reference to arts and sciences, of which the mass of the people are as ignorant as they are of the original tongues.4. Provincial customs and fashions are mentioned in these writings, which must be understood, or the force and meaning of many texts cannot be comprehended.5. There is a depth in the word of God which cannot be fathomed except either by Divine inspiration,

Job 28:28 — circumstance, would infallibly take place. Persons who ascend high mountains, through want of a sufficiency of pressure in the atmosphere, become relaxed, and spit blood. Animals, under an exhausted receiver, swell, vomit, and discharge their faeces.4. It promotes the mixture of contiguous fluids; for when the air is extracted from certain mixtures, a separation takes place, by which their properties, when in combination, are essentially changed.5. To this principle we owe winds in general, so essential

Psalms 2:7 — mediador entre Dios y el hombre. No hace falta que diga al lector que el verbo hebreo ילד yalad, engendrar, se usa frecuentemente en referencia a las cosas inanimadas, para significar su producción, o la exhibición de las cosas producidas. En Génesis 2:4 : Estas son las generaciones , תולדות toledoth, de los cielos y de la tierra; este es el orden en que Dios los produjo y exhibió. Véase Heb . e Ing. Concordia, Venema.

Psalms 57:11 — on it. So does David. My heart is ready, prepared, fixed. I will be thankful. I am determined.3. It is not enough that a man have a thankful heart; he must declare it, and make publicly known what God has done for him: "I will sing, and give praise."4. He should use all means in his power to make it known; tongue, psaltery, harp, are all little enough. To these he addresses himself: "Awake, tongue, lute, harp," c.5. He must not do it carelessly: "Awake! Awake! Myself will awake."6. He must take the

Psalms 57:11 — lo hace David. Mi corazón está listo, preparado, fijado. Seré agradecido. Estoy decidido. 3. No es suficiente que un hombre tenga un corazón agradecido; debe declararlo, y dar a conocer públicamente lo que Dios ha hecho por él: "Cantaré y alabaré". 4. Debe utilizar todos los medios a su alcance para darlo a conocer; la lengua, el salterio, el arpa, son pocos. A éstos se dirige: "Despierta, lengua, laúd, arpa". 5. No debe hacerlo sin cuidado: "¡Despierta! ¡Despierta! Yo mismo me despertaré". 6. Debe

Psalms 97:12 — him: "Worship him, all ye gods," Psalms 97:7. All confidence should be reposed in him.3. God's people rejoice when they find that it is their own Lord who is coming to judgment: "Zion heard, and was glad the daughters of Judah rejoiced," Psalms 97:8.4. And they rejoiced chiefly in knowing that their God "was high above all the earth, and exalted far above all gods," Psalms 97:9.III. The expostulation, which gives us the character by which God's people may be known. He exhorts them to love God, and

Leviticus 11:1 — CHAPTER XI Laws concerning clean and unclean animals, 1, 2. Of QUADRUPEDS, those are clean which divide the hoof and chew the cud, 3. Those to be reputed unclean which do not divide the hoof, though they chew the cud, 4-6. Those to be reputed unclean also which, though they divide the hoof, do not chew the cud, 7. Whosoever eats their flesh, or touches their carcasses, shall be reputed unclean, 8. Of FISH, those are clean, and may be eaten which have fins and scales,

Ezekiel 8:1 — CHAPTER VIII Here begins a section of prophecy extending to the twelfth chapter. In this chapter the prophet is carried in vision to Jerusalem, 1-4; and there shown the idolatries committed by the rulers of the Jews, even within the temple. In the beginning of this vision, by the noblest stretch of an inspired imagination, idolatry itself is personified, and made an idol; and the image sublimely

Matthew 12:40 — Verse 40. Three days and three nights — Our Lord rose from the grave on the day but one after his crucifixion: so that, in the computation in this verse, the part of the day on which he was crucified, and the part of that on which he rose again, are severally

Matthew 23:39 — life, must proceed from him alone. Our forefathers noted this well; and this was one of the grand arguments by which they overturned the papal pretensions to supremacy in this country. In a note on Matthew 23:9, in a Bible published by Edmund Becke in 1549, the 2nd of Edward VI., we find the following words: - Call no man your father upon the earth. Here is the Bishoppe of Rome declared a plaine Antichrist, in that he woulde be called the most holye father; and that all Christen men shoulde acknowledge

Matthew 3:11 — 3:11. But he that cometh after me — Or, I coming after me, who is now on his way, and will shortly make his appearance. Jesus Christ began his ministry when he was thirty years of age, Luke 3:23, which was the age appointed by the law, Numbers 4:3. John the Baptist was born about six months before Christ; and, as he began his public ministry when thirty years of age, then this coming after refers to six months after the commencement of John's public preaching, at which time Christ entered upon

John 8:12 — brings and supports life. The sun, the fountain of light, is also the fountain of life: by his vivifying influences, all things live-neither animal nor vegetative life could exist, were it not for his influence. Jesus, the Sun of righteousness, Malachi 4:2, is the fountain of all spiritual and eternal LIFE. His light brings life with it, and they who walk in his light live in his life. This sentiment is beautifully expressed and illustrated in the following inimitable verse (all monosyllables except

Joshua 2:24 — Versículo Josué 2:24 . Verdaderamente el Señor ha entregado en nuestras manos toda la tierra.  ¡Cuán diferente fue este informe del traído por los espías en una ocasión anterior! Encontraron que todos los habitantes de la tierra estaban aterrorizados. El pueblo había oído

2 Samuel 22:11 — hymn, that when delivered from all his other enemies as well as from the hand of Saul, he then consecrated his leisure by composing this sublime prophecy concerning MESSIAH, his son, whom he represents here as speaking, (just as in Psalms 22:0, Psalms 40:0, and other places,) and as describing,1. His triumph over death and hell;2. The manifestations of Omnipotence in his favour, earth and heaven, trembling at God's awful presence;3. The speaker's innocence thus divinely attested;4. The vengeance he