Bible Commentaries

2 Kings 20:20 — Versículo 2 Reyes 20:20 . El resto de los hechos de Ezequías. Ver los lugares paralelos en Isaías y en 2 Crónicas. En este último libro, 2 Crónicas 32:24-14 , encontramos varios detalles que no se insertan aquí; especialmente en cuanto a su orgullo, el aumento de sus riquezas, sus almacenes de grano, vino y aceite; sus pesebres para toda clase de bestias; sus ciudades, ovejas y vacas en abundancia; y

Romans overview — anxiety to bring them over to his persuasion would naturally produce; but there is an earnestness and a personality, if I may so call it, in the manner, which a cold forgery, I apprehend, would neither have conceived nor supported." Horae Paulinae, p. 49, etc.From a proper consideration of the design of the apostle in writing this epistle, and from the nature and circumstances of the persons to whom it was directed, much light may be derived for a proper understanding of the epistle itself. When the

2 Peter overview — has a still greater number of unusual figurative expressions; and it is not impossible that these also were borrowed from the Gnostics. The Second Epistle of St. Peter must have been written only a short time before his death; for he says, 2 Peter 1:14, 'shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me.' St. Peter here alludes to his conversation with Christ after the resurrection, recorded in John 21:18-22, where Christ had foretold his death in the following

Jude overview — Chaldee, and would certainly have been received into the old Syriac version."With respect to the date of this epistle, all that I am able to assert is, that it was written after the Second Epistle of Peter; but how many years after, whether between 64 and 66, as Lardner supposes, or between 70 and 75, as Beausobre and L'Enfant believe; or, according to Dodwell and Cave, in 71 or 72, or so late as the year 90, as is the opinion of Mill, I confess I am unable to determine, at least from any certain

2 Samuel 7:25 — trabajado por la conversión de los pecadores. Conocí un ejemplo notable de esto; conocí al Sr. John Haime, un predicador muy conocido entre los llamados metodistas. Era un soldado en el octavo regimiento de dragones de la reina, en Flandes, en los años 1739-46. Le dispararon a su caballo en la batalla de Fontenoy, el 11 de mayo de 1745, y estuvo en el fuego más intenso del enemigo durante más de siete horas; predicó entre sus compañeros de armas con frecuencia, y bajo el patrocinio inmediato de su alteza