Bible Commentaries

Genesis 7:2 — Verse Genesis 7:2. Of every clean beast — So we find the distinction between clean and unclean animals existed long before the Mosaic law. This distinction seems to have been originally designed to mark those animals which were proper for sacrifice and food, from those that were not. See Lev. xi.

Ecclesiastes 3:7 — Versículo Eclesiastés 3:7 . Un tiempo para rasgar, - coser, - callar, - hablar. _______________ "Intestino brota Y las facciones rasgan un estado: al final la brecha se cura, y sobreviene el descanso. La sabiduría refrena la lengua, cuando las palabras son vanas: pero ahora, Es hora de hablar, y el silencio sería criminal".

Isaiah 7:4 — Versículo Isaías 7:4 . El siríaco omite וארם vearam, "y Siria"; la Vulgata lee מלך ארם melech aram, "rey de Siria": una u otra parece ser la lectura verdadera. Yo prefiero la primera: o, en lugar de וארם ובן vearam uben, léase ופקח בן vepekach ben, y pekah hijo, MS.

Jeremiah 29:26 — Versículo Jeremias 29:26 . Por cada hombre que está loco, y se hace profeta. Loco , משגע meshugga, en éxtasis extático; tal como apareció en los profetas, sea verdadero o falso , cuando estaba bajo la influencia, uno de Dios, el otro de un demonio. Véase 2 Reyes 9:11 ; Oseas 9:7 . 

Lamentations 1:3 — Versículo Lamentaciones 1:3 . Entre los estrechos.  Ha sido puesta en tales dificultades, que le era imposible escapar. ¿Tiene esto alguna referencia a las circunstancias en que Sedequías y los príncipes de Judá trataron de escapar de Jerusalén por el camino de las puertas entre los dos muros ? Jeremias 52:7 .

Ezekiel 29:6 — Versículo Ezequiel 29:6 . Han sido un bastón de caña. Un aliado ineficaz y desleal. Los israelitas esperaban su ayuda cuando Nabucodonosor vino contra Jerusalén; e hicieron una finta para ayudarlos, pero se retiraron cuando Nabucodonosor fue contra ellos. Así fueron engañados los judíos y finalmente arruinados, véase Ezequiel 29:7 .

Ezekiel 32:7 — Verse Ezekiel 32:7. I will cover the heaven — Destroy the empire.Make the stars thereof dark — Overwhelm all the dependent states.I will cover the sun — The king himself.And the moon shall not give her light. — The queen may be meant, or some state less than the kingdom.

Ezekiel 34:7 — Verse Ezekiel 34:7. Therefore, ye shepherds, (ye bad and wicked shepherds,) hear the word of the Lord — In the preceding character of the good shepherd the reader will find, by reversing the particulars, the character of a bad shepherd; and therefore I may be excused from entering into farther detail.

Ezekiel 44:7 — Verse Ezekiel 44:7. The fat and the blood — These never went into common use; they were wholly offered to God. The blood was poured out; the fat consumed.Because of all your abominations. — Several MSS. of Kennicott's and De Rossi's read their abominations, referring to the strangers mentioned before.

Daniel 7:10 — Verse Daniel 7:10. A fiery stream issued — This is not spoken of the final judgment; but of that which he was to execute upon this fourth beast, the Roman empire; and the little boasting horn, which is a part of the fourth beast, and must fall when the other falls.

Hosea 12:7 — Versículo Oseas 12:7 . Es un mercader o un cananeo ; haciendo referencia a los fenicios , famosos por su tráfico. Efraín es tan corrupto como lo fueron esos traficantes paganos. Mantuvo, como lo han hecho muchos en todas las épocas, un peso ; uno pesado para comprar y uno liviano para vender .

Micah 7:13 — Verse Micah 7:13. Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate — This should be translated in the preter tense, "Though the land HAD been desolate;" that is, the land of Israel had been desolate during the captivity, which captivity was the "fruit of the evil doings of them that had dwelt therein."

Micah 7:13 — Versículo Miqueas 7:13 . No obstante, la tierra será desolada. Esto debería traducirse en tiempo preter, "Aunque la tierra HABÍA sido desolada;" es decir, la tierra de Israel había sido desolada durante el cautiverio, el cual cautiverio fue el "fruto de las malas obras de los que habían morado en ella".

Zephaniah 2:5 — Verse 5. The sea-coasts, the nation of the Cherethites — The sea-coasts mean all the country lying on the Mediterranean coast from Egypt to Joppa and Gaza. The Cherethites - the Cretans who were probably a colony of the Phoenicians. See on 1 Samuel 30:14, and Amos 9:7.

Zephaniah 3:7 — Verse 7. Surely thou wilt fear me — After so many displays of my sovereign power and judgments.But they rose early — And instead of returning to God, they practised every abomination. They were diligent to find out times and places for their iniquity. This is the worst state of man.

Zechariah 3:7 — Verse Zechariah 3:7. If thou wilt walk in my ways — If ye, Israelites, priests and people, now restored to your own land, will walk in my ways, c., ye shall be a part of my family and have places-mansions-in eternal glory, with all them that are sanctified.

Luke 2:47 — Verse 47. Answers: — The word αποκρισις here seems not to mean answers only, but what Jesus said by way of question to the doctors, Luke 2:46. So in Revelation 7:13, one of the elders is said to have answered, saying - when he only asked a question. Bp. PEARCE.

Luke 7:5 — Verse Luke 7:5. He loveth our nation — He is a warm friend to the Jews; and has given a full proof of his affection to them in building them a synagogue. This he had done at his own proper charges; having no doubt employed his own men in the work.

Romans 7:2 — Verse Romans 7:2. For the woman which hath a husband — The apostle illustrates his meaning by a familiar instance. A married woman is bound to her husband while he lives; but when her husband is dead she is discharged from the law by which she was bound to him alone.

2 Corinthians 7:13 — Verse 2 Corinthians 7:13. For the joy of Titus — Titus, who had now met St. Paul in Macedonia, gave him the most flattering accounts of the improved state of the Corinthian Church; and indeed their kind usage of Titus was a full proof of their affection for St. Paul.