Bible Commentaries

Job 1:17 — Mesopotamia. According to Xenophon (Cyrop. iii. 2, 7) the Chaldees dwelt in the mountains adjacent to Armenia and they were found in the same region in the campaign of the younger Cyrus, and the retreat of the ten thousand Greeks. Xen. Anaba. iv. 3, 4; v. 5, 9; viii. 8, 14.They were allied to the Hebrews, as appears from Genesis 22:22, where כשׂד keśed (whence “Kasdim”) the ancestor of the people is mentioned as a son of Nabor, and was consequently the nephew of Abraham. And further, Abraham himself emigrated

Job 42:6 — dolor, ya sea en vista del pecado o de la calamidad, sentarse en las cenizas (ver las notas en Job 2:8; comparar Daniel 9:3; Jonás 3:6; Mateo 11:21); o en tal ocasión, el paciente y el penitente arrojarían cenizas sobre sí mismo; compare Isaías 58:5. La filosofía de esto era, como la costumbre de usar ropa "negra" para la ropa de luto, que la apariencia externa debería corresponder con las emociones internas, y que la tristeza profunda se expresaría adecuadamente desfigurando el aspecto externo

Psalms 45:8 — commerce Genesis 43:11, and was highly esteemed by the Egyptians and Jews, as well as by the Greeks and the Romans. It is mentioned in Esther 2:12 as an article used in the purification of women; and as a perfume, Song of Solomon 4:6; Song of Solomon 5:5. It was used among the ancients, not only as a perfume, but as a fumigator, and as an article of medicine, and was employed in embalming the bodies of the dead. Herodotus, speaking of the practice of embalming among the Egyptians, says, “They then

Psalms 71 overview — respecto a la ocasión en que se compuso el salmo, quienquiera que fue el autor, es que se compuso cuando se acercaba la vejez, y en vista de las pruebas y las bendiciones de la vida consideradas desde la contemplación de su acercándose cerca, Salmo 71:5, Salmo 71:9, Salmo 71:17. La vida del autor había sido una de las pruebas Salmo 71:2, pero también de grandes misericordias Salmo 71:6, Salmo 71:17. Luego se vio rodeado de dificultades; las enfermedades de la edad se acercaban a él, y estaba rodeado

Isaiah 1:4 — as if it were a heavy burden. Exodus 28:38, Exodus 28:43, ‘That Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things.’ Leviticus 10:17 : ‘God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation.’ Leviticus 22:9; Leviticus 16:22; Numbers 18:1; Isaiah 53:6 : ‘Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.’ Isaiah 53:11 : ‘He shall bear their iniquities.’ 1 Peter 2:24 : ‘Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree.’A seed - זרע zera‛, from זרע zâra‛, to sow, to scatter, to disperse.

Isaiah 1:4 — carga pesada. Éxodo 28:38, Éxodo 28:43, 'Para que Aarón cargue con la iniquidad de las cosas santas'. Levítico 10:17: 'Dios te lo ha dado para que cargues con la iniquidad de la congregación. ' Levítico 22:9; Levítico 16:22; Números 18:1; Isaías 53:6: 'Jehová ha puesto sobre él la iniquidad de todos nosotros'. Isaías 53:11: 'Él llevará sus iniquidades'. 1 Pedro 2:24: 'Quién él mismo descubrió nuestros pecados en su propio cuerpo en el árbol '. Una semilla - זרע zera‛, desde זרע zâra‛, sembrar,

Isaiah 10 overview — the prophecy commenced in Isaiah 9:8, and should have been connected with that in the division into chapters; and the second part commences an entirely new prophecy, respecting the destruction of the Assyrians; see the Analysis prefixed to Isaiah 10:5. The first four verses of this chapter constitute the fourth strophe, or part of the prophecy, commenced in Isaiah 9:8, and contains a specification of a crime, and its punishment: “the crime,” prevalent injustice ann oppression Isaiah 9:1-2; “the punishment,”

Isaiah 55:1 — applied to the sense of want which sinners often have, and to their anxious wishes for salvation. It is not improbable that the Savior had this passage in his eye when he pronounced the blessing on those who hunger and thirst after righteousness Matthew 5:6. No needs are so keen, none so imperiously demand supply, as those of hunger and thirst. They occur daily; and when long continued, as in the case of those who are shipwrecked, and doomed to wander months or years over burning sands with scarcely

Isaiah 55:1 — aplica al sentido de deseo que los pecadores suelen tener, y a sus ansiosos deseos para la salvación No es improbable que el Salvador tuviera este pasaje en su ojo cuando pronunció la bendición sobre aquellos que tienen hambre y sed de justicia Mateo 5:6. No hay necesidades tan intensas, ninguna demanda tan imperiosamente la oferta, como las de hambre y sed. Ocurren a diario; y cuando se continúa por mucho tiempo, como en el caso de aquellos que naufragan y están condenados a vagar meses o años sobre

Hosea 9:8 — hast acted altogether contrary to this, for thou hast become a snare to them. ‘“Yet perhaps, if so construed, it would rather mean, “Ephraim is a watchman, beside my God,” as it is said, “There is none upon earth, that I desire with Thee” Psalms 73:25, i. e., beside Thee. In God the Psalmist had all, and desired to have nothing “with,” i. e., beside God. Ephraim was not content with God’s revelations, but would himself be “a seer, an espier” of future events, the prophet says with indignation, “together

Amos 6:13 — prophet referred , when he “made him horns of iron, and said” to Ahab, “Thus saith the Lord, with these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou hast consumed them.” The Psalmist said, “through Thee will we push down our enemies,” as with a horn Psalms 44:5-7; and adds, “For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. For Thou hast saved us from our enemies.” Israel ascribed God’s gift to himself. He had been repeatedly and greatly victorious; he had conquered every enemy, with whom he

Haggai 1:5 — at Thy Right Hand there are pleasures forevermore;” and Solomon Proverbs 6:23, “Reproofs of instruction are the way of life;” and, he is in Proverbs 10:17, “the way of life who keepeth instruction; and he who forsaketh rebuke, erreth;” and Proverbs 15:24, “The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath;” and of the adulterous woman, Proverbs 7:27. “Her house are the ways of hell, going down to the chambers of death” and Proverbs 5:5-6, “her feet go down unto death; her

Matthew 15:15-20 — obscure. Mark says that the disciples asked him. There is no contradiction. The question was put by Peter in the name of the disciples; or several of them put the question, though Matthew has mentioned only one. An omission is not a contradiction.Matthew 15:16Are ye also yet without understanding? - Jesus appeals, in explaining this, to their common sense; and he wonders that they had not yet learned to judge the foolish traditions of the Jews by the decisions of common sense and by his own instructions.Matthew

Matthew 9:18-26 — La cuenta contenida en estos versículos también se registra, con algunas circunstancias adicionales, en Marco 5:22 y Lucas 8:41. Mateo 9:18 Vino un cierto gobernante - Mark y Luke dicen que se llamaba Jairo y que era un "gobernante de la sinagoga"; es decir, uno de los ancianos a quienes se comprometió el cuidado de la sinagoga. Vea las notas en Mateo 4:23.

Luke 4:18 — poetic images to depict the return from Babylon, but the same images also describe the appropriate work of the Son of God.Hath anointed me - Anciently kings and prophets and the high priest were set apart to their work by anointing with oil, 1 Kings 19:15-16; Exodus 29:7; 1 Samuel 9:16, etc. This oil or ointment was made of various substances, and it was forbidden to imitate it, Exodus 30:34-38. Hence, those who were set apart to the work of God as king, prophet, or priest, were called the Lord’s anointed,

John 15:2 — nature with a living Saviour; of a lost sinner with an unchanging Friend and Redeemer. It is the most tender and interesting of all relations, but not more mysterious or more physical than the union of parent and child, of husband and wife Ephesians 5:23, or friend and friend.That beareth not fruit - As the vinedresser will remove all branches that are dead or that bear no fruit, so will God take from his church all professed Christians who give no evidence by their lives that they are truly united

Acts 1:9 — than remain on earth were:(1) That he had “finished” the work which God gave him to do “on the earth” John 17:4; John 19:30, and it was proper that he should be received back to the glory which he had with the Father before the world was, John 17:4-5; Philippians 2:6, Philippians 2:9-10.(2) It was proper that he should ascend in order that the Holy Spirit might come down and perform his part of the work of redemption. Jesus, by his personal ministry, as a man, could be but in one place; the Holy

Philippians 4:3 — probable that some other word would have been used than that rendered here as “help” - συλλαμβάνου sullambanou.Which laboured with me in the gospel - As Paul did not permit women to preach (see 1 Timothy 2:12; compare the notes at 1 Corinthians 10:5), he must have referred here to some other services which they had rendered. There were deaconesses in the primitive churches (see the Romans 16:1 note; 1 Timothy 5:9., note), to whom was probably entrusted particularly the care of the female members

1 Thessalonians 4:16 — elsewhere occur in the New Testament. It properly means a “cry’ of excitement, or of arging on; an outcry, clamor, or shout, as of sailors at the oar, Luc. Catapl. 19; of soldiers rushing to battle, Thuc. 3:14; of a multitude of people, Diod. Sic. 3:15; of a huntsman to his dogs, Xen. Ven. 6:20. It does not mean here, that the Lord would himself make such a shout, but that he would be attended with it; that is, with a multitude who would lift up the voice like that of an army rushing to the conflict.With

Revelation 14 overview — things - “to hold out the symbols of ultimate and certain victory” (Prof. Stuart). Those symbols are the following:(1) The vision of the hundred and forty-four thousand on Mount Zion, as emblematical of the final triumph of the redeemed, Revelation 14:1-5. They have the Father’s name in their foreheads Revelation 14:1; they sing a song of victory Revelation 14:2-3; they are found without fault before God - representatives, in this respect, of all that will be saved, Revelation 14:4-5.(2) The vision of