Bible Commentaries

Genesis 37:1-36 — - José fue vendido a Egipto 17. דתין dotayı̂n Dothain , “¿dos pozos?” (Gesenio) 25. נכאת n e ko't “tragacanto” o goma de espina de cabra, producida por el “astragalus gummifer”, nativo del Monte Líbano. צרי tsērı̂y “opobalsamum”, la resina del árbol balsámico, que crece en Galaad y tiene cualidades curativas. לט loṭ , λῆδον lēdon

Genesis 38:1-30 — - La Familia de Judá 1. עדלם ‛ ǎdûllâm , 'Adullam, “rectitud”. חירה chı̂yrâh Chirah, “¿nobleza?” 2. שׁוּע shûa‛ , Shua', “suerte, riquezas, llanto”. 3. ער ‛ êr , 'Er: “observar”. 4. אונן 'ônân , Onan, “fuerte”. 5. שׁלה shēlâh , Shelah, “¿pedir? descanso." כזיב k e zı̂yb Kezib, “falsedad”. 6. תמר tāmār , Tamar, “palma”. 12. תמנה tı̂mnâh , Timnah, “contado o asignado”. 14. עינים 'êynayı̂m , 'Enaim, “dos fuentes”. 29. פרץ perets , Perets, “brecha”. Esta extraña

Job 3:5 — מות mâveth, "muerte;" y se usa para denotar la oscuridad más profunda; vea las notas en Isaías 9:2. Ocurre con frecuencia en las Sagradas Escrituras; compare Job 10:21; Salmo 23:4; Job 12:22; Job 16:16; Job 24:17; Job 34:22; Job 38:17; Amós 5:8; Jeremias 2:6. Se utiliza para denotar la morada de los espíritus difuntos, descrita por Job como "una tierra de oscuridad, como la oscuridad misma; de la sombra de la muerte sin ningún orden, y donde la luz es como la oscuridad; Job 10:21. La idea

Psalms 6 overview — semitones. It contains five full tones, and two semitones. It is supposed by Gesenius (Lexicon) here to denote “the lowest and gravest notes of the scale, sung by men, the modern bass or basso.” The word occurs, in the musical use, in 1 Chronicles 15:21, in enumerating various names of musicians, “Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, etc., with harps on the Sheminith to excel;” margin, “or eighth.” It is also found in the title to Psalms 12:1-8 : It does not elsewhere occur in reference to music in the Scriptures.

Psalms 6 overview — semitonos. Contiene cinco tonos completos y dos semitonos. Se supone que Gesenius (Léxico) aquí denota "las notas más bajas y más graves de la escala, cantadas por hombres, el bajo moderno o el bajo". La palabra aparece, en el uso musical, en 1 Crónicas 15:21, al enumerar varios nombres de músicos, "Mattithiah y Elipheleh, etc., con arpas en el Sheminith para sobresalir". margen, "u octavo". También se encuentra en el título de Salmo 12:1: no aparece en ninguna otra parte en referencia a la música en

Psalms 60:6 — promesa pública o la garantía de que lo que había prometido ciertamente cumpliría. Dios había hecho promesas con respecto a la tierra de Canaán o Palestina, como un país para ser puesto en posesión de Abraham y su posteridad. Génesis 12:7; Génesis 13:15; Génesis 17:8; Salmo 105:8. La promesa original del regalo de esa tierra, hecha a Abraham bajo el nombre general de Canaán Génesis 12:7, abarcaba todo el territorio desde el río (que separaba la tierra de Egipto) hasta el Éufrates: “A tu semilla,

Isaiah 35:7 — Rusia. No tenemos palabras en inglés para expresarlo. La palabra francesa por la cual se designa comúnmente es espejismo. Es causada por la refracción de los rayos del sol, cuya explicación se puede encontrar en el Edin. Enciclopedia, vol. xiv. pp. 753-755. A menudo lo describen los viajeros, y se menciona en el Corán, capítulo xxiv. 39: Las obras de los no creyentes son como el serab en una llanura, Que el sediento toma como agua; Hasta que llega a él, y descubre que no es así. La nota del Sr. Sale

Isaiah 59:21 — versículo, Yahweh declara lo que haría con respecto al pacto que se establecería con su pueblo. "En lo que a mí respecta, celebraré un pacto con ellos y con sus hijos". Este es mi pacto con ellos - (Compare las notas en Isaías 42:6; Isaías 49:8; Isaías 54:1). El pacto al que se hace referencia aquí es el hecho con las personas bajo el Mesías. En aspectos importantes difería de lo que se hizo con el pueblo judío bajo Moisés. La palabra "pacto" aquí es evidentemente equivalente, como es comúnmente, cuando

Acts 28:31 — Preaching the kingdom of God - See the notes on Acts 20:25.With all confidence - Openly and boldly, without anyone to hinder him. It is known also that Paul was not unsuccessful even when a prisoner at Rome. Several persons were converted by his preaching, even in the court of the emperor. The things which

1 Corinthians 9:16 — a very difficult passage, and has been very variously understood by interpreters. The general scope and purpose of the passage is to show what was the ground of his “glorying,” or of his hope of” reward” in preaching the gospel. In 1 Corinthians 9:15. He had intimated that he had cause of” glorying,” and that that cause was one which he was determined no one should take away. In this passage 1 Corinthians 9:16-18. He states what that was. He says, it was not simply that he preached; for there was

2 Corinthians 5:15 — especially when they turn a deaf ear to the appeals which are made for the diffusion of the gospel to the benighted and perishing.(4) When their main purpose is the aggrandizement of their own families, for their families are but a diffusion of self. And,(5) When they seek their own salvation only from selfish motives, and not from a desire to honor God. Multitudes are selfish even in their religion; and the main purpose which they have in view, is to promote their own objects, and not the honor of the

2 Corinthians 5:16 — there can be no reason to doubt that he partook of the common feelings of his countrymen and held in contempt the whole Gentile world. But his views were changed - so much changed as to make it proper to say that he was a new creature, 2 Corinthians 5:17. When converted, he did not confer with flesh and blood Galatians 1:16; and in the school of Christ, he had learned that if a man was his disciple, he must be willing to forsake father and mother. and sister and brother, and to hate his own life

Hebrews 7:28 — imperfect, and could not give peace to the conscience. There was need of some better system, and they all looked forward to it. But in the Lord Jesus, and in his work, there is absolute perfection. What he did was complete, and his office needs no change.(5) The office now is permanent. It does not change from hand to hand; Hebrews 7:23-24. He who sustains this office does not die, and we may ever apply to him and cast our cares on him. Men die; one generation succeeds another; but our High Priest is the

1 Peter 1:8 — absent, as when he is with us. The wide ocean that rolls between us and a child, does not diminish the ardour of our affection for him; and the Christian friend that has gone to heaven, we may love no less than when he sat with us at the fireside. (5) Millions, even hundreds of millions, have been led to love the Saviour, who have never seen him. They have seen - not with the physical eye, but with the eye of faith - the inimitable beauty of his character, and have been brought to love him with

1 Peter 2:8 — saved.(3) That there was another portion who, it was certain, would not embrace him.(4) That it was known that the appointment of the Lord Jesus as a Saviour would be the occasion of their rejecting him, and of their deeper and more aggravated condemnation.(5) That the arrangement was nevertheless made, with the understanding that all this would be so, and because it was best on the whole that it should be so, even though this consequence would follow. That is, it was better that the arrangement should be

1 Peter 4:3 — proper or not. Tyndale renders it, somewhat better: “drunkenness.” So Luther, “Trunkenheit.”Revellings - Rendered rioting in Romans 13:13. See the notes at that verse. The Greek word (κῶμος kōmos) occurs only here, and in Romans 13:13, and Galatians 5:21. It means feasting, revel; “a carousing or merrymaking after supper, the guests often sallying into the streets, and going through the city with torches, music, and songs in honor of Bacchus,” etc. Robinson, Lexicon. The word would apply to all such

2 Peter 1:19 — by the light of the sun. The apostle directs the mind onward to a period when all shall be clear - to that glorious time when the Saviour shall return to receive his people to himself in that heaven where all shall be light. Compare Revelation 21:23-25; Revelation 22:5. Meantime we should avail ourselves of all the light which we have, and should apply ourselves diligently to the study of the prophecies of the Old Testament which are still unfulfilled, and of those in the New Testament which direct

3 John 1:1 — denial of any obligation to recognize his instructions or commendations as binding. The idea seems to have been that the church was entirely independent, and might receive or reject any whom it pleased, though they were commended to them by an apostle. (5) In these circumstances, Gaius, as an individual, and against the action of the church, received and hospitably entertained these strangers, and aided them in the prosecution of their work. In this office of hospitality another member of the church,

Revelation 1:10 — strength (compare Numbers 24:4); 1 Samuel 19:24; Ezekiel 1:28; Daniel 10:8-10; Revelation 1:17), but such as any Christian may experience when in a high state of religious enjoyment. He was not yet under the prophetic ecstasy (compare Acts 10:10; Acts 11:5; Acts 22:17), but was, though in a lonely and barren island, and far away from the privileges of the sanctuary, permitted to enjoy, in a high degree, the consolations of religion - an illustration of the great truth that God can meet his people anywhere;

Revelation 3:17 — ἐληινὸς elēinos - rather means a pitiable state than one actually felt to be so. The meaning is, that their condition was one that was suited to excite pity or compassion; not that they were actually miserable. Compare the notes on 1 Corinthians 15:19.And poor - Notwithstanding all their boast of having enough. They really had not what was necessary to meet the actual needs of their nature, and, therefore, they were poor. Their worldly property could not meet the needs of their souls; and, with