Bible Commentaries

Psalms 69:28 — purpose of God, by which he has predestinated his own people to salvation. God, it is certain, is absolutely immutable; and, further, we know that those who are adopted to the hope of salvation were written before the foundation of the world, (Ephesians 1:4;) but as God’s eternal purpose of election is incomprehensible, it is said, in accommodation to the imperfection of the human understanding, that those whom God openly, and by manifest signs, enrols among his people, are written. On the other

Isaiah 1:1 — 1.The vision of Isaiah The Hebrew word חזון (chazon,) though it is derived from חזה, (chazah,) he saw, and literally is a vision, yet commonly signifies a prophecy. For when the Scripture makes mention

Isaiah 21:1 — 1.The burden of the desert of the sea. The Prophet, after having taught that their hope ought to be placed, not on the Egyptians, but on the mercy of God alone, and after having foretold that calamities would come on the nations on whose favor they relied,

Matthew 16:18 — 18. Y te digo a ti. Con estas palabras, Cristo declara cuán deleitado está con la confesión de Pedro, ya que le otorga una recompensa tan grande. Porque, aunque ya le había dado a su discípulo, Simón, el nombre de Pedro, ( Mateo 10:2; Juan 1:42) y,

Luke 7:29 — sagacity amounts to nothing more than mere vanity. Accordingly, as Paul says, “God hath chosen that part which is weak and foolish in the eyes of the world, that he may cast down from its height whatever appears to be mighty and wise,” (1 Corinthians 1:27.) Our duty is to prefer this foolishness of God, to use Paul’s expression, (1 Corinthians 1:25,) to all the display of human wisdom. Justified God. This is a very remarkable expression. Those who respectfully embrace the Son

Luke 7:29 — juicio de los hombres, cuya agudeza y sagacidad no es más que mera vanidad. En consecuencia, como dice Pablo, "Dios ha elegido esa parte que es débil y necia a los ojos del mundo, para que pueda arrojar desde su altura lo que parezca poderoso y sabio" ( 1 Corintios 1:27 .) Nuestro deber es preferir esta necedad de Dios, usar la expresión de Pablo, ( 1 Corintios 1:25) a toda la exhibición de sabiduría humana. Dios justificado Esta es una expresión muy notable. Se dice que aquellos que abrazan respetuosamente

John 10:40 — 40. Se fue más allá de Jordania. Cristo pasó más allá de Jordania, para que no tuviera que luchar continuamente sin ninguna ventaja. Por lo tanto, nos ha enseñado, con su ejemplo, que debemos aprovechar las oportunidades cuando ocurran. En cuanto al lugar de su retiro, el lector puede consultar las observaciones que he hecho en el Capítulo 1, versículo 28. (305)

Acts 20:34 — keep; for he did not behave himself so loftily and lordlike, that he did take that away which the Lord had granted to his servants, but doth rather in many places maintain their right, which is, that they be maintained with that which is common, Matthew 10:10; 1 Corinthians 9:14; Galatians 6:6; 1 Timothy 5:17; Philippians 4:10; 2 Corinthians 11:8. Whereunto belongeth that, that he suffered many churches to minister unto him food and raiment. Neither did he only freely receive wages for the work which

Romans 12:6 — peculiar de explicarla, en la medida en que todas las antiguas profecías y todos los oráculos de Dios se han completado en Cristo y en su evangelio. . En este sentido, Paul lo toma cuando dice: "Deseo que hables en lenguas, sino que profetices" ( 1 Corintios 14:5;) "En parte sabemos y en parte profetizamos" ( 1 Corintios 13:9.) Y no parece que Pablo quisiera mencionar aquí esas gracias milagrosas por las cuales Cristo al principio ilustró su evangelio; pero, por el contrario, encontramos que

Romans 15:11 — Хвалите Господа, все язычники. Данное место вполне подходит. Ибо как будут хвалить Бога те, кто не познал Его величие? В этом случае они могут лишь призывать Его как непознанного. Итак, имеется наилучшее пророчество для подтверждения призвания язычников. И это еще лучше явствует из приведенной там причины: ибо пророк велит благодарить Бога за истину и милость, Psalms 117:1.

Romans 6:17 — 17.But thanks be to God, etc. This is an application of the similitude of the present subject. Though they were only to be reminded that they were not now the servants of sin, he yet adds a thanksgiving; first, that he might teach them, that this was

Romans 9:5 — to be descended from saints and men beloved of God, since God promised to the godly fathers mercy with regard to their children, even to thousand generations, and especially in the words addressed to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as we find in Genesis 17:4, and in other passages. It matters not, that this by itself, when separated from the fear of God and holiness of life, is vain and useless: for we find the same to have been the case as to worship and glory, as it is evident everywhere in the prophets,

2 Corinthians 5:7 — 7.For we walk by faith (Εἰδος) I have here rendered aspectum , (sight,) because few understood the meaning of the word species , (appearance.) (520) He states the reason, why it is that we are now absent from the Lord — because we do not as yet

Ephesians 2:12 — 12. Que en ese momento estaban sin Cristo. Ahora declara que los efesios habían sido excluidos, no solo de la insignia externa, sino de todo lo necesario para la salvación y la felicidad de los hombres. Como Cristo es el fundamento de la esperanza y

Ephesians 4:1 — entirely of practical exhortations. Mutual agreement is the first subject, in the course of which a discussion is introduced respecting the government of the church, as having been framed by our Lord for the purpose of maintaining unity among Christians. 1.I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord. His imprisonment, which might have been supposed more likely to render him despised, is appealed to, as we have already seen, for a confirmation of his authority. It was the seal of that embassy with which he had

Colossians 1:15 — 15.Who is the image of the invisible God. He mounts up higher in discoursing as to the glory of Christ. He calls him the image of the invisible God, meaning by this, that it is in him alone that God, who is otherwise invisible, is manifested to us, in

Titus 1:3 — second exposition is a little forced, in other respects I should give it the preference. Thus John says, “What we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what our hands have handled of the Word of life; and the life was manifested.” (1 John 1:1.) I therefore prefer what is a simple meaning, that God hath manifested the word concerning the life by the preaching of the gospel. The preaching, of which he speaks, is the gospel proclaimed, as the chief thing which we hear in it is —

Hebrews 11:21 — 21.By faith Jacob, etc. It was the Apostle’s object to attribute to faith whatever was worthy of remembrance in the history of the people: as, however, it would have been tedious to recount everything, he selected a few things out of many, such at

1 Peter 1:22 — deberían hacer. El participio está en tiempo pasado, pero puede expresarse como un gerundio, "purificando, etc.". El significado es que sus almas no serían capaces de recibir gracia hasta que fueran purificadas, y por eso nuestra impureza es demostrado. (17) Pero para que no parezca atribuirnos el poder de purificar nuestras almas, agrega de inmediato, a través del Espíritu; como si hubiera dicho: "Tus almas deben ser purificadas, pero como no podéis hacer esto, ofrécelas a Dios, para que él pueda quitar

1 Peter 4:6 — dead suffer destruction in their flesh, and are deemed condemned as to the outward man, yet they cease not to live with God, and that in their spirit, because Christ quickens them by his Spirit. But we ought to add what Paul teaches us in Romans 8:10, that the Spirit is life; and hence it will be, that he will at length absorb the relics of death which still cleave to us. The sum of what he says is, that though the condition of the dead in the flesh is worse, according to man, yet it is enough