Bible Commentaries

Genesis 20:9 — 9. Entonces Abimelec llamó a Abraham. Hay quienes suponen que el rey de Gerar no presentó una queja contra Abraham, sino que más bien declaró su arrepentimiento. Sin embargo, si consideramos sus palabras de manera justa, encontramos una confesión mezclada

Psalms 32:9 — 9.Be not like the horse or mule. David now briefly explains the amount of the counsel which he formerly said he would give. He exhorts all to learn with quietness, to lay aside stubbornness, and to put on the spirit of meekness. There is much wisdom,

Psalms 44:9 — 9.Nevertheless thou hast abhorred us Here follows a complaint, in which they bewail their present miseries and extreme calamity. There is here described such a change as showed not only that God had ceased to exercise towards them his accustomed favor,

Isaiah 23:18 — delante del Señor". ( Números 3:1.) Se puede decir lo mismo de todos los ministros de la Iglesia. Pero como todos los creyentes, de cualquier rango que sean, pertenecen al santuario de Dios y han sido hechos por Cristo "un sacerdocio real" ( 1 Pedro 2:9; Apocalipsis 1:6,) para que puedan estar en la presencia de Dios, por lo que de buena gana considero que este pasaje se relaciona con toda la "familia de la fe" ( Gálatas 6:10) a quien se debe prestar especial atención; porque Pablo los sostiene como

Isaiah 37:22 — scorn the defencelessness of a wretched people, as if the aid of heaven had been of no avail. Thus he censures the blindness of Sennacherib, in disregarding God and haughtily despising an afflicted Church. Cities are frequently called daughters. (Psalms 9:14.) Sometimes also, as we have formerly seen, delicate cities are called virgins. (Isaiah 1:8.) But here he intended to express the weakness of the city of Jerusalem, because she was like an orphan and destitute virgin, who was insulted by this base

Zechariah 12:13 — que realizó, fueron varios años posteriores al momento en que se entregó esta profecía. El breve relato, dado en los capítulos noveno y décimo de Ezra, claramente insinúa un estado de cosas similar a lo que se describe aquí. Ver especialmente Esdras 9:1; y los nombres de los que habían transgredido, Esdras 10:20. La línea sacerdotal de Leví y los de orden inferior se mencionan, y también los "de Israel", denominados "príncipes y gobernantes" en Esdras 9:2. Por lo tanto, vemos una razón para la

Matthew 12:42 — 42.The queen of the south. As Ethiopia lies in a southerly direction from Judea, I willingly concur with Josephus and other writers, who assert that she was the queen of Ethiopia. In sacred history she is called the queen of Sheba, (2 Chronicles 9:1.) We must not suppose this Sheba to be the country of Saba, which rather lay toward the east, but a town situated in Meroe, an island on the Nile, which was the metropolis of the kingdom. Here, too, we must attend to the points of contrast. A woman

Matthew 26:38 — he was unacquainted with their weakness, but in order that they might afterwards be more ashamed of their carelessness. This phrase expresses a deadly wound of grief; as if he had said, that he fainted, or was half-dead, with sorrow. Jonah (Jonah 4:9) makes use of a similar phrase in replying to the Lord; I am angry even to death. I advert to this, because some of the ancient writers, in handling this passage with a misapplication of ingenuity, philosophize in this way, that the soul of Christ was

Matthew 9:22 — Matthew 9:22.Take courage, my daughter. This expression shows the weakness of her faith for, had there been no impropriety in her trembling, Christ would not have corrected it by exhorting her to take courage Yet, at the same time, he commends her faith; and

Matthew 9:35 — Matthew 9:35.And Jesus went about This statement is made by way of anticipating an objection, and is intended to inform us that the whole ministry of Christ is not minutely described: for he was constantly employed in the discharge of his office; that is, in

Deuteronomy 16:9 — 9.Seven weeks shalt thou number. It must be observed that the Passover fell in a part of the year when the harvests were beginning to ripen; and consequently the first-fruits, of which I treated under the First Commandment, were then offered. Seven weeks

Luke 9:60 — Luke 9:60.But go thou and proclaim the kingdom of God. Matthew has only the words, Follow me: but Luke states more fully the reason why he was called, which was, that he might be a minister and preacher of the Gospel. Had he remained in a private station,

Acts 5:9 — 9.To tempt the Spirit. He uttereth the same thing in other words which he had said before; to wit, that they did mock God unreverently and contemptibly. But he said that they tempted the Spirit, because they had cunningly packed their fraud, as if the

Romans 6:9 — 9.Death no more rules over him, etc. He seems to imply that death once ruled over Christ; and indeed when he gave himself up to death for us, he in a manner surrendered and subjected himself to its power; it was however in such a way that it was impossible

1 Corinthians 12:21 — are the more necessary: hence, with a view to the safety of the body, they must not be despised.” He makes use of the term weaker here, to mean despised, as in another passage, when he says that he glories in his infirmities, (2 Corinthians 12:9,) he expresses, under this term, those things which rendered him contemptible and abject.

2 Corinthians 2:9 — 9.For I had written to you also for this purpose. He anticipates an objection, that they might bring forward. “What then did you mean, when you were so very indignant, because we had not inflicted punishment upon him? From being so stern a judge,

2 Timothy 2:5 — or two conflicts. He borrows a comparison from wrestlers, not one of whom obtains the prize till he has been victorious in the end. Thus he says: “In a race all run, but one obtaineth the prize;run so that ye may obtain.” (1 Corinthians 9:24.) If any man, therefore, wearied with the conflict, immediately withdraw from the arena to enjoy repose, he will be condemned for indolence instead of being crowned. Thus, because Christ wishes us to strive during our whole life, he who gives way

Philemon 1:14 — 14.That thy benefit might not be by constraint. This is drawn from the general rule, that no sacrifices are acceptable to God but those which are freely offered. Paul speaks of almsgiving in the same manner. (2 Corinthians 9:7.)Τό ἀγαθον is here put for “acts of kindness,” and willingness is contrasted with constraint, when there is no other opportunity of putting to the test a generous and cheerful act of the will;

Hebrews 6:9 — 9.But we are persuaded, etc. As the preceding sentences were like thunderbolts, by which readers might have been struck dead, it was needful to mitigate this severity. He therefore says now, that he did not speak in this strain, as though he entertained

1 Peter 1:5 — kept by faith; and that though we are thus nigh to death, we are yet safe under the guardianship of faith. But as faith itself, through the infirmity of the flesh, often quails, we might be always anxious about the morrow, were not the Lord to aid us. (9) And, indeed, we see that under the Papacy a diabolical opinion prevails, that we ought to doubt our final perseverance, because we are uncertain whether we shall be tomorrow in the same state of grace. But Peter did not thus leave us in suspense;