Bible Commentaries

Isaiah 30:1 — people. First, it is no light offense, but wicked obstinacy, to disregard and even despise God’s government, and follow their own inclinations. But God had strictly forbidden them to enter into any alliance or league with the Egyptians. (Exodus 13:17; Deuteronomy 17:16.) There were chiefly two causes of this prohibition. One was general, and related to alliances and leagues with other nations; for God did not wish that his people should be corrupted by the superstitions of the Gentiles. (Exodus

Ezekiel 1:1 — this was a Jubilee year — it is probable, then, that this was the Jubilee. For it is said that Josiah celebrated the passover with such magnificent pomp and splendor, that there had been nothing like it since the time of Samuel. (2 Chronicles 35:18.) The conjecture which best explains this is, not that he celebrated the passover even with such magnificence, but that he was induced to do so by the peculiar occasion, when the people were restored and returned to their possessions, and the slaves

Ezekiel 1:1 — probable que este haya sido un año de Jubileo; es probable, entonces, que este haya sido el Jubileo. Porque se dice que Josías celebró la pascua con tan magnífica pompa y esplendor, que no había habido nada parecido desde la época de Samuel. ( 2 Crónicas 35:18.) La conjetura que mejor explica esto es, no que celebró la pascua incluso con tanta magnificencia, sino que fue inducido a hacerlo por la peculiar ocasión, cuando las personas fueron restauradas y devueltas a sus posesiones, y los esclavos fueron

Ezekiel 11:20 — by God’s Spirit, he calls us τὸ ποίημα , his fashioning or workmanship, and explains that we are created unto good works. (Ephesians 2:10.) To the same purpose is the language of the Psalm, (Psalms 100:3,) he made us, not we ourselves. For he is not treating here of that first creation by which we became men, but of that special grace by which we are born again by the Spirit of God. If therefore regeneration is a creation of man, whoever arrogates to

Ezekiel 11:20 — creadores: dado que cuando Pablo dice que nacemos de nuevo por el Espíritu de Dios, nos llama τὸ ποίημα, su forma o mano de obra, y explica que somos creados para buenas obras. ( Efesios 2:10.) Con el mismo propósito es el lenguaje del Salmo, (Salmo 100:3) nos hizo, no a nosotros mismos. Porque él no está tratando aquí de esa primera creación por la cual nos convertimos en hombres, sino de esa gracia especial por la cual nacemos de nuevo por el Espíritu de Dios. Si, por lo tanto, la regeneración es una

Daniel 9:25 — Vespasian. I confess this to be in accordance with the Jewish method of speech; instead of sixty-two and seven, they will say seven and sixty-two; thus putting the smaller number first. The years of man (says Moses) shall be twenty and a hundred, (Genesis 6:3) the Greeks and Latins would say, shall be a hundred and twenty years. I confess this to be the common phrase among the Hebrews; but here the Prophet is not relating the continuance of any series of years, as if he were treating of the life of a single

Daniel 9:25 — Vespasiano. Confieso que esto está de acuerdo con el método de habla judío; en lugar de sesenta y dos y siete, dirán siete y sesenta y dos; poniendo así el número más pequeño primero. Los años del hombre (dice Moisés) serán veinte y ciento, ( Génesis 6:3) dirían los griegos y latinos, serán ciento veinte años. Confieso que esta es la frase común entre los hebreos; pero aquí el Profeta no relata la continuidad de ninguna serie de años, como si tratara la vida de un hombre soltero, pero primero marca

Habakkuk 2:4 — confidence, when he finds that he has many auxiliaries according to the flesh, shall ever be agitated, and will at length find that there is nowhere rest, except the mind recumbs on God’s grace alone. We now understand the import of this clause. (30) It follows, but the just shall live by his faith. The Prophet, I have no doubt, does here place faith in opposition to all those defences by which men so blind themselves as to neglect God, and to seek no aid from him. As men therefore rely on what

Habakkuk 2:4 — cuando descubra que tiene muchos auxiliares según la carne, se agitará alguna vez, y al final descubrirá que no hay ningún lugar para descansar, excepto que la mente descansa solo en la gracia de Dios. Ahora entendemos la importancia de esta cláusula. (30) Sigue, pero el justo vivirá por su fe. El Profeta, no tengo dudas, aquí pone fe en oposición a todas esas defensas por las cuales los hombres se cegan tanto como para descuidar a Dios y no buscar ayuda de él. Como los hombres, por lo tanto, dependen

1 Corinthians overview — trivial, so that he appears to have had no intention of passing over any thing in them that was deserving of reproof. Besides, he must, in any other view, be regarded as wasting many words in disputing against those absurd teachers and prating orators. (30) He censures their ambition; he reproves them for transforming the gospel into human philosophy; he shows that they are destitute of the efficacy of the Spirit, inasmuch as they are taken up with mere ornaments of speech, and seek after a mere dead