Bible Commentaries

Exodus 20:12 — delivered, i. e. , the First Table embraces a summary of piety; and now the Law will begin to show how men ought to live with each other, otherwise one Table would have been enough, nor would God have divided his Law without a purpose. But whereas piety (3) and justice comprise the perfect rule for the direction of our lives, it was necessary to distinguish these two parts, that the people might understand the object of the Law, of which we shall again speak hereafter. Exodus 20:12.Honor thy father Although

Isaiah 1:1 — la palabra Tíbet, (מראה,) visión, se emplea. Para no multiplicar las citas, en un pasaje que se refiere a la profecía en general, el escritor dice que la palabra de Dios era preciosa, porque חזון, (chazon,) visión, era de ocurrencia rara. ( 1 Samuel 3:1.) Un poco después, la palabra מראה: (mar-ah) se emplea para denotar la visión por la cual Dios se reveló a Samuel. ( 1 Samuel 3:13.) Al distinguir entre dos métodos ordinarios de revelación, una visión y un sueño, Moisés habla de una visión (מראה)

Isaiah 16:3 — 3. Reunir un consejo. (252) Continúa con el mismo tema; porque si deseamos comprender correctamente este pasaje, debemos poner ante nuestras mentes la terrible ruina de los moabitas. Sus crímenes son recordados, para que todos puedan ver más claramente

Isaiah 35:10 — nadie se redimirá a sí mismo. Ahora, dado que esta redención es un regalo peculiar del reino de Cristo, se deduce que él es nuestro único libertador, como también lo atestigua la declaración, "Si el Hijo te hará libre, serás libre de verdad. ( Juan 8:36.) Sin embargo, no es suficiente que hayamos sido redimidos una vez; porque el diseño es que debemos morar en la Iglesia de Dios y progresar día a día. Como, por lo tanto, hemos sido liberados por Cristo, debemos trabajar con todas nuestras fuerzas

Lamentations 3:26 — declara que es bueno para nosotros aprender en silencio a esperar la salvación de Dios. Pero para expresar más claramente su mente, primero dice: esperará o esperará. Enseña la necesidad de paciencia, como también lo hace el Apóstol, en Hebreos 10:36; porque de lo contrario no puede haber fe. Por lo tanto, parece que donde no hay paciencia, ni siquiera hay una chispa de fe en el corazón del hombre; ¿Cómo es eso? porque esta es nuestra felicidad, esperar o esperar; y esperamos lo que está oculto.

Ezekiel 20:20 — sacramentos, y por lo tanto, que los sacramentos son efectivos a través de la fe. La indignidad del hombre no les resta nada, ya que siempre conservan su naturaleza. El bautismo es la fuente de la regeneración, aunque todo el mundo debería ser incrédulo ( Tito 3: 5 :) la Cena de Cristo es la comunicación de su cuerpo y sangre, ( 1 Corintios 10:16), aunque no hubo una chispa de fe en el mundo: pero no percibimos la gracia que se nos ofrece; y aunque las cosas espirituales siempre permanecen igual, no obtenemos

Daniel 12:5 — haber vestido a sus ángeles en cuerpos reales por el momento, y sin embargo, por ese motivo, no se convertirían en hombres. Porque Cristo tomó sobre Él nuestra carne y fue verdaderamente hombre, mientras que Él fue Dios manifestado en carne. ( 1 Timoteo 3:16.) Pero esto no es cierto para los ángeles, que recibieron solo un cuerpo temporal mientras realizaban los deberes de su cargo. No hay duda de esta afirmación: el nombre de "hombres" no puede pertenecer adecuadamente a los ángeles, pero se adapta

Luke 1:32 — 32. Será grandioso El ángel había dicho lo mismo acerca de Juan el Bautista, y sin embargo no tenía la intención de hacerlo igual a Cristo. Pero el Bautista es grande en su propia clase, mientras que la grandeza de Cristo se explica de inmediato como

Acts 15:3 — − 3.Being brought on the way by the Church. Whereas, by the common consent of the Church, there were joined to Paul and Barnabas companions, who might, for duty’s sake, conduct them, we may thereby gather, that all the godly were on their side; and

Acts 26:8 — Therefore, seeing it is a mystery far surpassing man’s wit, let the faithful remember how far the infinite power of God doth reach, and not what they themselves comprehend; as the same Paul teacheth in the third chapter to the Philippians ( Philippians 3:21). For when he hath said that our vile bodies shall be made like to the glorious body of Christ, he addeth immediately, “according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.” But men are for the most part

Romans 15:20 — succeeded them, had to strengthen and amplify the building raised up by them. (456) He calls that another’s foundation, which had been laid by the hand of another: otherwise Christ is the only stone on which the Church is founded. See 1 Corinthians 3:11; and Ephesians 2:20 (456) The participle, “striving,” rendered annitens by [Calvin ] and by [Erasmus ], isφιλοτιμούμενος, which means to strive honorably:

Romans 2:3 — 3.And thinkest thou, O man, etc. As rhetoricians teach us, that we ought not to proceed to give strong reproof before the crime be proved, Paul may seem to some to have acted unwisely here for having passed so severe a censure, when he had not yet proved

Romans 4:2 — 2.For if Abraham, etc. This is an incomplete argument, (131) which may be made in this form — “If Abraham was justified by works, he might justly glory: but he had nothing for which he could glory before God; then he was not justified by works.” Thus the clause but not before God, is the minor

1 Corinthians 7:16 — condition but that they may be brought to believe. They are dead, it is true, but God can even raise the dead. So long, therefore, as there remains any hope of doing good, and the pious wife knows not but that she may by her holy conversation (1 Peter 3:1) bring back her husband into the way, (404) she ought to try every means before leaving him; for so long as a man’s salvation is doubtful, it becomes us to be prepared rather to hope the best. As to his saying, however, that a husband may be

2 Corinthians 8:3 — 3.To their power, and even beyond their power. When he says that they were willing of themselves, he means that they were, of their own accord, so well prepared for the duty, that they needed no exhortation. It was a great thing — to strive up to

Galatians 3:22 — does he so often pronounce that we are lost? It is that we may not perish by everlasting destruction, but, struck and confounded by such a dreadful sentence, may by faith seek Christ, through whom we “pass from death into life.” (1 John 3:14.) By a figure of speech, (μετωνυμία,) in which the thing containing is put for the thing contained, the promise denotes that which is promised.

Colossians 2:3 — 3.In whom are all the treasures. The expression in quo (in whom, or in which) may either have a reference collectively to everything he has said as to the acknowledgment of the mystery, or it may relate simply to what came immediately before, namely,

1 Thessalonians 4:1 — reminds them in what manner they had been instructed, and bids them aim at this with their whole might. Now, there is a law that is here enjoined upon us — that, forgetting the things that are behind, we always aim at farther progress, (Philippians 3:13) and pastors ought also to make this their endeavor. Now, as to his beseeching, when he might rightfully enjoin — it is a token of humanity and modesty which pastors ought to imitate, that they may, if possible, allure people to kindness, rather

1 Timothy 2:13 — 13For Adam was first created He assigns two reasons why women ought to be subject to men; because not only did God enact this law at the beginning, but he also inflicted it as a punishment on the woman. (Genesis 3:16.) He accordingly shews that, although

Hebrews 5:13 — 13.For every one who uses milk, or, who partakes of milk, etc. He means those who from tenderness or weakness as yet refuse solid doctrine; for otherwise he who is grown up is not averse to milk. But he reproves here an infancy in understanding, such as