Bible Commentaries

Isaiah 28:16 — 16.Therefore thus saith the Lord God. Isaiah now comforts the godly, and threatens against the wicked such punishment as they deserved. In the first instance, he brings forward consolation, because the godly were a laughingstock to those crafty men, as

Isaiah 28:16 — 16. Por lo tanto, dice el Señor Dios. Isaías ahora consuela a los piadosos y amenaza contra los impíos el castigo que merecían. En primera instancia, él trae consuelo, porque los piadosos eran un hazmerreír para esos hombres astutos, como vemos en la

Amos 1:1 — él solo. Estas dos cosas entonces, están de acuerdo, que las profecías que siguen son las palabras de Amós y que fueron palabras reveladas a él desde arriba; para la palabra חזה, chese, que Amos usa, propiamente significa, para ver por revelación; (16) y estas revelaciones se llamaron profecías. Pero él dice que estaba entre los pastores de Tekoa. Esta era una ciudad mala y poco antes había estado rodeada de muros y había sido alguna vez una aldea. Luego no menciona su país, porque fue celebrado,

Luke 1:1 — committed to them should be honestly handed down to posterity. With this view therefore, Luke dedicates his Gospel to Theophilus, that he might undertake the faithful preservation of it; and the same duty Paul enjoins and recommends to Timothy, (2 Timothy 1:14.) 1.Forasmuch as many. He assigns a reason for writing which, one would think, ought rather to have dissuaded him from writing. To compose a history, which had already employed many authors, was unnecessary labor, at least if they had faithfully

Luke 1:1 — debería ser honestamente transmitida a la posteridad. Con este punto de vista, por lo tanto, Lucas dedica su Evangelio a Teófilo, para que pueda emprender la preservación fiel de él; y el mismo deber que Pablo ordena y recomienda a Timoteo, ( 2 Timoteo 1:14.) 1. Por muchos. Asigna una razón para escribir que, uno pensaría, debería haberlo disuadido de escribir. Para componer una historia, que ya había empleado a muchos autores, era un trabajo innecesario, al menos si habían cumplido fielmente su deber.

Romans 16:21 — 21. Timothy, etc. Los saludos que él registra, sirvieron en parte para fomentar la unión entre aquellos que estaban muy separados, y en parte para hacer saber a los romanos que sus hermanos se suscribieron a la Epístola; No es que Pablo necesitara el

1 Corinthians 1:20 — scribe? This expression of triumph is added for the purpose of illustrating the Prophet’s testimony. Paul has not taken this sentiment from Isaiah, as is commonly thought, but speaks in his own person. For the passage which they point to (Isaiah 33:18) has nothing corresponding to the subject in hand, or nearly approaching to it. For in that passage, while he promises to the Jews deliverance from the yoke of Sennacherib, that he may magnify the more this great blessing from God, he shows how miserable

1 Corinthians 7:23 — 23.Yea are bought with a price We had these words in the preceding chapter, (1 Corinthians 6:20,) but for a different purpose. As to the word price, I have stated there, what is my view of it. The sum is this, that he exhorts servants, indeed, not to be anxious as to their condition, but wishes them rather to take heed not to

2 Corinthians 10:5 — brought into subjection to him. For so long as we rest in our own judgment, and are wise in our own estimation, we are far from having made any approach to the doctrine of Christ. Hence we must set out with this, that he who is wise must become a fool, (1 Corinthians 3:18,) that is, we must give up our own understanding, and renounce the wisdom of the flesh, and thus we must present our minds to Christ empty that he may fill them. Now the form of expression must be observed, when he says, that he brings

2 Corinthians 3:13 — 13.Not as Moses Paul is not reasoning as to the intention of Moses. For as it was his office, to publish the law to his people, so, there can be no doubt that he was desirous, that its true meaning should be apprehended by all, and that he did not intentionally

2 Corinthians 3:7 — reconcilian con Dios, a través de la libre remisión de sus pecados, es el ministerio de la justicia y, en consecuencia, de la vida también. Aquí, sin embargo, surge una pregunta: como el evangelio es el olor de muerte a muerte para algunos ( 2 Corintios 2:16) y como Cristo es una roca de ofensa, y una piedra de tropiezo puesta para la ruina de muchos, (391) ( Lucas 2:34; 1 Pedro 2:8), ¿por qué representa, como perteneciente exclusivamente para la ley, ¿qué es común a ambos? En caso de que responda que

2 Corinthians 9:11 — 11.May be enriched unto all bountifulness. Again he makes use of the term bountifulness, to express the nature of true liberality — when, casting all our care upon God, (1 Peter 5:7,) we cheerfully lay out what belongs to us for whatever purposes

Galatians 2:6 — are admitted, but in the spiritual kingdom of Christ they can have no place. There is plausibility in the statement, but it is in reference to worldly government, that it is said, “Ye shall not respect persons in judgment,.”(Deuteronomy 1:17.) But I do not enter into that argument, for it does not affect this passage. Paul simply means, that the honorable rank which the apostles had attained did not prevent him from being called by God, and raised, all at once, from the lowest condition

Ephesians 4:2 — subdued, and mildness acquired; and it will be equally vain to discourse of meekness, till we have begun with humility. Forbearing one another in love. This agrees with what is elsewhere taught, that “love suffereth long and is kind.” (1 Corinthians 13:4.) Where love is strong and prevalent, we shall perform many acts of mutual forbearance.

Ephesians 5:1 — 1.Be ye therefore followers. The same principle is followed out and enforced by the consideration that children ought to be like their father. He reminds us that we are the children of God, and that therefore we ought, as far as possible, to resemble

Colossians 1:24 — por tu cuenta es agradable para mí, porque no la sufro en vano". (330) De la misma manera, en su Primera Epístola a los Tesalonicenses, dice que se regocijó en todas las necesidades y aflicciones, en razón de lo que él había escuchado sobre su fe. ( 1 Tesalonicenses 3:6.) Y llena lo que falta. La partícula y yo la entendemos como significado, porque él asigna una razón por la que está alegre en sus sufrimientos, porque es en esto un socio con Cristo, y no puede desearse nada más feliz que esta asociación.

1 Thessalonians 4:14 — 14For if we believe. He assumes this axiom of our faith, that Christ was raised up from the dead, that we might be partakers of the same resurrection: from this he infers, that we shall live with him eternally. This doctrine, however, as has been stated

1 Timothy 4:1 — 1Now the Spirit plainly saith He had industriously admonished Timothy about many things; and now he shews the necessity, because it is proper to provide against the danger which the Holy Spirit forewarns to be fast approaching, namely, that false teachers

Hebrews 3:5 — second difference is, that to Moses was committed a doctrine to which he, in common with others, was to submit; but Christ, though he put on the form of a servant, is yet Master and Lord, to whom all ought to be subject; for, as we found in Hebrews 1:2, he is constituted heir of all things. For a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after, or which were afterwards to be said or declared. I explain this simply in this way, — that Moses, while a herald of that doctrine which was

Hebrews 8:1 — 1.Now of the things, etc. That readers might know the subject he handles, he reminds them that his object is to prove that Christ’s priesthood, by which that of the law had been abolished, is spiritual. He, indeed, proceeds with the same argument;