Bible Commentaries

Genesis 31:48 — THE HEAP OF WITNESS ‘And Laban said, This heap is a heap of witness between me and thee this day.’ Genesis 31:48 I. God had appeared to Laban the previous night and warned him against doing any harm to Jacob. Compelled thus to abandon his real object, he can but explain the hot haste with which he has pursued his nephew, at such a loss of time and at so busy

2 Kings 6:16 — THE CHRISTIAN HAS MORE FRIENDS THAN FOES ‘Feat not; for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.’ 2 Kings 6:16 From this story we may learn a lesson of great encouragement; and that is, that the Christian has more friends than foes in his daily warfare. For his life is a warfare. ‘Fight the good fight of faith’; ‘Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus

Deuteronomy 6:11 — ‘WHAT HAST THOU THAT THOU HAST NOT RECEIVED?’ ‘Houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not.’ Deuteronomy 6:11 In the chapters of Deuteronomy which we read to-day, Moses is doing for the Israelites as a nation what we might do for ourselves or for others in respect of our smaller lives—helping them to anticipate experience, to paint beforehand their coming

Mark 13:1-2 — his disciples saith unto Him, Master, behold, what manner of stones and what manner of buildings! And Jesus said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left here one stone upon another, which shall not be thrown down.’ Mark 13:1-2. R.V. That Temple in Zion was the symbol of the national life, and not less of the ecclesiastical life, which found there its central expression. Our Saviour was pronouncing sentence on the Jewish Church and nation, and He was doing so on the

Mark 13:1-2 — CONVENCIONAL Y LO MORAL 'Y saliendo él del templo, uno de sus discípulos le dijo: Maestro, he aquí, ¡qué tipo de piedras y qué tipo de edificios! Y Jesús le dijo: ¿Ves estos grandes edificios? no quedará aquí piedra sobre piedra que no sea derribada. Marco 13:1 . RV Ese Templo de Sión era el símbolo de la vida nacional, y no menos de la vida eclesiástica, que encontraba allí su expresión central. Nuestro Salvador estaba pronunciando sentencia sobre la Iglesia y la nación judía, y lo estaba haciendo al borde

Mark 4:26-29 — city of God. IV. The harvest.—If the principles at work in us, the powers that are most dominant, are Godlike, there will certainly come the harvest, and ‘then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.’ Illustrations (1) ‘This parable is found only in the Gospel of Mark, and is one of the most brilliant examples of the perfect naturalness of our Lord’s teaching, and of the way in which He shows the underlying connection between the two worlds, natural and spiritual.

Mark 4:26-29 — ciudad de Dios. IV. La cosecha . Si los principios que operan en nosotros, los poderes más dominantes, son semejantes a Dios, ciertamente vendrá la cosecha, y 'entonces los justos resplandecerán como el sol en el reino de su Padre'. Ilustraciones (1) 'Esta parábola se encuentra solo en el Evangelio de Marcos, y es uno de los ejemplos más brillantes de la perfecta naturalidad de la enseñanza de nuestro Señor, y de la forma en que Él muestra la conexión subyacente entre los dos mundos, natural y

John 1:18 — EL HIJO ÚNICO ENGANADO 'El Hijo unigénito, que está en el seno del Padre'. Juan 1:18 Así escribe Juan en esta gloriosa introducción a su Evangelio. Está a punto de contar, en los capítulos siguientes, lo que hizo, dijo y sufrió Jesucristo Hombre; cómo llamó a sus discípulos, cómo se sentó cansado junto al pozo, cómo lloró junto a

John 12:29 — VOCES DE DIOS 'Por tanto, el pueblo que estaba allí ... Un ángel le habló'. Juan 12:29 Conocemos al grupo que no reconoció la voz de Dios: judíos, griegos, sacerdotes incrédulos, etc. No les llegó ninguna voz. Todavía hay voces de Dios que nos hablan y, según nuestra disposición espiritual, las escuchamos o las dejamos pasar. I.

John 13:1 — AMOR PERFECTO "Habiendo amado a los suyos que están en el mundo, los amó hasta el fin". Juan 13:1 El margen de la RV dice, 'al máximo': 'Él los amaba al máximo'. I. Las grandes crisis, ya sean de gozo o de tristeza, revelan el carácter y la disposición — Mañana Cristo iba a morir. Era la hora de la tarde y ¡oh! ¡Qué mañana iba a amanecer ese

John 5:39 — trust rather than to investigate. II. In this somewhat free use of Scripture for devotional purposes, we have the warrant of Scripture itself.—The accurate student of Scripture would be perfectly right in saying that the words spoken to Joshua ( Joshua 1:5), ‘I will not fail thee nor forsake thee,’ applied to him as the successor of Moses and leader of Israel, and to him alone. But yet in Hebrews 13:5 they are employed to teach us contentment, ‘Be content with such things as ye have; for He hath said,

John 5:39-40 — este uso un tanto libre de las Escrituras para propósitos devocionales, tenemos la garantía de la Escritura misma . El estudiante exacto de las Escrituras estaría perfectamente en lo cierto al decir que las palabras que se le dijeron a Josué ( Josué 1:5 ), 'No te fallaré ni te desampararé ', se le aplicó como sucesor de Moisés y líder de Israel, y solo a él. Pero, sin embargo, en Hebreos 13:5 se emplean para enseñarnos el contentamiento: 'Contentaos con las cosas que tenéis; porque ha dicho: No

1 Corinthians 1:4-8 — enriquecidos por Él, en toda expresión y en todo conocimiento; así como el testimonio de Cristo fue confirmado en vosotros, para que no os quedéis atrás en ningún don; esperando la venida de nuestro Señor Jesucristo, quien también os confirmará hasta el fin. 1 Corintios 1:4 El testimonio de Cristo, la evidencia, es decir, que los cristianos de Corinto eran discípulos de Cristo de hecho y de verdad, se confirma por la prueba dada en su vida y en su conversación, de que habían recibido los dones de la gracia,

1 Corinthians 6:20 — SOBRE GLORIFICAR A DIOS 'Habéis sido comprados por precio; por tanto, glorifica a Dios. 1 Corintios 6:20 Observe algunas de las formas en que se pide al cristiano que promueva la gloria de su Dios. I. El significado principal de la palabra 'gloria' es opinión : la estimación formada de una persona por otros. El verbo 'glorificar' significará

Judges 13:24-25 — THE HEBREW HERCULES ‘And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.’ Judges 13:24-25 The lives of the saints in Scripture, and especially in the Old Testament, are entirely unlike our modern religious biographies. Scripture describes no faultless monsters. Its heroes have little in common with the saints whose images we sometimes

Ruth 3:11 — A NOBLE KINSMAN ‘I will do to thee all that thou requirest.’ Ruth 3:11 It was the Eastern custom for the farmer to remain all night on the threshingfloor, partly to protect his goods, and partly to make the most of the evening breeze for the purpose of winnowing. I. Boaz, industrious and prudent as he was, slept out

2 Samuel 12:4 — CHRISTIAN CHARITY ‘And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him.’ 2 Samuel 12:4 The mixture of gold and clay of which our nature is composed is nowhere so strikingly displayed as in the constant tendency of men to conceive lofty purposes, and then to attain them by mean and sordid methods. The high impulse and the low self-indulgent

2 Samuel 18:33 — ‘THE CHAMBER OVER THE GATE.’ ‘The king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept.’ 2 Samuel 18:33 We cannot enlarge upon this scene without injuring its matchless pathos. Let us leave David in ‘the chamber over the gate,’ to a sorrow too sacred for mere words. I. The father is more than the king.—‘The victory that day was turned into mourning.’

2 Samuel 4:12 — THE BLOODY PATH TO A THRONE ‘The head of Ish-bosheth.’ 2 Samuel 4:12 Abner had, against his better conviction, maintained his partisan position against David and continued his hostile efforts against him, and it was only after the overthrow of his hitherto unlimited power and the violence done to his self-esteem and

2 Samuel 6:9 — before were banished now from Obed-edom’s home. And the result of it all was that Obed-edom prospered, and began to flourish like a palm tree by the river, and it all dated from that memorable hour when he received the ark into his home. Illustrations (1) ‘There is a story of a stranger who came to a poor cottage, and who said, “There is a treasure in this cottage.” And the cottars searched for it, till on a dusty shelf they lit on an old and long-neglected Bible. That Bible, studied again, became a