Bible Commentaries

Genesis 1:26 — LA DIVINA IMAGEN EN EL HOMBRE "Y Dios dijo: Hagamos al hombre a nuestra imagen". Génesis 1:26 No es exagerado decir que la redención misma, con todas sus gracias y todas sus glorias, encuentra su explicación y su razón en la creación. El misterio, de hecho, nos acosa por todos lados. Hay un misterio insoluble: la entrada, la existencia del

Psalms 117:1 — THE CRY OF FAITH AND JOY ‘I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.’ Psalms 117:1 We shall never, I suppose, know from whose lips and hearts this cry of faith and joy first sprang. One thing is clear—there has been a great danger threatening the very life of a man or a nation. There has been more than danger—there has been the

Jeremiah 51:64 — ‘INTO THE BOTTOM, AS A STONE’ ‘Thus shall Babylon sink.’ Jeremiah 51:64 I. In every age of the world Babylon has had its counterpart.—Babel’s tower cast its shadow over the primitive races of mankind. Over against Israel, Nineveh; over against Jerusalem, Babylon; over against the Church, Rome; over against the New Jerusalem,

Daniel 7:12-14 — And there was given Him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve Him: His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.’ Daniel 7:12-14 We find ourselves here in a part of the Bible which is to most of us unfamiliar and puzzling: the visions of the Book of Daniel. They are like transformation scenes—grand, cloudy, highly coloured: they are like allegories with a forgotten key.

Amos 8:11 — THE USES OF ADVERSITY ‘Behold the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of bearing the words of the Lord.’ Amos 8:11 I. If adversity tried and sifted men, prosperity tried and sifted them much more.—Where adversity slew its thousands, prosperity slew its tens of thousands. Poets and moralists had dwelt on the sweet uses of adversity: the misuses and abuses of prosperity

Matthew 6:10 — GOD’S WILL IN WORSHIP AND WORK ‘Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.’ Matthew 6:10 Is not this impossible? Is it not impossible that God’s will should ever be done here on earth as it is in heaven? And yet we dare not have a lower ideal, or nothing can be accomplished, either individually or as a Church. I. Grounds of hope.—No

Mark 1:14-15 — THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM ‘Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand.’ Mark 1:14-15 The belief in the coming of some anointed one, to be at once king and prophet, was universal even in the darkest days of Jewish history, however unworthy may have been the conception of his mission and office. And now at a time of deep depression,

Mark 9:41 — ‘WHOSE I AM’ ‘Ye belong to Christ.’ Mark 9:41 Who are they who belong to Christ? I. Those who come to Christ.—So the Saviour said: ‘All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me’ ( John 6:37). You are invited to come just as you are. Are you young? ‘They enter the narrow way easiest who enter

Luke 11:8 — THE FRIEND AT MIDNIGHT ‘Because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.’ Luke 11:8 The parable of the friend at midnight is one of the most striking pictures in the Gospel gallery. It is a picture of importunity—an importunity which you must exercise when you prefer your requests to God. The story suggests certain important reflections.

Luke 23:33 — loud, but it is a loud falsetto, to ears that have heard indeed the voice of the old truth, ‘The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all’; ‘By grace ye have been saved’; ‘Worthy is the Lamb that was slain.’ —Bishop H. C. G. Moule. Illustrations (1) ‘A few years ago some people held an open-air service on a village green in a remote corner of Cambridgeshire, a hamlet where, as it happened, the peasants had been left for a very long time without religious ministry. One of the evangelists had recently

Romans 6:22 — home. If we look heavenward, let us walk heavenward. He Who promises the end in glory will give us strength for the way. If we have our ‘fruit unto sanctification,’ the end will assuredly be ‘eternal life.’ —Prebendary Eardley-Wilmot. Illustrations (1) ‘A number of runaway slaves came to an English settlement in Africa for shelter. When the English company found what these poor people were, they paid the price of every one to his owner, and let them all go free. A missionary belonging to the settlement

Romans 8:19 — THE WAITING CHURCH ‘The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.’ Romans 8:19 What is it that this passage teaches? I. It teaches that the creature, that is to say all creation, lies under a blight, that a cloud has crept between the light of God and His creation. He, at the beginning, made all things very good, but very good

1 Corinthians 10:16 — COMMUNION WITH CHRIST ‘The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?’ 1 Corinthians 10:16 As those to whom this Epistle was sent read St. Paul’s argument, they might or might not agree with the conclusion to which he sought to lead them; they might feel it to be unduly strict, or, at any rate, impracticable; but it is

1 Corinthians 11:11 — THE DIGNITY OF WOMANHOOD ‘Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.’ 1 Corinthians 11:11 Such is a part of St. Paul’s answer to the inquiry which probably ever since men have reasoned at all has been a subject of speculative, if not practical, import. What is the true relation of the woman to the man, and the man to the

1 Corinthians 14:26 — WORDS TO THE LAITY ‘How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things he done unto edifying.’ 1 Corinthians 14:26 I wish to speak to you about the necessity of keeping up certain simple religious forms and observances if we wish to preserve any reality, vitality, and vigour in our religious life. The idea of the Reformers was to give the congregation

1 Corinthians 3:17 — ‘WHICH TEMPLE YE ARE’ ‘For the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.’ 1 Corinthians 3:17 That each one of you is a ‘temple,’ we have St. Paul’s own authority. ‘Know ye not that your body’—each body in itself individually—‘your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?’ The thought seems to be too wonderful to be true. ‘What!

Joshua 6:1-27 — cosas mucho mayores que las que jamás le había prometido a Rahab. Prometió gozo, paz, poder y vida. Ahora ha vencido. Ha llevado cautiva la cautividad. E innumerables hombres pueden decir cómo el Señor triunfante ha cumplido Su palabra. Ilustraciones (1) 'A Israel se le enseñó que Dios puede prescindir del albedrío del hombre, aunque, por regla general, Él amablemente condesciende a usarlo. El hombre nunca es necesario para Dios. “No fue por su propio poder, sino por uno superior, que los israelitas

Philemon 1:22 — ‘ANSWERED PRAYERS’ ‘Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him.’ Acts 12:5 ‘But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.’ Philemon 1:22 The two passages taken together, and considered in the light of subsequent events, cover the whole subject of Divine Answers to

3 John 1:2 — RELIGION AND HEALTH ‘Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.’ 3 John 1:2 St. John’s desire is founded on a reflection of primary importance, namely, that man does not consist of soul only, but rather of body, soul, and spirit. His desire is one in closest harmony with the general will of Almighty God as revealed in the

Revelation 1:7 — BACK TO CHRIST ‘Behold, He cometh.’ Revelation 1:7 These words give us an Advent message. ‘Back to Christ,’ that is the motto of to-day. We commemorate in the Advent season that the Lord has come, that the Lord will come, that the Lord is here. Many have been His comings since He came a child to