Bible Commentaries

Exodus 18:11 — Sé. Ahora estoy más convencido de esta verdad. Jethro instruyó a su familia en estos principios. Los recabitas eran sus descendientes. (1 Paralipomenon ii. 55; Jeremias xxxv.) (Menochius) &mdash- Con orgullo . Hebreo, "porque en lo que hicieron con orgullo, él estaba en contra o por encima de ellos". Se debe suministrar algo. Dios convirtió la sabiduría y los brazos de los egipcios en su propia confusión. (Calmet)

Exodus 2:15 — Madian. Ciudad y país de Arabia, que tomó su nombre de Madián, hijo de Abraham, por Cetura, y fue poblado por su posteridad. (Challoner) &mdash- Hubo, quizás, algunos de los descendientes de Cham, por su hijo Chus, entremezclados con ellos; (Haydock) y, por lo tanto, Aarón reprocha a la esposa de Moisés por ser chusita, Números xii. 1. Jethro era un cineano, descendiente del mismo linaje.

Leviticus 22:3 — Acercamiento, etc. Esto es para darnos a entender, con qué pureza de alma debemos acercarnos al santísimo sacramento, del cual eran figura estas carnes que habían sido ofrecidas en sacrificio. (Challoner) &mdash Muere. Los Rabinos dicen, por las manos de los otros sacerdotes. Los jueces solo pudieron condenarlo a ser azotado. Si su crimen fue secreto, el castigo quedaba en manos de Dios. (Selden, sin. Ii. 1.)

Ezekiel 48:1 — Dan. This division is very different from that of Josue, and was never literally executed, being rather of a mystical nature. The limits are not marked out, as each lot was equal. (Calmet) See chap. xlv. 1., and xlvii. 14. (Haydock) --- By the twelve tribes all the glorified saints are meant. No cities of refuge occur, because in heaven all are perfect, all secure. (St. Jerome) (Worthington)

Daniel 3:2 — Nobles. Literally, "satraps," or, "the king’s domestics." (Septuagint in 1 Esdras viii. 36.) --- Judges, or "governors of provinces." (ib. Theodotion, &c.) --- Captains of the soothsayers. --- Rulers; "tyrants," here denoting treasurers. (Calmet) --- Governors. Literally, "the grandees who were

Numbers 32:41 — Jair nació de Segub, el hijo de Esron, de una hija de Machir, 1 Paralipomenon i. 21. No permaneció en la tribu de Judá, sino que habitó en la de su madre, (Calmet) o tal vez se casó con un descendiente de Machir y obtuvo estas aldeas. (Selden, Suc. C. Xviii.) &mdash- Havoth, significa "un círculo de cabañas o chozas de pastores", en árabe. (Bochart)

Micah 5:8 — Lion. This denotes the fortitude of these first preachers, and their success in their spiritual enterprises. (Challoner) --- The Jews, by leave of Assuerus, defended themselves; and the Machabees became terrible, Esther ix., and 1 Machabees iii. 4. The power of the latter was established, while the efforts of Eupator and of other Syrian persecutors for sixty years, down to Zebina, proved fruitless or destructive to themselves. (Calmet)

Zechariah 10:3 — Goats; the leaders of the people, Jeremias l. 8. (Calmet) --- Vir gregis ipse caper. (Virgil, Eclogues vii.) --- Jason died in exile, Lysimachus was slain in the temple, Alcimus perished miserably, and Menelaus was hurled among ashes, 2 Machabees v. 5., and iv. 39., and xiii. 4., and 1 Machabees ix. 54. --- Battle. The apostates have suffered: God will not abandon his flock, but raises up Mathathias, &c.

Deuteronomy 10:17 — Dioses. Los ídolos no son nada, 1 Corintios viii. 4. Por lo tanto, Theodoret supone que aquí se designa a todos los que tienen autoridad sobre la tierra. Pero admitiendo las falsas nociones de los paganos respecto a sus dioses, aquí se afirma la superioridad del Dios verdadero; (Calmet) y todos, tanto en el cielo como en la tierra, dioses y señores, deben inclinarse ante él. (Haydock)

Mark 7:3 — Often washing, &c.[1] Some would have the Greek to signify unless they wash up to the elbows, but I think without sufficient grounds. (Witham) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Crebo, Greek: ean me pugme. Mr. Bois, prebend of Ely, defends the Latin version, and says Greek: pugme comes from Greek: pukna and Greek: puknos. But Theophylactus would have it to signify, up to the elbows; Greek: achri tou agkonos.

John 16:4 — That when the hour of them shall come[1] , you may remember that I told you. This is both the sense and the construction, by the Greek text, which here determines the construction of the Latin. (Witham) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Ut cum venerit hora eorum, reminiscamini quia Ego dixi vobis, Greek: otan elthe e ora, mnemoneuete auton, &c. where the construction is not hora eorum, but reminiscamini eorum, &c.

1 Corinthians 13:4 — Charity....dealeth not perversely.[1] The Greek word here seems taken from the Latin. St. John Chrysostom expounds it, is not rash, but acteth prudently and considerately. Others, it is not light or inconstant. Others, it braggeth, or vaunteth not, as in the Protestant translation. (Witham) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Non agit perperam, Greek: ou perpereuetai. St. John Chrysostom says, Greek: toutesti ou propeteuetai, non est præceps, aut temeraria.

1 Corinthians 16:2 — On the [1] first day of the week, which is Sunday, and our sabbath, not the Jewish sabbath, as St. John Chrysostom observes, so that before this time, the apostles had appointed the first day of the week for the worship of God. (Witham) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Per unam, that is primam Sabbati, Greek: eis mian sabbaton. St. John Chrysostom, Greek: om. m., toutesti kuriaken, p. 530.

Joshua 14:6 — Jephone fue el padre de Caleb. Esron y Cenez probablemente algunos de sus antepasados, 1 Paralipomenon ii. 18. y Números xxxiii. 12. Lo que Caleb afirma aquí, debe haber sido entregado de boca en boca, a oídos del pueblo, Deuteronomio i. 36. Moisés no declaró que Caleb iba a tener todo el país, sino que entraría en él y poseería los alrededores de Hebrón. (Calmet)

Colossians 1:10 — Worthy of God: Greek: axios tou kuriou. So St. Ambrose and the Greek doctors; or thus, worthily, pleasing God, and this not by faith only, but fruitful in every good work. (Ibid.) --- God, in [1] all things pleasing him. This is the construction of the Latin by the Greek. (Witham) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Ut ambuletis digne Deo per omnia placentes; Greek: axios tou Kuriou eis pasan areskeian.

James 4:1 — Whence are wars [1] and contentions, in all kinds, but from your lusts and disorderly passions, coveting to have and enjoy what you have not, as to pleasures, riches, honours, &c. (Witham) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Unde bella et lites? Greek: polemoi kai machai, as also ver. 2, litigatis et belligeratis, Greek: machesthe, kai polemeite. I see no reason to translate it, by lawsuits and pleadings, as Mr. N.

Judith 15:11 — Chastity, &c. This is not in Syriac, &c., and though, generally speaking, celibacy was not esteemed honourable among the Jews, yet chastity was so much the more admired, as it was more uncommon. A widow was deserving of praise for not lightly entering upon a second marriage. (Calmet) --- Those who abstain from it, were respected, like virgins, by the Romans. (Val. Maxim. ii. 1.)

Letter of Jeremiah 2:14 — Judas. This seems to be the Essene, who with others wrote this epistle; (chap. i. 10.; Worthington) or rather (Haydock) the Machabee, who was as solicitous to preserve the sacred books as Antiochus was to destroy them, 1 Machabees i. 59., and ii. 48. It is said that another assembly met to admit such books into the canon as had been written since the days of Nehemias.

1 Samuel 22:1 — Odollam, a unos dos días de viaje desde Get, (Salien) a nueve millas al este de Eleutheropolis, en la tribu de Judá. (Eusebio) (Calmet) &mdash Allá, para evitar la furia de Saúl, que cayó tan pesadamente sobre los sacerdotes, ver. 16. Los hijos más belicosos de Gad también vinieron aquí, para unirse a David, 1 Paralipomenon xii. 8. (Abulensis) (Salien, el año del mundo 2973.)

1 Samuel 4:4 — Ark. Sobre esta extraordinaria emergencia lo consideraron lícito. (Abulensis, q. 6.) &mdash Querubines. La Escritura a menudo representa a Dios de esta manera, Éxodo xxv. 22., Salmo xvii. 10., y Ezechiel x. 1. La similitud de los judíos atribuía cuerpos a los ángeles, pero para indicar que no eran como aquellos con los que estamos familiarizados, los llamaron querubines, o figuras complejas e inusuales. (Calmet)