Bible Commentaries

Genesis 4:19 — sentencia de condenación sobre él, como lo han hecho algunos protestantes. hecho, después de los maniqueos. Por eso los padres defienden a uno y rechazan al otro con aborrecimiento. (Haydock) &mdash- Tertuliano (Monog. C. 5.) y San Jerónimo, contra Jovin. 1, dice: "Lamec, ante todo, un sanguinario asesino, dividió una carne entre dos esposas". Nunca fue legal, dice el Papa Inocencio III. contra Gaudemus, que cualquiera tenga muchas esposas a la vez, a menos que se le dé permiso por revelación divina; "y

2 Kings 3:27 — Wall, a Chamos, el ídolo de Moab; (Menochius) oa Moloc, para apaciguar la ira de los dioses. ¡Horrible ceguera! Los paganos creían que lo más precioso debería ser sacrificado en peligros muy inminentes. (Philo Biblius, siguiendo a Eusebio, præp. Iv. 16.) &mdash- Los Ph œnicians ofrecieron tales víctimas a Saturno. Muchos se dedicaron a la muerte por la seguridad de la república romana; y algunos estaban dispuestos a hacerlo, para preservar las vidas de Calígula y Nerón, antes de que hubieran dado

Leviticus 23:44 — las fiestas cristianas, en honor de nuestro Señor y sus santos, en lugar de las que Dios designó para los judíos, ya sea por él mismo o por sus ministros: porque encontramos que algunas fueron instituidas después de la época de Moisés. , (Ester ix., Y 1 Macabeos iv.) Y estos fueron sancionados por la observancia de Cristo mismo, Era la fiesta de la dedicación, y Jesús caminó en el templo, etc., Juan x. 22-23. (Worthington)

Leviticus 25:8 — en él el año del jubileo anterior, ya que le damos cinco años a la olimpiada y ocho días a la semana, aunque el primero consta sólo de cuatro años, y el último de siete días. (Rader; Scaliger; & c.) Pero otros deciden por el quincuagésimo año, ver. 10. (Filón; Josefo, [Antigüedades] iii. 10; San Agustín, q. 92 .; Salien; & c.) (Calmet) &mdash Usher coloca el primero en el año del mundo 2609, 49 años después de la partición de la tierra por Josué en 2560: Salien data 50 años desde la entrada (ver. 2,)

Matthew 16:16 — anointed and consecrated to God: Greek: o vios, the Son, not by grace only, or an adoptive filiation like prophets, to whom Christ is here opposed, but by natural filiation, and in a manner that distinguishes him from all created beings. --- Thou art[1] Christ, the Son of the living God, not by grace only, or by adoption, as saints are the sons of God, but by nature, and from all eternity, the true Son of the living God. (Witham) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Tu es Christus, Filius

Matthew 16:4 — this: you know how to judge of the weather from observation, and cannot you then know the certain signs so often promised, and now completed in my coming? The signs of this event were, the taking away the sceptre from the tribe of Juda. (Genesis xxxix. 10.) The completion of the 70 weeks of years of Daniel ix. 25, amounting to 490 years, which were now on the eve of being completed. The miracles of Jesus Christ, as the curing of the blind, the lame, the deaf and dumb, foretold by Isaias xxxv. 5. and

Matthew 24:5 — For many will come. One of these was Simon Magus, who in the Acts (chap. viii. ver. 10.) is mentioned as calling himself the power of God; hence the apostle St. John (1 epistle ii. 18,) says, and as you have heard that Antichrist cometh, even now there are become many Antichrists. By Antichrists I understand heretics, who, under the

Deuteronomy 33:25 — Hierro y bronce, para denotar la disposición guerrera de esta tribu. Golías [Goliat], y los héroes antes de Troya, llevaban botas de bronce, 1 Reyes xvii. 6. (Homero) &mdash Pero esta costumbre no era peculiar de los soldados. Personas de todas las descripciones hacían lo mismo, ya sea para adornar o para hacer que sus sandalias duraran más. Empédocles llevaba latón en la suela de sus sandalias;

Luke 3:3 — novæ         Fuit salutis, nam sancto in flumine         Veterum pictas lavit errorum notas. The fallacy of this sentiment, now universally exploded, may be detected from two passages of Scripture: 1. Where John himself declares that he does not baptize with the Holy Ghost; and secondly, in the Acts, (Chap. xix) where St. Paul orders those who had only been baptized by John, and had not heard of the Holy Ghost, to be rebaptized. We must then conclude,

John 17:2 — Power over all flesh, that he may give life everlasting to all[1] whom thou hast given him. He speaks of himself, as made man, and the Redeemer of mankind. If we ask, who are they, who in this sense are said to be given to Christ: it is true, only the elect, or predestined, are given by a special and uncommon mercy.

Acts 13:3 — hands to St. Peter:     ----------Quem mox sacravit euntem      Imposita Petrus ille manu, cui sermo magistri      Omnia posse dedit.---------- --- See his printed poems in 4to. Venice, an. 1502. Arator was sent in quality of ambassador from Athalaric to the emperor Justinian. --- Following the practice of the apostles, the Church of God ordains a solemn and general fast on the four public times for ordination, the ember days, as a necessary

Acts 2:24 — Having loosed the sorrows[2] of hell, &c. In the ordinary Greek copies, of death. As to the sense of this place, 1. It is certain Christ suffered the pains and pangs of a violent death. 2. That his soul suffered no pains after death, nor in any place called hell. 3. We believe, as in the Apostles’ Creed, that his blessed soul descended into hell, that is,

1 Corinthians 7:2 — But because of fornication, let every man have, and live with his own wife, [1] and not leave her, nor dismiss her. Take notice, that St. Paul speaks these words to those that are already married, and speaks not of the unmarried till the 8th verse. He does not then here exhort every one to marry, but admonishes married persons

Ephesians 1:3 — beatitude. St. Paul distinguishes the blessings which we receive in Jesus Christ from those bestowed upon the Jews, which were temporal and limited to this earth. (Calmet; Challoner) With all spiritual blessings in heavenly places: literally, in heavenlies,[1] or celestials, which some expound and translate, in heavenly things; but this being expressed just before by spiritual blessings, it rather seems to be understood of the glory prepared for us un heaven, or in the heavenly mansions; in which sense it

Hebrews 1:1 — At different times,[1] and in many ways. The first word signifies that God revealed the incarnation of his Son, as it were, by parcels, and by degrees, at different times, and to different persons, to Adam, to Abraham, to Moses, to David, &c. The latter word expresseth

Revelation 2:12-17 — throne of Satan. It is only said, that the bishop lives where this satanical seat is, that he had not denied the faith, even under the persecution, when St. Antipas suffered martyrdom, of whom see Tillemont in the persecution under Domitian, tom. ii, p. 119, and note 523; and Bollandus, April 11th; though the acts themselves be not of great authority. --- Thou hast them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaites, which is compared to that of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a scandal before the children

Revelation 2:20 — Greek: ten gunaika Iezabel. Dr. Wells, in his amendments to the Protestant translation, has put thy wife, and in the Greek Greek: gunaika sou which he says is found in the Alexandrian and several other manuscripts. But neither the Oxford edition of 1675, nor that at Amsterdam of 1711, take notice of this reading in any one manuscript. As for that one manuscript of Alexandria, I guess by Walton’s Polyglot, that it cannot well be read in that place. And though it is likely that the author of

1 Samuel 13:19 — que tan recientemente había desconcertado a los amonitas, seguramente no carecía de armas. Pero la mayoría de ellos se habían retirado (Haydock) y los que acompañaban al rey podían confiar principalmente en su pericia en el uso de la honda, Jueces xx. 16. (Menochius) &mdash- Los valientes que vinieron a unirse a David, son elogiados por este motivo, así como por disparar con arco y flecha, 1 Paralipomenon xii. 2. También se han librado batallas furiosas con estacas afiladas, quemadas en el final, (Virgilio,

1 Samuel 25:1 — Samuel murió. Los Rabinos dicen que cuatro meses antes que Saúl. (Seder, olam 13.) (Tirinus) &mdash Sobre todos estos puntos los sabios están divididos, cap. vii. 15. Son más unánimes en elogiar (Haydock) la conducta de este estadista santísimo. Grocio lo compara con Arístides. (Calmet) &mdash Tanto él como su madre son figuras

1 Samuel 7:1 — En Gabaa. Es decir, en la colina, para Gabaa significa una colina. (Challoner) (1 Paralipomenon xiii. 6.) &mdash Abinadab era un levita de reconocida virtud. (Menochius) &mdash- La gente de esta ciudad sabía que el arca era una fuente de bendiciones para quienes la recibían con respeto; y que los betsamitas habían sido castigados